Journal of Law, Governance and Public Administration
Covers legal scholarship, governance, regulation, public administration and institutional practice across jurisdictions. Research should identify the legal or policy question, specify relevant sources and jurisdiction, and make its interpretive or empirical method traceable.
Journal aim and scope
The journal aims to publish scholarship that advances understanding of law, governance and public institutions. It welcomes doctrinal, comparative, empirical and interdisciplinary research when the legal or institutional contribution is explicit and sources and methods are sufficiently transparent for scholarly assessment. The central contribution should fit at least one of the journal’s academic sections and be meaningful to readers in law, governance and public administration.
Suitable approaches include doctrinal analysis, comparative law, legal history, regulation studies, policy analysis and empirical legal research. Authors should identify primary and secondary sources, explain case or jurisdiction selection and address the limits of the legal framework or data examined. Authors should define the research question, connect the approach to the question, describe sources or materials and analytical choices, and provide enough information for critical assessment. Interdisciplinary work is welcome when its relevance to the journal is clear and the methods used for each component are explained.
Interpretations and claims should follow from the reported evidence. Authors should identify uncertainty, limitations and alternative explanations where relevant, and distinguish demonstrated results from implications or future work. Studies involving people, animals, sensitive data or protected material should describe applicable ethics, consent, privacy and permissions.
Legal commentary without engagement with relevant sources, policy claims without analysis, and comparative conclusions that ignore jurisdictional or institutional context fall outside scope. Manuscripts outside the listed sections or lacking an assessable scholarly contribution may be declined at editorial screening. The section descriptions below provide more detailed guidance on topic fit.
Academic sections
The scope is organized into named sections so authors can identify the closest disciplinary route. Review each section description before selecting a journal.
Article types
Article type does not by itself determine suitability. The manuscript must fit the journal’s subject scope and meet the relevant standards for evidence, reporting, ethics and transparency.