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''Legal Studies'' () is published for
The Society of Legal Scholars The Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) is the learned society for those who teach law in a university or similar institution or who are otherwise engaged in legal scholarship. As of the beginning of 2016 the Society had over 3,000 members consisting ...
(SLS) by
Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII of England, King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press A university press is an academic publishing hou ...
. It was first published in 1981 and is now recognised as "one of the leading generalist journals in the UK". Legal Studies publishes
peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...
scholarly articles, notes, reports, and book reviews. It has been edited by a board located in University of Manchester’s School of Law since 2016. A ranking of UK law journals based on statistical data from the 2001
Research Assessment Exercise The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) was an exercise undertaken approximately every five years on behalf of the four UK higher education funding councils ( HEFCE, SHEFC, HEFCW, DELNI) to evaluate the quality of research undertaken by British h ...
uses Legal Studies as the 'benchmark'. As of 2018, Legal Studies is no longer published by Wiley but published by Cambridge University Press. The winner of the Society of Legal Scholars' best paper award in 2023 was made to Conall Mallory and Hélène Tyrrell for their article ''The Extrajudicial Voice'', a study of the views of 13 very senior judges as to their role and conduct.https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/3A343844D846982771084E4B4CA0850D/S0261387524000023a.pdf/the-extrajudicial-voice.pdf Retrieved 19 April 2023


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*{{Official website, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1748-121X British law journals General law journals English-language journals Wiley (publisher) academic journals