Oñati Socio-Legal Series: Announcements
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description: 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 a 100% Open Access journal and is owned and published by the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law. Oñati Socio-Legal Series publishes original pieces of research. Papers previously published as preprints or working papers are accepted, as well as original reviews of literature. Papers are first reviewed at desk and, if pre-accepted, are sent out to double-blind peer-review by at least two external referees. Authors retain the copyright of their work at all times.
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items: Katrin Seidel and Martin Ramstedt (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) present Oñati Socio-Legal Series 15(5): Decolonising Plural Legal Orders, Decentring Epistemological Paradigms
items: August issue of OSLS is available: Sociology of law and prison studies: The social uses of law within the prison’s legal field
items: Nuevo número de OSLS: "Desafíos sociales y jurídicos del nuevo paradigma de la discapacidad intelectual. Un compromiso con los derechos humanos, la inclusión y la igualdad"
items: Oñati Socio-Legal Series receives a JIF for the first time and improves its metrics in the Web of Science
items: OSLS and Sortuz have published their own style guidelines
items: OSLS will have a Journal Impact Factor (JIF)
items: OSLS welcomes individual submissions
items: Oñati Socio-Legal Series is in the Q3 of JCR Law journals
items: First Online publication: All OSLS articles on one site
items: A new-and-improved publishing platform for our journals
items: OSLS has participated in an international survey about Diamond Open Access
items: Oñati Socio-legal Series is now included in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (Web of Science)
items: Papers will now have a DOI number
items: New site for first publication of accepted papers
items: Oñati Socio-legal Series gets "A" rating in Italy
items: OSLS included in Latindex & ISOC
items: OSLS indexed in DOAJ
items: OSLS indexed in Dialnet
items: Congratulations to those authors of the "Autonomy and Heteronomy of the Judiciary in Europe" issue
items: Congratulations to Shahla Ali. Her paper listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list

Katrin Seidel and Martin Ramstedt (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) present Oñati Socio-Legal Series 15(5): Decolonising Plural Legal Orders, Decentring Epistemological Paradigms
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description: Can legal pluralism, meant to manage diversity, actually reinforce old colonial hierarchies? This special issue explores how post-empire legal arrangements may perpetuate inequality and offers tools to build more inclusive legal frameworks. Six contributions reveal why rethinking legal pluralism is more urgent than ever. Watch Katrin and Martin's video here: https://youtu.be/fVfspAZUB8c Or read the special issue, here: https://doi.org/10.35295/155
creator: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
date: 2025-10-02

August issue of OSLS is available: Sociology of law and prison studies: The social uses of law within the prison’s legal field
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description: The July-August issue of Oñati Socio-legal Series is available online. Titled "Sociology of law and prison studies: The social uses of law within the prison’s legal field", the issue, edited by Luca Sterchele (Università degli Studi di Torino) and Francesca Vianello (Università di Padova), presents original pieces of research by socio-legal scholars that gathered in a workshop at the IISL. The editors write that "this special issue aims to contribute to the understanding of the space of law within the prison context—that is, the forms of its actual and instrumental use, as well as the practices through which it is neutralized. In this sense, it responds to the proposal put forward by Salle and Chantraine (2009) to react against juridicism (Bourdieu 1987), that is, the “tendency (...) to describe the social world in the language of rules” (Bourdieu 1987, 40), by advocating for “an empirical sociology of the social uses of law in prison.” The issue is completed by assorted pieces of socio-legal research on a variety of topics.
creator: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
date: 2025-09-08

