With the January content release, we added 13 new journals, all of which are active serials that cover subjects such as Human Rights Law, Gender and the Law, International Law, and more. Keep reading to learn about our latest additions, including titles from publishers such as Taylor & Francis and the American Bar Association!
1. Journal Law Review of Public Sector
2021-2022
Published by the Institute for the Development of Public Sector Law
Subjects: Taxation, Contracts, Insurance Law
The Journal Law Review of Public Sector was established in 2021 as an open-access journal of the Institute for the Development of Public Sector Law. The idea behind the journal is to encourage critical analysis and to improve the quality of legal periodicals and legal research with reliable and up-to-date information from domestic or comparative and international law, as well as to be a forum for legal debates. The editorial board of the journal consists of prominent experts in the field of public law and invites all researchers to submit their papers on a wide range of public sector legal topics in Serbian or another language. Authors can submit scientific articles, comments on legislative and judicial practice, legal polemics, and book reviews.
2. International Journal of Human Rights
Full Text: Vols. 1-21 (1997-2017)
Indexed: Vols. 1-27#1 (1997-2023)
Published by Taylor & Francis
Subjects: Human Rights Law; International Law, Foreign Affairs, Gender and the Law
The International Journal of Human Rights covers an exceptionally broad spectrum of human rights issues: human rights and the law, race, religion, gender, children, class, refugees, and immigration. In addition to these general areas, the journal publishes articles and reports on the human rights aspects of: genocide, torture, capital punishment, and the laws of war and war crimes. To encourage debate, the editors publish Forum pieces and discussion papers from authoritative writers in the field. They also welcome comments, reflections, thematic essays, and review articles and critical surveys of the literature.
3. Hungarian Journal of African Studies
Vols. 1-16#2 (2007-2022)
Published by University of Pecs, Africa Research Centre
Subjects: Legal History; Human Rights Law; Roman Law; Countries, Areas, and Regions
Since its launch in 2007, the Hungarian Journal of African Studies [Afrika Tanulmanyok] has been published minimum three times annually as an interdisciplinary scientific outlet for African Studies. Every year since 2018, fully English-language issues with quality scientific papers and field reports have been added to the English-abstracted Hungarian-language volumes. The journal focuses on intriguing topics about the past and present of African societies, as well as looks at the place and possible roles of African actors in the changing international system of the 21st century. From 2021 on, the renewed HJAS intends to become one of the acclaimed journals edited from East-Central Europe, published at least twice in Hungarian, and once in English. The HJAS seeks quality research articles, field reports and book reviews, which can add to our better understanding of the intriguing set up of the multi-colored and complex societal, economic, political and cultural processes and actors of the African continent.
4. African Journal of Law and Human Rights
Vols. 1-6#1 (2017-2022)
Published by Nnamdi Azikiwe University
Subjects: Human Rights Law, Gender and the Law, Courts, International Law
African Journal of Law and Human Rights (AJLHR) has the objective of publishing peer-reviewed papers dealing strictly with issues on law and human rights which are of relevance to Africa, Africans, and scholars on African issues. AJLHR provides a forum for legal scholars and jurists to report research findings for policy making through innovative and advanced methodologies. It appears once a year in June, and published online and in print. AJLHR is a manual for policy makers and legislators, jurists, legal practitioners, law and human rights enforcement agents, peace builders, academics, law students, and others.
5. Collection of Papers Actualities of Civil and Commercial Law and Legal Practice
2003-2022
Published by University of Mostar, Faculty of Law
Subjects: Criminal Law and Procedure, Insurance Law, Human Rights Law
Collection of papers “Actualities of civil and commercial legislation and legal practice” publishes scientific and professional papers in the field of theory and practice of civil and commercial law on the occasion of International Conference with the same name, held annually. It is a traditional Conference that brings together eminent legal experts, scientists, and practitioners in the field of civil and commercial law and legal practice from several countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia). Furthermore, this Conference offers attractive round tables that combine theory and practice, scientists and practitioners, and serves the implementation of many projects and the adoption of new legislation.
6. Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta
Vols. 1-7 (2010-2021)
Published by University Vitez, Faculty of Law
Subjects: Criminal Law and Procedure, Foreign Affairs, Insurance Law, Human Rights Law
Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta, or Proceedings of the Faculty of Law, promotes scientific research in all areas of law (legal theory and practice) and other associated social sciences. Edited in accordance with highest academic standards by the distinguished editorial and international advisory board, proceedings are published once a year and are indexed in the C.E.E.O.L. (Central and Eastern European Online Library) database. The journal is double-blind peer-edited.
7. African Journal of Criminal Law and Jurisprudence
Vols. 1-7 (2016-2022)
Published by Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Faculty of Law
Subjects: Criminal Law and Procedure, International Law, Crimes against the Person, Courts
African Journal of Criminal Law and Jurisprudence (AFJCLJ) has the objective of publishing peer-reviewed papers dealing strictly with issues on criminal law and criminal jurisprudence which are of relevance to Africa, Africans, and scholars of Africa. AFJCLJ is published annually in September. It appears online and in print. It provides a forum for legal scholars and jurists to report research findings for policy making through innovative and advanced methodologies.
