China Institute for Socio-Legal Studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Journal Information

Name (English&Chinese)

Asian Journal of Law and Society

《亚洲法与社会杂志》

Official Website Link

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/asian-journal-of-law-and-society

ISSN

2052-9015 (Print), 2052-9023 (Online)

None

Publication Period

3 series per year

OA Journal

APC

None

Journal Division

CAS Division: Sociology 3, Law 4

Impact Factor (latest)

0.8

CiteScore（latest）

1.4

Databases included

Scimago、WaScimagoshington and Lee、ERIH PLUS、ProQuest、EBSCO、HeinOnline、Scopus 、ESCI

Review Cycle

Note: The time required from "Submission" to "Return of first review comments"

Six months

Peer Review Format

▢ Single-blind ☑ Double-blind ▢ Open

Article Publishing Platform

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/asian-journal-of-law-and-society/all-issues

Journal Introduction

The Asian Journal of Law and Society is published by the Law and Society Center(LSC) at the Koguan School of Law(now is transformed into the China Institute for Socio-Legal Studies), in association with Cambridge University Press. The journal was officially launched in 2014, and is now celebrating its 10th anniversary. The journal is the first socio-legal journal in China, the first English socio-legal journal in Asia, and the only Asia-centred socio-legal journal in the world. This international academic journal published two series per year from 2014 to 2019 and three series per year from 2020 onwards. According to Clarivate's 2020 Journal Citation Index , the Asian Journal of Law and Society is ranked 76th out of all 403 law journals in the Web of Science,tied with the University of Chicago's Journal of Law and Economics. The journal currently receives 60,000 downloads per year from the Cambridge website alone, and nearly 100,000 downloads per year when third-party platforms such as ProQuest are included, has attracted nearly 8,000 institutional subscribers and showing promising reach. The journal has an average citation score of 1.4 over the three years from 2020; in 2023 it will have an impact factor of 0.8, with 208 independent submissions, a 13 percent increase on the previous year, making it a strong performer among academic journals of its size.

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主编寄语（找不到词）

AsianJLS, an English-language international journal, was initially created to provide a forum for socio-legal researchers from all over the world who are focusing on China and Asia, as well as a channel for socio-legal researchers in China and Asia to express their views to the international academic community. At first, Asia is just a simple geographical concept. However, Asia is also home to all the different religions, legal systems, institutions and civilisations established by mankind so far, and therefore has unlimited diversity, opportunities for choice and unfathomable potential for development. This mandala of diversity makes it difficult to reach consensus in Asia, as the Chinese story of the "blind men feeling the elephant" suggests.

To a large extent, it can be said that only through continuous discourse communication and empirical analysis of empirical science can an interdisciplinary, cross-border and cross-cultural community of knowledge be built, and the misunderstanding and ignorance caused by diversity be overcome, and thus it is hoped that on this basis a synergy of systemic innovation and reconstruction of order in the twenty-first century can be formed. In this process, China and Asia will become the forefront of social transformation and the most active academic circle for the exchange of ideas; accordingly, the centre of gravity of socio-legal will inevitably change, with more emphasis on interactive relationships and networks of meanings, and more emphasis on a multi-layered and diverse normative system. In this era of radical change, risk and uncertainty, I hope that this journal will be able to bear witness to the following three basic propositions about the community of human destiny, good law and good governance: that intercommunication is the smallest unit of society; that intellectual discourse can produce the structure of the future; and that practical experience is the test of truth.

——Chief editor Prof. Weidong JI

Editorial team

The team of journal editors-in-chief totalled 7 and the editorial board team totalled 39.

Prof.Weidong JI, Shanghaijaiotong University,China

Founder

JI Weidong is University Professor of Humanity and Social Sciences, Board Member of School Administration and President of China Institute for Socio-Legal Studies, and Director of Center for AI Governance and Law, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is also President of Sociology of Law Branch, Shanghai Law Society; Chairman of the Association for Computational Law, China Computer Federation (CCF); Member of China Digital Economy 50 Forum; Executive member of Chinese Judicial Research Society; Vice Chairman of Technology for Sustainable Development Goal Alliance for Asia; 欧尼亚提法与社会研究丛刊编辑委员会委员（未搜到）。He was once selected as Board Member Co-opted of Research Committee on Sociology of Law, The International Sociological Association; Member of Council of the Japanese Association of Sociology of Law; Member of the Research Committee of the Asia Pacific Forum (Awaji Conference); Researcher and Member of Planning Committee, International Institute of Advanced Studies; Member of Global Agenda Council on Justice, World Economic Forum; Vice Chairman of the Guiding Committee of Legal Education, the Ministry of Education, China; During 2008-2018, he was Dean and KoGuan Chair Professor of Law School, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.

Prof. Pratiksha Baxi,Jawaharlal Nehru University,India

Professor Pratiksha Baxi is an Indian sociologist and feminist legal scholar whose main research interests are in the areas of court procedure, ethnography and sexual violence against women. She has published Public Secrets of the Law: Rape Trials in India in 2014, which was described by Law & Society Review as ‘an outstanding study of the public life of rape trials in India’.

