European Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (EJELS)

The European Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (EJELS) is a peer-reviewed open access journal devoted to the empirical study of law and legal systems. The Journal is established, owned, and run by the European Society for Empirical Legal Studies (ESELS). The Journal aims to (i) scientifically advance the field of empirical legal studies, (ii) bridge the substantive domain of law and the empirical approaches broadly conceived, and (iii) promote the use of different empirical methods when researching legal and public policy questions. In particular, it promotes methodological pluralism and strives to foster a discussion between the different fields. In line with this vision, the EJELS’s intended readership consequently includes researchers in various disciplines, such as legal scholars, psychologists, economists, political scientists, criminologists, etc. Besides the academic community, the Journal targets readers from legal practice, policy makers, and other professionals interested in the field. Editorial decisions are based on the high quality of the research. The Journal is not restricted to any particular field of law nor any particular legal system, but submissions need to be of relevance to a European audience. In light of its methodological and disciplinary pluralism, the EJELS is open to quantitative as well as qualitative scholars, acknowledging the richness in approaching different issues from various angles and using complementary or mixed methods approaches. The Journal aims to benefit from the domain expertise of legal scholars, as well as from their empirical methodologies, and from the methodologies of scholars from other sciences, such as social and computer sciences. The Journal is also meant to cover different types of research questions, such as explanatory as well as descriptive and explorative research.

European Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (EJELS) is :-

• International, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Refereed, Empirical Legal Studies, Law, Criminology, Political Science, Economics, Psychology, Public Policy Studies , Online , Bi-Annual Journal

• UGC Approved, ISSN Approved: P-ISSN E-ISSN: 2004-8556, Established: 2024,
• Provides Crossref DOI

• Not indexed in Scopus, WoS, DOAJ, PubMed, UGC CARE