Law and Literature

Aims & Scope

Law and Literature was founded in 1988 as the journal of the Law and Literature movement.

It has since become the leading interdisciplinary law journal directed to law and the arts, with a specific focus on critical theory, historical inquiry, and literary expression in its diverse media and forms.

It welcomes articles examining intersections between literary and legal traditions, and provides a forum for reconsidering disciplinary boundaries and categories.

Recent and upcoming issues include articles on law and film, Nelson Mandela, literature and privacy, Shakespeare and the law, Hauntology and intellectual property, the rhetoric of closing statements, Tiberius and legal fiction, the jurisprudence of visual art, Yugoslav literature and censorship, Don Quixote as critique of law, narrative forms and much more.

Contributions to the journal have come from Stanley Fish, Cornelia Vismann, Laurent de Sutter, Bernhard Schlink, Andrew Counter, Julie Stone Peters, Barton Beebe, Anselm Haverkamp, Desmond Manderson, Maria Aristodemou, James Boyd White, and Paul Raffield, and include translations of continental and Latin American literary and legal scholars.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.5

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q4

h-index

Year	Value
2024	16

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	25743

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	39

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.135

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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 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.

• Slavery as Contract:<i>Betty's Case</i>and the Question of Freedom

  Citation: 56

  Authors: Sora

• Conjectures and Exhumations: Citations of History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science in US Federal Courts

  Citation: 25

  Authors: Gary, David

• From Hunger to Love

  Citation: 20

  Authors: Desmond

• Narrativity of the Law

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Peter

• Cities in the City: Street Art, Enchantment, and the Urban Commons

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Alison

• Nature as a Legal Person: Proxy Constellations in Law

  Citation: 18

  Authors: Andreas

• A New<i>Nomos</i>Offshore and Bodies as their Own Signs

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Stephanie, Stewart

• Law and Violence

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Christoph

• When Silence Speaks: Press Censorship and Rule of Law in British Hong Kong, 1850s–1940s

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Michael

• Bodies in the Water: On Reading Images More Sensibly

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Desmond

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