Manuscript Types

LEGAL BRIEF publishes original scholarly works that contribute to the development of legal knowledge, legal theory, legal practice, and legal policy. The journal welcomes manuscripts addressing national and international legal issues through rigorous legal analysis, critical examination, and appropriate research methodologies.

All submitted manuscripts must be original, relevant to the journal's scope, and prepared in accordance with the journal's author guidelines and publication ethics policies. Manuscripts are subject to editorial assessment and peer review, as applicable to their type and content.

LEGAL BRIEF considers the following types of manuscripts:

1. Original Research Articles

Original Research Articles report original scholarly research that contributes new findings, arguments, interpretations, or insights to the field of law.

These articles may employ normative legal research, doctrinal analysis, statutory approaches, conceptual approaches, case-law analysis, comparative legal research, socio-legal research, empirical legal research, or other appropriate methodologies.

Manuscripts should clearly identify the research problem, objectives, methodology, relevant literature, analysis, findings or principal arguments, and conclusions. The contribution must be supported by appropriate legal authorities, scholarly references, and evidence.

2. Review Articles

Review Articles provide a critical and systematic examination of existing legal scholarship on a clearly defined topic.

These manuscripts should synthesize relevant literature, identify developments and disagreements in legal scholarship, evaluate the strengths and limitations of existing studies, and establish research gaps or directions for future investigation.

Authors must explain their literature identification and selection procedures where appropriate. Review articles must offer a substantive analytical contribution rather than merely summarize previously published works.

3. Comparative Legal Studies

Comparative Legal Studies examine similarities, differences, and interactions between legal systems, jurisdictions, legislative frameworks, judicial decisions, or legal institutions.

These manuscripts should establish a clear comparative framework, explain the selection of the jurisdictions or legal materials examined, and provide a critical analysis of the legal, institutional, historical, or contextual factors relevant to the comparison.

The comparison should generate meaningful theoretical, practical, or policy insights rather than simply describe different legal provisions.

4. Case Law and Judicial Decision Analysis

Case Law and Judicial Decision Analysis articles critically examine judicial decisions, constitutional court rulings, court judgments, or other relevant legal determinations.

Manuscripts should identify the legal issues, explain the applicable legal framework, analyze the reasoning and interpretation adopted by the court, and assess the implications of the decision for legal doctrine, legal practice, or public policy.

Authors must accurately identify and cite the relevant decisions and legal authorities. The analysis should provide a clear scholarly argument rather than a mere summary of the judgment.

5. Legal and Policy Analysis

Legal and Policy Analysis articles critically examine legislation, regulatory frameworks, legal reforms, institutional arrangements, or public policies involving legal issues.

These manuscripts should establish a clear analytical framework and evaluate the relevant legal principles, implementation challenges, institutional consequences, or policy implications.

The analysis should be supported by appropriate primary legal sources and relevant scholarly literature. Where recommendations are proposed, they should follow logically from the analysis and address clearly identified legal or policy problems.

6. Short Communications

Short Communications present concise but significant scholarly contributions concerning emerging legal issues, new legal developments, preliminary research findings, or focused theoretical and methodological arguments.

These manuscripts should address a clearly defined issue, provide adequate supporting sources or evidence, and explain their relevance to legal scholarship.

Short Communications are not intended to replace full research articles where comprehensive methodological explanation or extensive analysis is necessary.

7. Editorial and Invited Contributions

LEGAL BRIEF may publish editorials, invited commentaries, or other scholarly contributions when they are considered relevant to the journal's scope and publication objectives.

Such contributions may address important legal developments, emerging research directions, significant regulatory changes, or issues of particular relevance to the legal community.

Editorial and invited contributions remain subject to appropriate editorial assessment, ethical requirements, and any review procedures determined by the Editor-in-Chief. Invitation or editorial status does not exempt a manuscript from applicable standards of accuracy, originality, and publication ethics.

General Requirements for All Manuscript Types

All manuscripts submitted to LEGAL BRIEF must meet the following requirements:

  1. Relevance: The manuscript must fall within the journal's scope and contribute to legal scholarship.

  2. Originality: The manuscript must be original and must not be under consideration for publication by another journal.

  3. Academic quality: The manuscript must present a clear research problem, coherent argument, appropriate analysis, and conclusions supported by the material examined.

  4. Legal accuracy: Legal provisions, judicial decisions, references, quotations, and other supporting sources must be accurate and verifiable.

  5. Ethical compliance: Authors must comply with the journal's policies on authorship, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, research misconduct, and the use of artificial intelligence.

  6. Formatting: Manuscripts must follow the journal's author guidelines, citation requirements, and submission procedures.

  7. Peer review: Manuscripts will undergo editorial screening and, where applicable, peer review according to the journal's editorial policies.

The Editor-in-Chief reserves the right to determine the most appropriate manuscript category, request revisions, or decline submissions that do not meet the journal's scope, quality standards, or publication requirements.

Submission under a particular manuscript category does not guarantee acceptance or publication.

Policy responsibility: Editor-in-Chief, LEGAL BRIEF
Publisher: Ihsa Institute