The ''Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies'' is an English-language
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
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law journal covering books and research in
legal theory
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. It is published by
Oxford University Press
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in cooperation with the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The
editors-in-chief
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are Alon Harel and Ori Herstein. The journal is dedicated entirely to critical discussions of books or large research projects.
History
The review was established in 2010 by
David Enoch and
Alon Harel
Alon Harel ( he, אלון הראל, born 1957) is a law professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he holds the Phillip P. Mizock & Estelle Mizock Chair in Administrative and Criminal Law. He was educated at the Hebrew University of ...
. It was originally published by the Hebrew University law faculty. Since 2012, it has been published by Oxford University Press.
As of January 2018, the journal is published online only.
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The journal is based on symposia in which an author of a book or a research project is invited to respond to critical commentaries. The critical commentaries and the author's response are published in the same issue. Volumes 1-13 are abstracted and indexed by ]HeinOnline
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See also
*Law in Israel
Israeli law is based mostly on a common law legal system, though it also reflects the diverse history of the territory of the State of Israel throughout the last hundred years (which was at various times prior to independence under Ottoman, the ...
*''Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
The ''Oxford Journal of Legal Studies'' is a legal journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.
According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 1.083, ...
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*'' Israel Law Review''
References
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israeli law journals
English-language journals
Biannual journals
Academic journals established in 2010
Oxford University Press academic journals