University of Toronto Law Journal

Aims & Scope

The University of Toronto Law Journal has taken a broad and visionary approach to legal scholarship since its beginnings in 1935.

Its first editor, Professor WPM Kennedy, hoped that the journal would foster a knowledge of law “as [the] expression … of organized human life, of ordered progress, and of social justice.” The University of Toronto Law Journal has since established itself as a leading journal for theoretical, interdisciplinary, comparative, and other conceptually oriented inquiries into law and law reform.

The Journal regularly publishes articles that study law from such perspectives as legal philosophy, law and economics, legal history, criminology, law and literature, and feminist analysis.

Global in relevance, international in scope, it publishes work by highly regarded scholars from many countries, including Australia, Israel, Germany, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

The University of Toronto Law Journal is currently ranked first among all general refereed law journals worldwide by the Washington and Lee most cited legal periodicals list, a position that it has held since 2007.

UTLJ also received the highest ranking for journal quality from the Australian Research Council and is recommended to British law libraries by the Society of Legal Scholars.

The University of Toronto Law Journal appears in numerous legal and social science databases, including Lexis, Westlaw, HeinOnline, JSTOR, Project Muse, and SCOPUS.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.5
2024	0.70

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.635

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	25

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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.

• Venture-Capital Exits in Canada and the United States

  Citation: 131

  Authors: Douglas J., Jeffrey G.

• How artificial intelligence will affect the practice of law

  Citation: 100

  Authors: Benjamin, Anthony, Albert H

• An Economic Analysis of Limited Liability in Corporation Law

  Citation: 78

  Authors: Paul, Michael, Stuart

• EMPIRE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: THE REAL SPANISH CONTRIBUTION

  Citation: 76

  Authors: Martti

• EXCLUSION AND EXCLUSIVITY IN PROPERTY LAW

  Citation: 72

  Authors: Larissa

• Redressing Historic Injustice

  Citation: 69

  Authors: Jeremy

• Law as computation in the era of artificial legal intelligence: Speaking law to the power of statistics

  Citation: 56

  Authors: Mireille

• Corrective Justice in a Nutshell

  Citation: 55

  Authors: Ernest J.

• Living between Water and Rocks: First Nations, Environmental Planning and Democracy

  Citation: 55

  Authors: John

• On Non-domination

  Citation: 52

  Authors: Ian

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