The Journal of Law and Economics

The Journal of Law and Economics is an academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press. It publishes articles on the economic analysis of regulation and the behavior of regulated firms, the political economy of legislation and legislative processes, law and finance, corporate finance and governance, and industrial organization. The journal is sponsored by the University of Chicago Law School.

The Journal of Law and Economics

Discipline	Law and economics
Language	English
Edited by	Dennis W. Carlton, Dhammika Dharmapala, John P. Gould, Richard Holden, Anup Malani, Sam Peltzman, Christopher Snyder
Publication details
History	1958–present
Publisher	University of Chicago Press for the University of Chicago Law School (United States)
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	0.29 (2017)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
Bluebook	J.L. & Econ.
ISO 4	J. Law Econ.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	JLLEA7
ISSN	0022-2186 (print) 1537-5285 (web)
LCCN	59001643
JSTOR	00222186
OCLC no.	473558229
Links
Journal homepage

The journal was founded by Aaron Director at the University of Chicago in 1958, and Ronald Coase joined him later as the co-editor.^[1][2] The journal played an important role in the formation of the field Law and Economics.^[1]