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 [email protected] , 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 [email protected] , or by snail mail to Professor Marco Wan, Faculty of Law, 10th Floor, Cheng Yu Tung Building, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong.
Journal metrics
Usage
41K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
0.4 (2023) Impact Factor
0.4 (2023) 5 year IF
0.8 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
0.000 (2023) SNIP
0.109 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
36 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
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We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside
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addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and
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Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year
and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of
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Usage:
the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
General Editors Angela Condello Laurent de Sutter Debolina Dutta Daniela Gandorfer Cecilia Gebruers Andrew Majeske Mark Sanders Nan Seuffert Adam Sitze Simon Stern Julie Suk Katrin Trüstedt Richard H. Weisberg
Senior Editor Andrea Terese Timpone
Co-Editors Barton Beebe Marci Hamilton Michael E. Herz Arthur J. Jacobson Leslie S. Newman Michael Pantazakos Monroe E. Price Michel Rosenfeld Lynn Wishart
Editorial Board Maria Aristodemou Milner S. Ball Jonathan Bush Marianne Constable Drucilla Cornell Maksymilian Del Mar Stanley E. Fish Adam Gearey Paul Gewirtz David Haber Michael Hancher Geoffrey H. Hartman Anselm Haverkamp Susan Heinzelman W.W. Holdheim Lorna Hutson Christopher Hutton Judith Koffler Daniel Kornstein Sanford Levinson William MacNeil Desmond Manderson Shaun McVeigh John Jay Osborn, Jr. Simon Petch Joseph Pugliese David A.J. Richards Michael Richmond Barrie Stavis Terry Threadgold Mariana Valverde Scott Veitch Ian Ward Robin West James Boyd White
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