Comparative Legal History

Aims & Scope

Comparative Legal History is an international and comparative review of law and history.

Articles will explore both 'internal' legal history (doctrinal and disciplinary developments in the law) and 'external' legal history (legal ideas and institutions in wider contexts).

Rooted in the complexity of the various Western legal traditions worldwide, the journal will also investigate other laws and customs from around the globe.

Comparisons may be either temporal or geographical and both legal and other law-like normative traditions will be considered.

Scholarship on comparative and trans-national historiography, including trans-disciplinary approaches, is particularly welcome.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.5
2024	0.60

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.104

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q4

h-index

Year	Value
2024	6

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	29238

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	9

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Immemorial (and native) customs in early modernity: Europe and the Americas

  Citation: 35

  Authors: Tamar

• What is global legal history?

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Thomas

• Legal traditions: A dialogue between comparative law and comparative legal history

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Thomas

• Heikki ES Mattila, <i>Comparative Legal Linguistics: Language of Law, Latin and Modern Lingua Francas</i>

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Merike

• The theory and practice of indigenous dispossession in the late nineteenth century: the Saami in the far north of Europe and the legal history of colonialism

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Kaius

• Law and Commerce: The Evolution of Codified Business Law in Europe

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Johannes W

• Law between Revolution and Tradition: Russian and Finnish Revolutionary Legal Acts, 1917–18

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Tatiana, Jukka

• Do you know the ninth commandment? Tensions of the oath in Dutch colonial Sri Lanka

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Nadeera

• Cultural and legal transfer in Napoleonic Europe: codification of Dutch civil law as a cross-national process

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Martijn

• From sovereignty to modernity: revisiting the Colebrooke-Cameron Reforms – transforming the Buddhist and colonial imaginary in nineteenth-century Ceylon

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Niranjan, Roshan De Silva, Lee

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