Nuevo número de OSLS: "Desafíos sociales y jurídicos del nuevo paradigma de la discapacidad intelectual. Un compromiso con los derechos humanos, la inclusión y la igualdad"
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description: El 2 de junio se ha publicado el nuevo número de Oñati Socio-legal Series, titulado “Desafíos sociales y jurídicos del nuevo paradigma de la discapacidad intelectual. Un compromiso con los derechos humanos, la inclusión y la igualdad”, editado por Ana Isabel Herrán Ortiz (Universidad de Deusto). El número se compone de siete artículos temáticos que giran en torno al tema indicado en el título, más una introducción. En palabras de la editora, este proyecto encuentra su origen en el marco de un proyecto de investigación multidisciplinar en el que participan investigadoras de tres universidades, a saber: la Universidad de Deusto, la Universidad Pontificia Comillas, y la Universitat Ramon Llull, y sitúa el foco en los derechos de las personas con discapacidad intelectual, abordando con una mirada interdisciplinar las diferentes realidades y dificultades que plantea el denominado modelo social y de derechos de la discapacidad intelectual, interpretado a la luz de los derechos humanos. Forman el número los siguientes artículos: Introducción (Ana Isabel Herrán Ortiz) Discapacidad intelectual y capacidad intelectual límite: claves para una mejor inserción laboral (Mariola Serrano Argüeso) El diseño y gestión de apoyos para una vida digna, plena y conscientemente elegida (Garazi Yurrebaso Atutxa, María Villaescusa Peral) La capacidad contractual de las personas con discapacidad en el Código Civil español y en la Propuesta de modernización de 2023 (Núria Ginés Castellet) Derechos fundamentales y discapacidad A propósito de la autonomía personal y el derecho a la vida independiente en la Constitucion Española (Ana Isabel Herrán Ortiz) La discapacidad en la Cartera Europea de Identidad Digital (EUDI Wallet) Una oportunidad para mejorar la accesibilidad y contratos eficientes (Gema Tomás Martínez) El impacto de la brecha digital en el ámbito laboral de las personas con discapacidad (Estibaliz Jorge Silva) La protección de la persona con discapacidad intelectual como víctima del …
creator: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
date: 2025-06-02

Oñati Socio-Legal Series receives a JIF for the first time and improves its metrics in the Web of Science
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description: 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. Moreover, it has moved up to the Q2 quartile according to the Journal Citation Indicator (JCI), ranking 177 of 411 Law journals. Beginning with the 2022 metrics, released in June 2023, all journals in the Web of Science Core Collection receive a JIF. This extends to the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) for the first time. Oñati Socio-Legal Series is in the ESCI. In the JCR that has just been published, Oñati Socio-Legal Series has received a JIF of 0.5. It had a total of 133 citable items from years 2020 and 2021, and it received a total of 64 citations in 2022 to those 133 items. OSLS and all 9,000 journals indexed in AHCI and ESCI have not received a rank, quartile or percentile. These values will be calculated with the release of the 2023 metrics in June 2024. Q2 in Law journals In 2021, Clarivate introduced the Journal Citation Indicator (JCI). According to this metric, Oñati Socio-Legal Series is now in the Q2 quartile of Law journals, ranking 177th of all 411 titles, moving up one quartile. The JCI percentile is at an all-time high of 57.06. The JCI was introduced in 2021 with the release of the 2020 metrics and was calculated back to 2017. It represents the average category-normalized citation impact for papers published in the prior three-year period. Read Clarivate's statement here.
creator: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
date: 2023-06-28

OSLS and Sortuz have published their own style guidelines
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description: OSLS and Sortuz have now their own official house style guidelines compendium, published and available to anyone on each of the journal websites and on the step-by-step submission panel. These guidelines have been developed drawing on the internationally well-known Harvard and APA guidelines, but they also acknowledge the nuance and particular usage of them that contributing authors of both OSLS and Sortuz have made throughout the years. This compendium of the Oñati guidelines does not aim to be exhaustive. Its goal is to offer an overview of our house style as it has developed organically and as it is understood and owned by both OSLS and Sortuz as a part of their editorial policy and process. It is based on the British Standards BS 5605:1990 Recommendations for citing and referencing published material and BS 1629:1989 Recommendations or references to published materials, and also, partially, on the APA Style Guidelines. All of these have been adapted to reflect the current usage in both OSLS and Sortuz. Authors are advised to present their submissions using this citing and referencing style. When in doubt or for something not covered in this style sheet , they can always default back on the commonly used Harvard guidelines, because accepted submissions go through a personalized editorial revision and correction of citations and references, as well as other formal aspects. As a by-product of the Harvard style, the core of the Oñati style is to cite publications in the text by giving the author’s surname and the year of publication, and to list all the citations in a bibliography (“references”) at the end of the text. This is why it can be referred to as “author - date style”.
creator: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
date: 2023-06-06

OSLS will have a Journal Impact Factor (JIF)
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description: Clarivate has announced that all Web of Science Core Collection journals will have Journal Impact Factors from 2023 on. This is excellent news for Oñati Socio-Legal Series, which is included in the Core Collection. The announcement was made 26 July. The change will affect the 2023 release of the Journal Citation Reports. This change means expanding the JIF from Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) to include journals from the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the multidisciplinary Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), the latter which includes OSLS. In addition, the 2023 release of the Journal Citation Reports will display the JIF with one decimal place, rather than the current three decimal places, to encourage users to consider the other indicators and descriptive data in the JCR when comparing journals. More information can be found in Clarivate's statement.
creator: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
date: 2022-07-27

OSLS welcomes individual submissions
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creator: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
date: 2022-01-10

Oñati Socio-Legal Series is in the Q3 of JCR Law journals
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description: Clarivate has launched the June JCR Report, which features Oñati Socio-Legal Series for the first year, and in the 3rd quartile (Q3) of Law journals. It ranks 246th of 403 journals. For the first time, JCR covers the full breadth of research covered in all the journals in the Web of Science Core Collection, including the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), which has not been fully covered in JCR until now. As Clarivate's Dr Nandita Quaderi states, "the journals covered in AHCI and ESCI have met the same rigorous quality criteria (...) for coverage as the publications covered in the Science Citation Index and the Social Sciences Citation Index. Therefore, AHCI and ESCI – and their content from trustworthy, Web of Science-selected journals – merit complete coverage in the JCR" [Source]. ESCI journals, as is OSLS's case, do not receive a Journal Impact Factor (JIF). OSLS's JCI (Journal Citation Indicator) is 0.42. This is the average Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI) of citable items published by a journal over a recent three-year period. The average JCI in a category is 1. The report certifies OSLS as a Diamond Open Access journal, with all its citable contents being published in open access. The citable items constitute 91% of OSLS's output.
creator: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
date: 2021-07-09

First Online publication: All OSLS articles on one site
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description: OSLS First Online articles - articles that have been reviewed, accepted, revised, and copy-edited with the style and visual elements that are trademarks of OSLS, and that are made public ahead of their assignment to a particular OSLS issue - are now available on the same journal site. They will be compiled on a website page: https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/firstonline This page can be accessed through the navigation menu on the top left bar of the website. This integration of all OSLS publications on one site makes it easier to identify the First Online papers as official publications of OSLS, and it provides a more seamless navigation across different parts of the journal, such as current issue, archives, journal policy, etc. The First Online section will be updated on a regular basis as new articles go through the production process and are ready to be published.
creator: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
date: 2021-05-21

A new-and-improved publishing platform for our journals
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description: This will allow for an overall more satisfactory experience for all users and readers of the journals. For authors, it will help to deposit article metadata more safely and efficiently, which will increase visibility and indexability of these articles. If you are a registered user, you may have received automatized notifications these days. If you wish to disable them, please log in the website with your user name and password, and go to your Dashboard. Once you are there, click on Edit profile and on the submenu Notifications, and check off any notification that you do not wish to receive. Thank you!
creator: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
date: 2021-04-19

OSLS has participated in an international survey about Diamond Open Access
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description: Diamond Open Access is the designation applied to journals that have neither subscription fees nor Article Processing Charges and are, therefore, free to read and to publish in. The findings can be read here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4558704, and the recommendations, here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4562790 Here is the summary: Findings: A wide archipelago of relatively small journals serving diverse communities OA diamond journals are on the road to full compliance with Plan S A mix of scientific strengths and operational challenges An economy that largely depends on volunteers, universities and government Key Recommendations: Streamline technical support Ensure compliance with Plan S Build capacity Increase effectiveness Sustain and invest in the future Kick-start actions: Prepare an International Workshop and Symposium on OA diamond within 6 months to initiate a global conversation among different stakeholders Set up an OA diamond Funding Strategy within 1 year to implement funding recommendations Build the OA diamond Capacity Center within 2 years to support the implementation of recommendations
creator: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
date: 2021-03-10

Oñati Socio-legal Series is now included in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (Web of Science)
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description: Beginning with issue 7(1) and onwards, our journal will be indexed and abstracted in the ESCI. The ESCI is part of the Web of Science Core Collection, and it was launched in 2015 to include high-quality, peer reviewed publications. It ensures important research is visible in the Web of Science Core Collection. As of 2018, the Core Collection included more than 12,700 top-tier international and regional journals in over 250 disciplines. The Web of Science Core Collection is, nowadays, unarguably one of the top indexing tools for scientific journals and books, as well as a seal of quality by itself. Journals that are part of ESCI are carefully evaluated by independent experts. Citations from the ESCI are included in the citation counts for Journal Citation Reports, so they contribute to the Impact Factors of other journals. As part of the ESCI, OSLS is now discoverable on Web of Science with full citation counts, author information and other enrichment. These articles will be included in an author's h-index calculation, and they will also be in analysis conducted on other Clarivate products such as InCites. Being in the ESCI will improve OSLS's visibility and provides a mark of quality, with the benefits that this brings to authors. As part of the ESCI, Oñati Socio-legal Series will be eligible for inclusion in the SSCI (Social Sciences Citation Index). Having been selected for indexation in the ESCI is a great accomplishment for the Institute, and we wish to thank all of the authors, guest editors, and reviewers who have helped us fulfill this goal. Click here to view our Letter of Acceptance in the ESCI. Click here to learn more about the ESCI.
creator: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
date: 2019-11-13

