Original, intellectually rigorous scholarship across four fields and the questions that arise between them.
CIJFMR publishes work that advances understanding, challenges assumptions, develops theory, analyses institutions or contributes evidence relevant to scholarship, practice or policy.
CIJFMR welcomes research on law and institutions, governance and public policy, society and social change, language and culture, history and ideas, organisations and markets, leadership and work, and the relationships among these domains. The Journal considers doctrinal, empirical, theoretical, comparative, historical, qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method research. A manuscript should present a clear question, explain its method or analytical approach, engage relevant scholarship, and state its contribution without exaggeration.
The Journal does more than accommodate several disciplines in one publication. It enables scholarly exchange among them while respecting the analytical and methodological standards of each field.
Public, private, domestic, comparative and international dimensions of law, institutions, rights and regulation.
Theoretically grounded and empirically informed work on institutions, communities, governance and public affairs.
Scholarship examining history, thought, language, expression, culture, ethics and interpretation.
Research on organisations, markets, leadership, innovation, business decisions and accountable governance.
Interdisciplinary work should do more than place material from different fields alongside one another. Authors should explain how the perspectives interact and why that interaction strengthens the research contribution.
Methods are assessed in context. The design suitable for doctrinal legal research differs from that required for an empirical management study or historical investigation.
The Journal welcomes country-specific, comparative, international, regional, transnational and cross-cultural studies. Locally focused work should explain its wider scholarly significance where that significance is not otherwise apparent.
Substantial original studies with a defined question, appropriate method or analytical framework and identifiable contribution.
Detailed limits: pending editorial configurationCritical, analytical examinations of an established or emerging body of scholarship, not descriptive summaries.
Detailed limits: pending editorial configurationDetailed study of an institution, legal development, organisation, community, policy intervention, event or setting with wider relevance.
Detailed limits: pending editorial configurationEvidence-informed analysis of public or institutional policy, its foundations, implementation, effects or alternatives.
Detailed limits: pending editorial configurationFocused contributions on significant developments, debates, judgments, regulatory changes or conceptual questions.
Detailed limits: pending editorial configurationA topic may fall within a listed field and still be declined. Editors also consider originality, contribution, design, analytical quality, sources, ethics, clarity and relevance to the Journal's readership.
CIJFMR welcomes academics, research scholars, doctoral candidates, practitioners, and policy professionals worldwide, but scope fit does not guarantee review, acceptance or publication.
