Presents a distinct scholarly question and original findings, with methods, analysis and evidence reported in enough detail for critical assessment.
About the Journal
EJSIR Journal of Law, Governance and Public Administration
Covers legal scholarship, governance, regulation, public administration and institutional practice across jurisdictions. Research should identify the legal or policy question, specify relevant sources and jurisdiction, and make its interpretive or empirical method traceable.
Journal overview
Journal of Law, Governance and Public Administration is a journal in the EJSIR Publisher programme, focused on Law, Governance and Public Administration. Its scope is organized into academic sections covering Public Law, International Law, Technology & Data Law, Corporate & Commercial Law, Environmental Law, Governance, Public Administration, Regulation & Policy, Human Rights and Comparative Law. This structure helps authors assess disciplinary fit and gives readers a clear route through the journal’s subject coverage.
The journal welcomes original research article, review article, systematic review, short communication and other contributions described in its author guidance when they fit the scope. Suitable approaches include doctrinal analysis, comparative law, legal history, regulation studies, policy analysis and empirical legal research. Authors should identify primary and secondary sources, explain case or jurisdiction selection and address the limits of the legal framework or data examined. Authors should engage relevant scholarship, explain the contribution and report limitations needed for critical assessment.
Editorial assessment considers journal fit, methodological or interpretive quality, research integrity and clarity. The stated review model is double-anonymous peer review, normally with at least two independent reviewers. Publisher policies on ethics, access, authorship, conflicts, data and corrections apply alongside this journal’s scope. Submission information is provided on this site; manuscripts can be submitted only after the journal’s submission route opens.
Academic remit
The journal aims to publish scholarship that advances understanding of law, governance and public institutions. It welcomes doctrinal, comparative, empirical and interdisciplinary research when the legal or institutional contribution is explicit and sources and methods are sufficiently transparent for scholarly assessment. The central contribution should fit at least one of the journal’s academic sections and be meaningful to readers in law, governance and public administration.
Suitable approaches include doctrinal analysis, comparative law, legal history, regulation studies, policy analysis and empirical legal research. Authors should identify primary and secondary sources, explain case or jurisdiction selection and address the limits of the legal framework or data examined. Authors should define the research question, connect the approach to the question, describe sources or materials and analytical choices, and provide enough information for critical assessment. Interdisciplinary work is welcome when its relevance to the journal is clear and the methods used for each component are explained.
Interpretations and claims should follow from the reported evidence. Authors should identify uncertainty, limitations and alternative explanations where relevant, and distinguish demonstrated results from implications or future work. Studies involving people, animals, sensitive data or protected material should describe applicable ethics, consent, privacy and permissions.
Legal commentary without engagement with relevant sources, policy claims without analysis, and comparative conclusions that ignore jurisdictional or institutional context fall outside scope. Manuscripts outside the listed sections or lacking an assessable scholarly contribution may be declined at editorial screening. The section descriptions below provide more detailed guidance on topic fit.
Published work
Article types
Manuscripts must fit the journal scope and meet the relevant reporting, ethics and evidence requirements.
Synthesizes relevant scholarship to clarify the state of knowledge, compare interpretations and identify well-supported questions for further study.
Uses a clearly defined question and reproducible search, selection and synthesis methods, with the evidence base and limitations reported transparently.
Reports a focused result, observation or method whose concise presentation is useful to the field and supported by appropriate evidence.
Describes a practical method, instrument, workflow or technical refinement, explaining its operation, context and performance or validation.
Develops a reasoned scholarly interpretation of an important topic, distinguishing evidence from opinion and acknowledging relevant uncertainty.
Introduces a research dataset, software or other scholarly resource, documenting its provenance, structure, access conditions and quality checks.