Legal Ethics

Aims & Scope

Legal Ethics is an international and interdisciplinary journal devoted to the field of legal ethics.

The journal provides an intellectual meeting ground for academic lawyers, practitioners and policy-makers to debate developments shaping the ethics of law and its practice at the micro and macro levels.

Its focus is broad enough to encompass empirical research on the ethics and conduct of the legal professions and judiciary, studies of legal ethics education and moral development, ethics development in contemporary professional practice, the ethical responsibilities of law schools, professional bodies and government, and jurisprudential or wider philosophical reflections on law as an ethical system and on the moral obligations of individual lawyers.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.3
2024	1.40

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.115

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	15

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	27849

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	12

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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.

• The Moral of the Story: Toward an Understanding of Ethics in Organisations and Legal Practice

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Kim, Majella

• ‘Love Law, Love Life’: Neoliberalism, Wellbeing and Gender in the Legal Profession—The Case of Law School

  Citation: 18

  Authors: Richard

• Mere-Zeal, Hyper-Zeal and the Ethical Obligations of Lawyers

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Tim

• The Power of Rationalisation to Influence Lawyers' Decisions to Act Unethically

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Kath, Vivien

• The Values of Common Law Legal Education: Rethinking Rules, Resposibilities, Relationships and Roles in the Law School

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Roger, Julian

• Comparative Studies of Lawyer Deviance and Discipline

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Richard L

• Australian Law Students'Perceptions of their Values: Interim Results in the First Year—2001—of a Three-Year Empirical Assessment

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Adrian, Josephine

• Icarus Falls: The Coal Health Scandal

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Andrew, Avis

• ‘Gorilla exceptions’ and the ethically apathetic corporate lawyer

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Steven, Emma

• Practising Professionalism: Observations from an Empirical Study of New Australian Lawyers

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Vivien, Tony, Stephen, Margie

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