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Subject Guide for Law: Journals

Journals

Find below a selection of relevant journal titles.

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Recommended Journals

Irish Jurist
1966 to Present

The Irish Jurist is Ireland’s oldest academic law journal. The Irish Jurist publishes material in all fields of law and welcomes submissions from Ireland and abroad, though editorial policy is to strike a balance between material of local and general interest. It encourages contributions which seek to analyse Irish law or which bring to bear international and comparative perspectives that are of relevance to the Irish legal community. 

The Irish Jurist is published twice a year, in Spring and Winter.

Irish Law Times
1983 to Present

The Irish Law Times is a refereed professional law journal for practising and academic lawyers. First established in 1865 (as the Irish Law Times and Solicitors Journal), and re-established in the 1980s by Round Hall Press as the Irish Law Times. it is published in 20 editions each year by Thomson Reuters.

Bar Review
1996 to Present

The official journal publication of The Law Library of The Bar of Ireland. Circulated to all members of the Bar and additional controlled circulation to the Judiciary.

Yale Law Journal
1891 to Present

For over a century, the Yale Law Journal has been at the forefront of legal scholarship, sparking conversation and encouraging reflection among scholars and students, as well as practicing lawyers and sitting judges and Justices.

The Journal strives to shape discussion of the most important and relevant legal issues through a rigorous scholarship selection and editing process.

Harvard Law Review
1887 to Present

The Harvard Law Review is a student-run organization whose primary purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship. In addition, the Review aims to be an effective research tool for practicing lawyers and students, and to provide opportunities for its student members to develop their own editing and writing skills. The organization is independent of the Harvard Law School; student editors make all editorial and organizational decisions.

The Review is published monthly from November through June, including a special Supreme Court issue each November and a Developments in the Law issue each April. 

Irish Criminal Law Journal
1991 to Present

Since 1990 the Irish Criminal Law Journal publishes four issues per year with learned articles on practical aspects of criminal law, cases and comment on the leading decisions of the courts on criminal law, as well as evidence and procedure updates.

Law Society Gazette
1999 to Present

Ireland's leading law magazine provides the latest legal news, in-depth features and professional information for lawyers and everyone interested in the law. 

Irish Planning and Environmental Law Journal
1994 to Present

Irish Planning and Environmental Law Journal, a quarterly journal since the early 1990s, is a practice-based journal that has become the leading forum for the topical discussion of developments in planning and environmental law. Along with topical articles it has regular sections on Section 5 References, Recent European environmental developments, Case Notes, and Primary and secondary legislation relevant to planning and environmental law.

Common Market Law Review
1963 to Present

The Common Market Law Review is the pre-eminent journal dealing with European Union law, and legal issues relating to the European Union. It has provided a forum for the keenest legal minds in the field of European Union law for over fifty years.

Regulation & Governance
2007 to Present

Regulation & Governance is the leading journal dedicated to the study of regulatory governance for academics across political science, law, psychology, criminology, sociology, organization and public management, economics and the social sciences, as well as regulators and legal experts in business and civil society.

Irish Employment Law Journal
2004 to Present

The Irish Employment Law Journal aims to help you keep up-to-date with developments in this field. You no longer need to consult a wide variety of sources as the Irish Employment Law Journal provides you with a quarterly summary of all the important changes within one source.

Irish Journal of Family Law
1998 to Present

This practice-based journal will keep practitioners abreast of legislative developments, interpretation by the courts and best practice in relation to the core areas of daily work.

Hibernian Law Journal
2000 to Present

Established in 1999, the Hibernian Law Journal is a legal journal co-ordinated by trainee and newly qualified solicitors.

Appreciating the important relationship between the study and the practice of law, the Hibernian Law Journal endeavours to provide a forum that promotes the integration of these traditionally distinct activities. The Journal addresses issues of interest and consequence to the legal community and feature writings that traverse the traditional boundaries of legal publishing in Ireland.

Stanford Law Review
1948 to Present

The Law Review has two principal functions: to educate and foster intellectual discourse among the student membership, and to contribute to legal scholarship by addressing important legal and social issues. Law Review participants select, edit, and publish articles and notes on the cutting edge of legal scholarship. 

The Law Review is operated entirely by Stanford Law School students and is fully independent of faculty and administration review or supervision. 

Duke Law Journal
1957 to Present

The Duke Law Journal is published six times per year, in October, November, December, February, March, and April, at the Duke University School of Law. The journal is among the most prestigious and influential legal publications in the country. Edited by a student board, approximately one-third of each issue's contents consists of student notes dealing with current legal developments, with the remaining content being devoted to articles and comments by professors and practitioners. Generally one issue each year is devoted to administrative law and often another issue is in the form of a symposium.