Journal profile · LITERATURE
Law & Literature
ISSN 1535-685X · eISSN 1541-2601 · Taylor & Francis
Law & Literature: CAS Zone 3 · Literature (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.3 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; 22 articles in 2025; indexed in AHCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Law & Literature is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 3 of Literature in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Law in Society and Culture, Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies and Legal Education and Practice Innovations, together about 39.8% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Law and Literature was founded in 1988 as the journal of the Law and Literature movement. It has since become the leading interdisciplinary law journal directed to law and the arts, with a specific focus on critical theory, historical inquiry, and literary expression in its diverse media and forms. It welcomes articles examining intersections between literary and legal traditions, and provides a forum for reconsidering disciplinary boundaries and categories. Recent and upcoming issues include articles on law and film, Nelson Mandela, literature and privacy, Shakespeare and the law, Hauntology and intellectual property, the rhetoric of closing statements, Tiberius and legal fiction, the jurisprudence of visual art, Yugoslav literature and censorship, Don Quixote as critique of law, narrative forms and much more. Contributions to the journal have come from Stanley Fish, Cornelia Vismann, Laurent de Sutter, Bernhard Schlink, Andrew Counter, Julie Stone Peters, Barton Beebe, Anselm Haverkamp, Desmond Manderson, Maria Aristodemou, James Boyd White, and Paul Raffield, and include translations of continental and Latin American literary and legal scholars. Law and Literature is edited by Professor Marco Wan mwan@hku.hk , the Executive Editor and General Editors, with the support of an expansive international Editorial Board, and appears three times a year. The journal is open to submissions in any domain of law and the arts; published articles have undergone editorial screening and anonymized peer review. Submissions should be sent in Word to Professor Marco Wan at mwan@hku.hk , or by snail mail to Professor Marco Wan, Faculty of Law, 10th Floor, Cheng Yu Tung Building, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): LITERATURE
Editor-in-chief Marco WanPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Law in Society and CultureSocial Sciences27.5%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance6.7%
- Legal Education and Practice InnovationsSocial Sciences5.6%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering5.2%
- American Constitutional Law and PoliticsSocial Sciences5.1%
- Legal case studies and regulationsSocial Sciences4.4%
- Posthumanist Ethics and ActivismSocial Sciences4.3%
- History of Science and MedicineArts and Humanities4.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Literature Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Literature | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Literature | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Literature Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Literature | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Literature | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Literature Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Literature | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Literature | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
AHCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 0.3Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 0.4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.1LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 1.1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.13LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.13Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.45LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.45Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 23OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 68OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.23OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 17.65%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 18LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 50,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,630 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 14 | 6 | 0 |
| 2025 | 22 | 8 | 1 |
| 2024 | 37 | 10 | 16 |
| 2023 | 29 | 9 | 20 |
| 2022 | 23 | 10 | 19 |
| 2021 | 48 | 9 | 75 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref
Not usableThis publisher's "received" date is mostly when the revised manuscript arrived (25% of articles were "accepted" within 3 days), so it cannot measure review time
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Law & Literature is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the discoverability and reader…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Editorial screening and anonymized peer review Model summary
The journal is open to submissions in any domain of law and the arts; published articles have undergone editorial screening and anonymized peer review.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 1535-685X
- Electronic ISSN
- 1541-2601
- Society / sponsor
- Cardozo School of Law
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 38, Issue 2 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Law & Literature
What CAS zone is Law & Literature in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Law & Literature is in Zone 3 of Literature, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Literature. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Literature. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Law & Literature?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 0.3 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 1.1, h-index 23.
Which databases index Law & Literature?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Law & Literature is indexed in AHCI and Scopus.
Is Law & Literature open access, and what is the APC?
Law & Literature is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .