期刊名称：JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (JELS) fills a gap in the legal and social science literature that has often left scholars, lawyers, and policymakers without basic knowledge of legal systems. Always timely and provocative, studies published in JELS have been covered in leading news outlets such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Forbes Magazine, the Financial Times, and USA Today.
Aims and Scope
JELS: Where scholarship and practice meet
The Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (JELS) is a peer-edited, peer-refereed, interdisciplinary journal that publishes high-quality, emirically-oriented articles of interest to scholars in a diverse range of law and law-related fields, including civil justice, corporate law, criminal justice, domestic relations, economics, finance, health care, political science, psychology, public policy, securities regulation, and sociology. Both experimental and nonexperimental data analysis are welcome, as are law-related empirical studies from around the world.
Launched in 2004, JELS is devoted to the dissemination of empirical studies of the legal system. The Journal's editors and editorial advisory boards comprise renowned international scholars from diverse disciplines, including law, statistics, economics, psychology, industrial relations, and dispute resolution. Recognizing that many legal and policy debates hinge on assumptions about the operation of the legal system, the Journal seeks to encourage and promote the careful, dispassionate testing of these assumptions. The editorial policy of the Journal is open to empirical work from any disciplinary or ideological approach to the study of law.
Empirical analysis of the legal system has a long, if spotty, tradition in the academy. Many legal realists of the 1930s made their mark with empirical studies. A growing number of contemporary scholars recognize the value of empirical analysis in understanding the legal system and its role in society. JELS provides an outlet for publication of high quality empirical work, supporting and encouraging this growing field of study.
There is currently a gap in the legal and social science literature that has often left scholars, lawyers, and policymakers without basic knowledge of legal systems or with false or distorted impressions. Even simple descriptive data about the functioning of courts and the legal systems are often lacking. Reform and intellectual debate have previously proceeded in an empirical vacuum. Courts and lawyers often do not know what to make of empirical findings in part because they so rarely encounter them. JELS fills this gap.
The time is ripe for empirical studies of the legal system. With the explosion in information technology, data sources on the legal system are improving in quality and accessibility. Compared with just a few years ago, researchers today can easily access original data sets. For example, using internet browsers and the archive at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, academic researchers can obtain data ranging from the RAND studies of jury verdicts in California and Chicago, to the Wisconsin Civil Litigation Research Project's data, to the Federal Judicial Center's archives of all federal court cases. A major goal of JELS is to make these and other worldwide data sets more widely known and used. JELS papers should clearly document their data sources and methodology so that all researchers can access, replicate, and criticize the analysis and results.
JELS has an International Advisory Board that includes empirical scholars from around the world, including Japan, continental Europe, Scandinavia, England, and Australia. Journals edited in the United States sometimes exhibit a form of provincialism in assessing empirical work based in foreign countries. If there are no direct and obvious implications for the United States, the data are sometimes treated as being of insufficient interest to warrant publication. JELS will have a self-consciously international perspective. An article that provides useful insights into the experience of a country will be judged by the article's potential appeal to a worldwide audience and not solely to a U.S. readership.
By the time the first issue of JELS was published in January of 2004, controversial, topical, and thought-provoking articles from the first volume had already been discussed and debated in The New York Times, The Economist, the Financial Times (London), the Wall Street Journal, and the International Herald Tribune.
Readership
Scholars in diverse law and law-related fields, including criminal justice, domestic relations, economics, finance, health care, political science, psychology, public policy, and sociology.
Keywords
Legal, Empirical, Studies, CELS, SELS, Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Society for Empirical Legal Studies, empirical legal studies, procedural, justice, criminal, relations, domestic, judicial, jurisdiction, legislation, government, parliament, public, policy, sentencing, act, research, analysis, periodical, sociology, psychology
Abstracting and Indexing Information
- Criminal Justice Abstracts (EBSCO Publishing)
- Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences (Thomson Reuters)
- Social Sciences Citation Index (Thomson Reuters)
- SocINDEX (EBSCO Publishing)
Instructions to Authors
What to submit: 2 copies of your manuscript, one with all identifying references removed. These may be Microsoft Word or PDF files, and should be sent via email to jels@cornell.edu. All tables and figures should be included and not submitted as separate documents. Authors who prefer to submit by mail should contact jels@cornell.edu for instructions.
Manuscript format: Authors of accepted papers are asked to format their work according to the following guidelines. Manuscripts may employ either the reference and citation style used in standard social science practice (e.g., Law & Society Review format) with most references in text in parentheticals and a bibliography at the end of the article, or the style common in legal periodicals, as set forth in the 'Bluebook' (available from the Harvard Law Review), with full citations in the footnotes and no bibliography. Detailed style information is available from JELS.
