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.
Journal metrics
Usage
48K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
2.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.000 (2023) SNIP
0.216 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
35 days avg. from submission to first
decision
13 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
21% acceptance rate
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quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it
should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to
support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside
other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its
readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In
addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and
never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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
the following metrics
(find out why).
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.
Co-Editors Peer Zumbansen -Mcgill University Phillip M. Paiement -Tilburg University
Founding Editor Craig Scott -Osgoode Hall Law School
Editorial Committee
Marc Amstutz -Fribourg Samantha Besson -Fribourg Amar Bhatia -Canada Christine Chinkin- LSE Grainne de Burca -NYU Cecile Fabre -Oxford Michael Giudice -York Luis Gordillo -Deusto Leslie Green -Oxford & Queen's Florian Hoffmann -LSE Robert Howse -NYU Ivana Isailovic - University of Amsterdam Martti Koskenniemi -Helsinki Philip Liste -Germany Alejandro Lorite Escorihuela -AUC Hengameh Saberi -Osgoode Gavin Sullivan - University of Edinburgh Francois Tanguay-Renaud -Osgoode
Board of Editors
Abdullahi An-Na'im - Emory Kathy Bowrey -New South Wales Ruth Buchanan -Osgoode Albert Chen -Hong Kong Carlos Correa -Buenos Aires Julie Dickson -Oxford Antony Duff -Stirling Benedict Kingsbury -NYU Ho Hock Lai -Singapore David Lefkowitz -Richmond Jeff McMahan -Rutgers Susan Marks -LSE Larry May -Vanderbilt Horatia Muir Watt -HE Sciences Po. Anne Orford -Melbourne Balakrishnan Rajagopal -MIT Shalini Randeria -Zurich Gunther Teubner -Goethe-Frankfurt Robert Wai -Osgoode Jeremy Waldron -NYU & Oxford Neil Walker -Edinburgh Joseph Weiler -NYU
Abstracting and indexing
Transnational Legal Theory is currently abstracted/indexed in: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), Hein On-Line.
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