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Journal policies

Aims & Scope

Subject coverage and objectives of Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Legal Research.

Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Legal Research is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal publishing original scholarship on law and legal systems, examined through allied disciplines. Every published article must have a substantive legal dimension.

Objectives

  • Publish rigorous, original legal scholarship advancing doctrinal, comparative, empirical and interdisciplinary understanding of law.
  • Connect legal analysis with insights from economics, technology, public policy, sociology, political science and ethics.
  • Serve an international readership while providing a platform for scholarship from India and the Global South.

Subject coverage

  1. 1

    Public and Criminal Law

    constitutional law, administrative law, criminal justice, human rights.

  2. 2

    Commercial and Regulatory Law

    corporate, insolvency, banking, competition, taxation, intellectual property.

  3. 3

    Law, Policy and Society

    law and economics, socio-legal studies, gender and law, environmental and health law.

  4. 4

    International and Emerging Issues

    public and private international law, comparative law, technology law, AI governance, dispute resolution.

Manuscripts without a substantive legal dimension fall outside scope and are desk-rejected at screening.