Specific editorial conventions of which authors should be aware are:
General
- Headings in the body of an article follow the style of Roman numeral, capital letter, numeral, lower case letter.
- The first footnote is unnumbered, contains author information, and any thank you messages, etc.
Table and Figures
- Initial caps and italics are used for each major word in table column headings.
- Only the first word is capitalized in table rows.
- Horizontal lines separate the table heading from the table body and are also used at the end of a table.
- Initial caps are used for each major word in the title of tables:
E.g., “Table 1: Number of Verdicts in Tort Trials by Jurisdiction by Decade”
- Only the first word of a figure title is capitalized.
E.g., “Figure 1: Average and median damage awards in tort verdicts by year.”
- Authors should strive to use a font in figures that is compatible with JELS’s text font. Times Roman is acceptable.
- Tables and figures should stand on their own. When appropriate, authors should include an explanatory note for a table or figure. The goal is to have the table or figure “stand on its own” so that a busy reader can understand the table without reading the whole article.
Please see Headings and Tables example for further reference.
Also, please note that there are three preferred formats for digital artwork submission: Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), and Tagged Image Format (TIFF). We suggest that line art be saved as EPS files. Alternately, these may be saved as PDF files at 600 dots per inch (dpi) or better at final size. Tone art, or photographic images, should be saved as TIFF files with a resolution of 300 dpi at final size. For combination figures, or artwork that contains both photographs and labeling, we recommend saving figures as EPS files, or as PDF files with a resolution of 600 dpi or better at final size. More detailed information on the submission of electronic artwork can be found at www.blackwellpublishing.com/authors/digill.asp.
Simultaneous submission policy: Simultaneous submission of papers to JELS and other journals is permitted. JELS, however, requires that if a submission is accepted for publication in JELS before acceptance by another journal, the author commits to publishing the article in JELS. Thus, if JELS accepts an article before other journals have acted, the author must publish in JELS. If an author receives an acceptance before JELS has acted, the author is free to withdraw the submission from JELS, or to request an expedited review from JELS. Please contact JELS for details.
Send manuscripts and inquiries about editorial matters to:
Editor
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
Cornell Law School
Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca, New York 14853
or electronically: jels@cornell.edu.
NEW: Online production tracking is now available for your article through Blackwell’s Author Services.
Author Services enables authors to track their article - once it has been accepted - through the production process to publication online and in print. Authors can check the status of their articles online and choose to receive automated e-mails at key stages of production so they don’t need to contact the production editor to check on progress. Visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor for more details on online production tracking and for a wealth of resources including FAQs and tips on article preparation, submission and more.
Conflict of Interest:
Authors are expected to disclose any commercial or other associations that might pose a conflict of interest in connection with a submitted article. All funding sources supporting the work, and institutional or corporate affiliations of the authors, should be acknowledged in a * footnote on the first page of the article. Articles are considered for publication on the understanding that neither the article nor its essential substance has been or will be published elsewhere before appearing in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. Abstracts, online working papers, and press reports are not considered as publications for purposes of this policy.
Editorial Board
Founding Editor
Theodore Eisenberg (1947-2014)
Co-Editors
Michael D. Frakes, Cornell Law School
Valerie P. Hans, Cornell Law School
Michael Heise, Cornell Law School
Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Cornell Law School
Martin T. Wells, Cornell University
Executive Editor
Dawn M. Chutkow, Cornell University
Associate Editors
Henry Farber, Princeton University
Steven Garber, RAND Institute for Civil Justice
Deborah R. Hensler, Stanford Law School
Daniel E. Ho, Stanford Law School
Herbert M. Kritzer, University of Minnesota Law School
Richard O. Lempert, University of Michigan
Editorial Assistant
Bonnie Jo Coughlin, Cornell Law School
International Editorial Advisory Board
Clas Bergström, Stockholm School of Economics
Mandeep K. Dhami, Middlesex University
Hazel Genn, University College London
Kuo-Chang Huang, Academia Sinica
Jocelyn Martel, ESSEC Business School
Regina A. Schuller, York University
Russell Smyth, Monash University
United States Editorial Advisory Board
Orley Ashenfelter, Princeton University
Kevin M. Clermont,Cornell Law School
Shari Seidman Diamond, Northwestern University, Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation
John J Donohue III, Stanford Law School
Robert Ellickson, Yale Law School
William Landes, University of Chicago Law School
Robert MacCoun, UC Berkeley
Jonathan R. Macey, Yale Law School
Setsuo Miyazawa, UC Hastings Law School
Brian Ostrom, National Center for State Courts
Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard Law School
Neil Vidmar, Duke Law School
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