About the Journal

About the Journal

This is the first academic journal dedicated to the research and practice of legal design. The original organizers of this journal come from four continents, eleven countries, sixteen academic institutions, fifteen organizations, and countless perspectives. We have chosen a deliberately expansive and exploratory editorial frame for the first two years (and four editions) of the Legal Design Journal. We have done so in order to engage in a period of editorial co-design with those who have something to say about this subject.

Our goal is to provide a platform for great quality legal design work, and to make this as accessible as possible. Our open-access policy is central to our vision of our legal design community of practice. We hope the Journal can provide a bridge between academic and applied practical work in the field of legal design and help to further connect the legal and design worlds.

Open Access: Our articles are publicly available and free of charge.

High Quality: We only accept articles that offer innovative, cutting-edge perspectives about legal design.

Peer-reviewed: Our articles are subject to a rigorous peer-review process.

Dedicated to legal design: This is the first and only journal entirely dedicated to legal design.

Structure of the Journal

The Journal is composed of three elements. These represent different facets of legal design: academic and scholarly; applied and practical; contemporary and cutting edge.

• Articles – This part of the Journal will publish articles that are rigorous, well-informed and that add to our understanding of the field of legal design. Text submissions can be between 5,000 and 10,000 words for full articles and can include a wide range of non-textual media.

• Studio – This part of the Journal will showcase the best work and developments in legal design. This can be in the form of text, digital artifacts, reports, visualisations or any other media that we can distribute in a digital journal format. Text submissions can be between 1,000 and 5,000 words and are reviewed by our Studio editorial team.

• News – This part of the Journal will keep our readers informed of developments in the world of legal design via updates, news items, reports on events and projects and short comments.

Open Access

The Journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. The Creative Commons License we use to achieve this is the Creative Commons BY 4.0 license
The Journal is diamond open-access and does not charge authors any submission or article processing charges.

Authors retain all rights to their work. Any version of a paper published in the Journal may be deposited in an institutional or other repository of the author’s choice without embargo.

Privacy statement

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