Journal of Legal Studies in Business (JLSB)

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Active Call For Papers - Volume 24 - Publication Year End 2025

The Journal of Legal Studies in Business (JLSB) is the official publication of the Southeastern Academy of Legal Studies in Business (SEALSB) as a regional section of the affiliated international Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB). See LINK.

As of Spring 2025, JLSB is now actively accepting papers to be considered for inclusion in its upcoming volume 25, slated to be published at Year End 2025.

IMPORTANT NOTE: JLSB IS UNABLE TO ACCEPT ANY REQUESTS TO EXPEDITE REVIEWS. IF YOU SUBMIT A MANUSCRIPT FOR EXPEDITED REVIEW, WE WILL BE UNABLE TO REVIEW IT AT ALL, AS OUR EDITORIAL STAFF IS SMALL AND WE HAVE A STANDARD SCHEDULE AND PROCESS FOR ALL REVIEWS. We will not commence review of any article submited on an expedited basis, as we will assume the authors already intend to publish elsewhere absent the expedited process.

Since 1992, the JLSB has published high quality, double-blind/peer reviewed legal research on a wide range of law and ethics related topics with an intersection to business. The journal is indexed in Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Management and Marketing, and The Index to Legal Periodicals and Books, as well as being listed in the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) List of high quality publications. The journal has over 700 institutional and individual subscribers, and is in the process of being added to the Digital Commons platform in order to showcase author’s work, and to help maximize citation impact through full-text indexing in Google Scholar and other databases.

Article types

The Journal of Legal Studies in Business seeks scholarly, law-related manuscripts approporiate for law reviews and similar legal journals. The JLSB typically publishes legal scholarship that has relevance to business law related topics, and/or that explores the intersection between legal regulation and business ethics/CSR. The JLSB occasionally accepts high quality, well documented pedagogical scholarship centered on instructional theories and methods for teaching legal studies in higher education.
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The Journal of Legal Studies in Business does not accept previously published manuscripts or those that will be published elsewhere. Manuscripts may be sent simultaneously to other journals on the condition that the author(s) undertake to inform the appropriate editor immediately if the work is to be published elsewhere.

Submission requirements

Manuscript Format

  1. All copy, including footnotes and indented portions of both text and footnotes, must be double-spaced with one inch margins in Microsoft Word format.
  2. Because the Journal uses a rigorous double-blind peer reviewing process, the manuscript must not identify the author(s) anywhere in the body of the paper.
  3. The manuscript should include a separate title page containing the following information: the title of the piece; author’s or authors’ name(s); institutional affiliation(s); email address(es); mailing address(es); phone number(s); and a short abstract of 150 words or less.
  4. All footnotes should be in compliance with the style and typeface rules stated in the latest edition of A Uniform System of Citation (the “Bluebook”) and include pinpoint page citations as appropriate.

The author is responsible for full compliance with this system of citation before relevant publication deadlines, and for the accuracy and relevance of their own footnotes and citations. Authors of manuscripts accepted for publication will be responsible for providing a final electronic version formatted according to Journal guidelines and publication templates.

Additional Required Files
Authors should submit a current CV with their submission.

Editorial and Peer Review Process

The JLSB follows a rigorous faculty edited, double-blind, peer reviewed publication process that can be time consuming. Consideration of manuscripts is normally complete within four to eight weeks of receipt. Accepted manuscripts will normally be published within six months of their acceptance.

Publication details

Authors of manuscripts accepted for publication will be responsible for providing a final electronic version formatted according to Journal guidelines within the deadlines required to meet our annual publication schedule.

The JLSB is committed to real and immediate open access for academic work. All of the JLSB’s articles are free to access immediately from the date of publication. There are no author charges (commonly known as APCs) prior to publication, and no charge for any reader to download articles and reviews for their own scholarly use.

A Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-ND 4.0) license applies to all contents published in JLSB. While articles published on JLSB can be copied by anyone for noncommercial purposes if proper credit is given, all materials are published under an open-access license with authors retaining full and permanent ownership of their work. JLSB retains a perpetual, non-exclusive right to publish the work and to include it in other aggregations and indexes to achieve broader impact and visibility. Authors are responsible for and required to ascertain that they are in possession of image rights for any and all photographs, illustrations, and figures included in their work or to obtain publication or reproduction rights from the rights holders. Contents of the journal may be registered with Digital Commons, the Directory of Open Access Journals, and similar repositories. In submitting their work for publication in JLSB, authors agree to the terms set above. Authors are free and encouraged to store their work elsewhere, for instance in institutional repositories or websites such as academia.edu to increase circulation (see The Effects of Open Access), with attribution in such locations that the article was originally published with JLSB. Authors are also able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.