8. African Customary and Religious Law Review
Vols. 1-3 (2020-2022)
Published by Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Faculty of Law
Subjects: Gender and the Law, Jurisprudence, Customary Law, Human Rights Law
African Customary and Religious Law Review (ACARELAR) aims at publishing peer-reviewed papers dealing with issues of customary and religious laws which are of relevance to Africa, Africans, and scholars of Africa. It provides a forum for scholars to report research findings in indigenous and religious laws and their applications towards peaceful harmony, peaceful co-existence, and human development in the light of autochthonous contexts. ACARELAR appears once in a year in March. The Review is published online and in print, and is abstracted and indexed with Nigerian Journals Online.
9. International Journal of Law and Clinical Legal Education
Vols. 1-3 (2020-2022)
Published by Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Faculty of Law
Subjects: Gender and the Law, Courts, Human Rights Law, International Law
International Journal of Law and Clinical Legal Education (IJOLACLE) is an annual double blind peer reviewed open access journal devoted to issues of law and lawyering, legal practice and procedure, clinical teaching and legal education generally. Its aim is to be a collection of well-researched and dense materials useful mainly to law students, law teachers, legal practitioners, law makers, and judicial officers. IJOLACLE publishes a range of scholarly papers comprising reviewed articles, practice reports, procedures, law teaching practice, and case comments/reviews. IJOLACLE appears once in a year in May. The Journal is published online and in print, and is abstracted and indexed with Nigerian Journals online.
10. International Journal of Comparative Law and Legal Philosophy
Vols. 1-4#1 (2019-2022)
Published by Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Faculty of Law
Subjects: International Law, Human Rights Law, Gender and the Law, Jurisprudence
International Journal of Comparative Law and Legal Philosophy (IJOCLLEP) is a peer-blind-reviewed periodical that provides a dynamic platform for dissemination of ideas on comparative law and philosophy of law. As it is hard in our contemporary globalized world to confine developments in law to one jurisdiction and isolate them from another, the Journal is a podium for reports on developments in the field of comparative law from all parts of the world. Also a philosophy of law forum, IJOCLLEP provides an opportunity for spread of the results of analysis of transnational legal history and theory, private international law/conflict of laws, and the study of legal systems, cultures, and traditions. The Journal reports debates on and critiques of fundamental concepts and principles of law employing pragmatic approach, as it were, to developmental problems. IJOCLLEP seeks papers based on doctrinal or empirical or mixed research methodologies. The Journal is abstracted and indexed with Nigerian Journals Online. IJOCLLEP appears three times a year in January, May, and September.
11. International Review of Law and Jurisprudence
Vols. 1-4#2 (2019-2022)
Published by Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Faculty of Law
Subjects: International Law, Human Rights Law, Jurisprudence, Government
International Review of Law and Jurisprudence (IRLJ) is a scholarly, peer-reviewed and fully refereed tri-annual journal that publishes high-quality research papers in law and jurisprudence including socio-legal issues of contemporary significance. It appears in January, May and September. The Review is abstracted and indexed with Nigerian Journals Online. IRLJ seeks papers based on doctrinal or empirical or mixed research methodologies. It provides a forum for theoretical cum policy analysis, debate and critique aimed at solving developmental problems. The Review is also dedicated to presenting and reporting research findings on system-wide trends on law and jurisprudence, international or municipal.
12. Washington Quarterly
Full Text: Vols. 1-39 (1978-2017)
Indexed: Vols. 1-45#2 (1978-2022)
Published by Taylor & Francis
Subjects: War, Foreign Affairs, International Law, Politics
Hosted by GW’s Elliott School of International Affairs and published by Taylor & Francis, TWQ is a global security affairs journal providing diverse perspectives on strategic changes, trends, and relations around the world and their public policy implications. It addresses topics such as the future of global order and the U.S. role in the world; the role of China, India, and other rising powers; nuclear security challenges including among new, aspiring, or great nuclear powers; democracy’s geopolitical future—its strengths, weaknesses, and prospects, sanctions and other means of coercion in an interdependent world; the information contest and the security implications of disinformation; and transnational security threats such as climate change, pandemics, and terrorism.
13. Year in Review: An Annual Survey of International Legal Developments and Publications of the ABA/Section of International Law
Vols. 47-55 (2013-2021); Previously included as an issue of The International Lawyer
Published by the American Bar Association
Subjects: International Law, Business and the Law, International Trade and the Law
Note: This journal was previously published as part of The International Lawyer. With volume 47, published in 2013, it became a separate journal, Year in Review. Recent volumes of this journal are available to subscribers of the ABA Law Library Collection Periodicals database in HeinOnline.
The Year in Review, as its name suggests, is an annual survey of the law from around the world. On average, thirty to forty Committees of the ABA/SIL contribute to the publication and capture the germane legal developments, key pieces of legislation, and landmark decisions that help to shape the legal tapestry of their respective countries and areas of interest. Catering to the ABA/SIL membership and others, The YIR shares in the same readership as TIL, and is the most widely distributed U.S. international law survey in the world, enjoying subscriptions of approximately 22,000 readers in more than 90 countries. Submissions are made annually by Committee Editors on behalf of their respective ABA/SIL Committees.
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