Law & Society Review

• 1. Introduction

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  Law & Society Review sits at the meeting point of two academic disciplines. The Law and Society Association founded it in 1966 as a peer-reviewed home for the academic field of law and society. Scholars who work in this space refer to the journal by the abbreviation LSR. They regard it as a leading publication in the sociology of law. What shaped that standing, and who carries the journal today?

• 2. Scholarly Reach

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  Four issues per volume per year have reached readers since the journal's founding. Law & Society Review is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal held a 2024 impact factor of 2.1. That placed it 41st among 444 journals in the law category and 54th among 220 in sociology. Three general editors now guide the journal's trajectory from that measured position.

• 3. Cambridge and the Editors

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  Cambridge University Press became Law & Society Review's publisher in 2024, replacing Wiley-Blackwell, which had carried the journal in the years before. The general editors who shape each issue all hold appointments at the University of California, Irvine: Lee Cabatingan, Bill Maurer, and Justin Richland. All three share an institutional home at the same campus, serving as the journal's editorial anchor as it enters its seventh decade.