Prof. Adriaan W. Bedner, Leiden University, Netherlands

Adriaan W. Bedner conducts research on Socio-Legal in Indonesia and is Director of the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) . Professor Adriaan's research focuses on the administration of justice, legal reasoning, family law, and land law, with a particular emphasis on Indonesian issues. His research outputs cover a wide range of areas such as administrative tribunals, environmental litigation, the promotion of human rights in the matrimonial law system, and legal education in Indonesia. He has been involved in a number of research and legal education projects in Indonesia funded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, the Netherlands Research Council, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and NUFFIC, among others. In addition, he is Chairman of the Board of the International Institute of Asian Studies, editor of the Routledge series Law, Development and Globalisation, and a member of the Working Group on Indonesian-Netherlands Legal Cooperation.

Prof. Lynette Chua, National University of Singapore

Professor Lynette J. Chua is a scholar of law and society with research interests in legal mobilisation, legal consciousness, and rights, power and resistance. She is a Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where she is also Dean of the Yale-NUS Elm School, Director of the Dual Degree Programme in Law and Liberal Arts, and a past President of the Asian Law and Society Association.

Prof. David Engel, State University of New York, USA

Professor David Engel researches legal and social issues in the United States and other countries, particularly Thailand. He has been a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a Visiting Professor at Michigan Law School, Director of International Programmes and Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law, Director of the Christopher Baldy Centre for the Study of Law and Social Policy, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Sturm College of Law of the University of Denver, and a Distinguished Contributing Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law.

Prof. Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago, USA

Professor Tom Ginsburg focuses on issues of comparative and international law from an interdisciplinary perspective. He currently serves as co-director of the Comparative Constitutional Law Project, a project funded by the US National Science Foundation to collect and analyse the constitutions of all independent nation states since 1789. Prior to teaching law, he served as a legal advisor to the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal and in The Hague (Netherlands), and continues to work with numerous international development agencies and foreign governments on legal and constitutional reform. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and co-host of the Entitled podcast on human rights.

Prof. Yuka Kaneko, Kobe University, Japan

Professor Yuka Kaneko's main research focuses on the autonomous development of developing legal systems, with a particular emphasis on the study of civil and economic legal systems in Asia, and on the integration of comparative law studies with geographical studies. In the midst of globalisation and integration, Professor Yuka Kaneko follows developments in the core ASEAN countries such as Thailand and Indonesia, as well as in socialist reform countries such as Vietnam and Laos, in order to explore legal developments rooted in regional realities, with the aim of making useful policy recommendations.

Editorial Director

Prof. Matthias Vanhullebusch, Shanghaijaiotong University, China

Professor Matthias Vanhullebusch has been Professor of International Law at the Koguan School of Law of Shanghai Jiao Tong University since 2012 and is the Executive Director of the Asian Law Center. His research focuses on the law of the Middle East and Asia. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarianism, the Brill Series on Asian Law and Asian Studies in a Routledge World, and Editorial Director of the Asian Journal of Socio-Legal and Society.

Journal Features

The journal focuses on monographs, scholarly articles, book reviews, and controversial discussions, and encourages social theories of law, empirical research, and interdisciplinary studies. As the only Asia-centred law and society research journal, its scope extends from East, South and Southeast Asia to Central Asia. It is the journal's aim and distinctive feature to explore various themes of Asian law and society through the joint efforts of scholars from different countries around the globe, to bring Asian perspectives to theoretical and practical issues of global concern, and to promote in-depth dialogue between East and West around the construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction of order.

In the course of running the journal, we have invited world-renowned scholars such as Lawrence Friedman, Gunta Toibner and Masahiko Aoki to write feature articles, and organised a series of important special issues through the editors-in-chief (e.g., ‘Asia's Digital Transformation and the Law’, ‘Comparative Legal History Studies in Asian Contexts’, etc.) in 19 issues, as well as attracting an increasing number of academic contributions.

The Journal also encourages young scholars to focus on and study issues of Socio-Legal and Society by organising an annual competition for the best postgraduate paper in the field of Socio-Legal and Society from 2021 onwards. From 2022 onwards, the competition will be organised by AsianJLS in collaboration with the Asian Socio-Legal Society亚洲法与社会研究会. All submissions are evaluated by a committee of AsianJLS editors and invited experts, and the winning papers have the opportunity to be published in the AsianJLS, and the winning authors have the opportunity to work as post-doctoral young researchers at the China Institute for Socio-Legal Studies at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. So far, the competition has produced three winning papers and two honourable mentions, generating a good academic impact and radiation effect.

Journal performance

The journal applied in October 2015 to join the SSCI catalogue. Up to now, the journal has been included in important third-party databases such as ProQuest, EBSCO, HeinOnline, etc., and has risen to the second square in the SCOPUS citation database ranking and has been included in the ESCI citation database. The latest CiteScore is 1.4.

Journal Awards

(Awards from 2020 to present)

The journal has been promoted at international conferences such as the American Association of Asian Studies, the SLSA Annual Conference of the British Association for the Study of Law and Sociology, the American Society of International Law, the British Sociological Association, the Canadian Association for Law and Society, the International Association of Hong Kong in Public Law ICONS, the British Association of Jurists SLS, the European Society of International Law, the Asian Society of International Law Regional Conference (China), the Asian Society of Socio-Legal, and many others.

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