The Journal of Legal Studies

The Journal of Legal Studies is a law journal published by the University of Chicago Press focusing on interdisciplinary academic research in law and legal institutions.

The Journal of Legal Studies

Discipline	Law
Language	English
Edited by	Adriana Z. Robertson and Sonja B. Starr
Publication details
History	1972-present
Publisher	University of Chicago Press for the University of Chicago Law School (United States)
Frequency	Biannually
Impact factor	1.143 (2017)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
Bluebook	J. Legal Stud.
ISO 4	J. Leg. Stud.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0047-2530 (print) 1537-5366 (web)
JSTOR	00472530
OCLC no.	1754648
Links
Journal homepage Online access

It emphasizes social science approaches, especially those of economics, political science, and psychology. The journal was established in 1972. Richard Posner was a founding editor.^[1] The current editors are Adriana Z. Robertson and Sonja B. Starr.^[2]