Journal profile · Social Sciences-Law
Transnational Legal Theory
ISSN 2041-4005 · eISSN 2041-4013 · Taylor & Francis
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Transnational Legal Theory: subscription journal; APC charged, amount not published; median 251 days to acceptance (57 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 29% (journal website); 33 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Transnational Legal Theory is published by Taylor & Francis. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are International Law and Human Rights, Comparative and International Law Studies and Evolving Legal Systems and Governance, together about 41.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations and Law. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Transnational Legal Theory (TLT) is a refereed law review with double anonymized peer-review, published four times a year. It features full length articles, symposia, comments on current developments, and book reviews. Since its launch in 2010, TLT has been the flagship forum for a critical and timely scholarly engagement with law’s position in processes of globalisation. Combing an “inward” and an “outward” perspective, the Journal is a platform for research that situates domestic fields of law in their evolving transnational social, cultural, economic and environmental contexts and for scholarship that studies the impact of international law on local settings. TLT scholarship is both theoretical and practical, comparative and interdisciplinary. The Journal welcomes interventions by academics, practitioners and legal activists in continuing and emerging debates in legal, post-colonial and social theory, commentary on governance trends and engagements with shifting boundaries between public and private law frameworks, alternative methodologies and competing epistemologies, including those between the Global North and the Global South. TLT is committed to providing a forum for critical examinations of the role of law in creating and maintaining our contemporary world, as well as for scholarship that pursues new strategies and interventions to transform societies and their legal institutions. In its second decade, TLT particularly welcomes legal research that is contextualised by the predominant facets of globalisation, including gender and sexuality, race, (post-)coloniality, indigeneity, development, food security, labour, natural resources, security and technology. Methodologically, the journal is open to submissions working from a variety of disciplinary approaches, including philosophical, doctrinal, sociological, anthropological, historical, international relations and political economy approaches to law.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Law
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- International Law and Human RightsSocial Sciences18.3%
- Comparative and International Law StudiesSocial Sciences12%
- Evolving Legal Systems and GovernanceSocial Sciences10.9%
- Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studiesSocial Sciences9.1%
- Corporate Law and Human RightsBusiness, Management and Accounting4.7%
- Environmental law and policySocial Sciences4.4%
- International Environmental Law and PoliciesEnvironmental Science3.7%
- European and International Law StudiesSocial Sciences3.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | Q2 | 462/1162 | 60th |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- CiteScore Q2 · 2025
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
ScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), Hein On-LinePublisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.6LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 1.6Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.67LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.67Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.8LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.8Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 31OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 94OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.06OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 96,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 464 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 31 | 14 | 283 |
| 2025 | 33 | 23 | 275 |
| 2024 | 25 | 19 | 302 |
| 2023 | 21 | 13 | 291 |
| 2022 | 21 | 11 | 267 |
| 2021 | 25 | 17 | 409 |
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 · to
251 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 189 days – 326 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 38 days (57 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 304 days
- Sample
- 57 articles with submission and acceptance dates (66 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 29%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 12 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 121 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 13 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
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
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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)
Article types accepted2
- book reviewBook Review | Published online: 19 Sep 2026Length not stated
- research articleResearch Article | Published online: 16 Sep 2026Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Hybrid open access Model summary
Transnational Legal Theory 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 …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Double anonymized peer review Model summary
Transnational Legal Theory (TLT) is a refereed law review with double anonymized peer-review, published four times a year.
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.
Before you submit
Five checks before submitting to Transnational Legal Theory
- 1ScopeRecent output centres on International Law and Human Rights, Comparative and International Law Studies.Check scope
- 2Article type and formatPrepare text, figures and references as the author guidelines ask.Submission rules
- 3English languagePolish grammar and academic style before you submit: it lowers the risk of rejection for language and improves your chances of acceptance.
- 4FeesYes, amount not published (Publisher website)Fee details
- 5Expected review time251 days · Median, submission to acceptance · 57 articles, last 24 months · CrossrefReview data
The checks are built from this page's data.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 2041-4005
- Electronic ISSN
- 2041-4013
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 17, Issue 2 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Transnational Legal Theory
How long does peer review take at Transnational Legal Theory?
Based on the dates recorded on 57 articles published between November 2024 and November 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 251 days (interquartile range 189–326 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 29%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index Transnational Legal Theory?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Transnational Legal Theory is indexed in Scopus.
Is Transnational Legal Theory open access, and what is the APC?
Transnational Legal Theory is a subscription journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .