About the Journal

The Oñati Socio-Legal Series (ISSN 2079-5971) is an international peer-reviewed on-line journal which publishes work within the field of law and society. This is broadly defined to include work which makes a significant contribution to the understanding and analysis of law as a set of social institutions, processes, practices or techniques, using any methodologies and approaches from the social sciences and humanities. Oñati Socio-Legal Series is owned and published by the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law.

Papers are first reviewed at desk and, if pre-accepted, are sent out to double-blind peer-review by at least two external referees.

Announcements

Oñati Socio-Legal Series receives a JIF for the first time and improves its metrics in the Web of Science

28-06-2023

Clarivate has released the Journal Citation Reports on 28 June. This year for the first time, more than 9,000 quality journals from more than 3,000 publishers, including Oñati Socio-legal Series, have received a Journal Impact Factor for the first time. Oñati Socio-Legal Series has been constantly improving its performance on Clarivate's Web of Science database. It has received a JIF of 0.5 and it has moved up to the Q2 quartile according to the Journal Citation Indicator (JCI), ranking 177 of 411 Law journals.

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Vol. 14 No. 5 (2024): Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory and sociology of law
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Issue edited by Stine Piilgaard Porner Nielsen (Aalborg University).

Published: 01-10-2024

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