Papers will now have a DOI number
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description: Most notoriously, our journal, Oñati Socio-legal Series, will now assign a complete DOI (Digital Object Identifier) to each of its articles. The DOI prefix assigned to the institute is 10.35295, and all OSLS articles will have a link beginning with this prefix, the suffix "osls.iisl", and a 16-digit number. Articles published this year already have a DOI, and we are working on registering a DOI for older articles. DOI enables every published article to cite properly, thus provides accurate number of citations and also increase the visibility of the published work. This increases the impact factor of the author and journal as well. <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG /> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves /> <w:TrackFormatting /> <w:HyphenationZone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:PunctuationKerning /> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas /> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF /> <w:LidThemeOther>ES</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables /> <w:SnapToGridInCell /> <w:WrapTextWithPunct /> <w:UseAsianBreakRules /> <w:DontGrowAutofit /> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark /> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning /> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents /> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps /> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math" /> <m:brkBin m:val="before" /> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--" /> <m:smallFrac m:val="off" /> <m:dispDef /> <m:lMargin m:val="0" /> <m:rMargin m:val="0" /> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup" /> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440" /> <m:intLim m:val="subSup" /> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr" /> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenU…
creator: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
date: 2019-05-08

New site for first publication of accepted papers
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description: Our usual publication policy still fully applies, ie authors will always hold copyright on their work and will always be free to redistribute, disseminate and republish their work, with acknowledgement of first publication with us. Please browse our new first publication site (https://onatifirstonline.wordpress.com/) If you are registered Wordpress users, you can follow us there and keep up to date with new publications. Thank you for your patience as we gradually upload eligible papers.
creator: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
date: 2019-04-16

Oñati Socio-legal Series gets "A" rating in Italy
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description: The IISL is proud to announce that ANVUR, Italy's National Evaluation Agency for University and Research, has acknowledged the scientific level of Oñati Socio-legal Series and placed it in the category of upper class journals (Class 'A' journals) in both the legal-philosophical and sociological sectors. This is an important achievement, which has been the result of the hard work of Luigi Cominelli, Vincenzo Ferrari and Cristina Ruiz, among others.
creator: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
date: 2018-09-03

OSLS included in Latindex & ISOC
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description: Our peer-reviewed international journal, Oñati Socio-legal Series, has been included in Latindex (directory and catalogue) [+], where it fulfils 34 out of 36 quality criteria. Furthermore, it has been selected to be indexed in ISOC [+] a database run by the Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [+], It has been evaluated based on renowned international standards, designed to determine its editorial quality and scientific interest. This guarantees the quality of our publications, and it will help disseminating our articles! Nuestra revista internacional, evaluada por expertos, Oñati Socio-legal Series, se ha incluido en el sistema Latindex (directorio y catálogo) [+], donde cumple 34 de los 36 criterios de calidad, y ha sido seleccionada para ser indizada en la base de datos ISOC [+] (Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [+]), después de someterse a un proceso de evaluación basado en normas internacionalmente reconocidas, orientado a determinar su calidad editorial e interés científico-técnico. ¡Esta es una forma de garantizar la calidad de nuestra publicación, y aumentar la visibilidad de los artículos que publicamos!
creator: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
date: 2014-06-25

OSLS indexed in DOAJ
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description: Our online journal has been indexed in DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), a database run by Lund University. All the papers are available in http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&issn=20795971&genre=journal&uiLanguage=en This will increase the diffusion, visibility and accessibility to our scientific knowledge
creator: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
date: 2012-06-29

OSLS indexed in Dialnet
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description: Our online series has been indexed in Dialnet, a collective database held by University of La Rioja. http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/revista?codigo=17509 This will increase the diffusion, visibility and accessibility to our scientific knowledge
creator: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
date: 2012-03-28

Congratulations to those authors of the "Autonomy and Heteronomy of the Judiciary in Europe" issue
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description: Some authors of the "Autonomy and Heteronomy of the Judiciary in Europe" issue have been included in the SSRN's Top Ten download list in some of the journals where it has been submitted Joxerramon Bengoetxea: Seven Theses On Spanish Justice To Understand The Prosecution Of Judge Garzón European Public Law: National eJournal Mar Jimeno Bulnes: Jury Selection and Jury Trial in Spain: Between Theory and Practice LSN: Litigants & the Judiciary (Topic) LSN: Juries (Courts) Alec Stone Sweet: Arbitration and Judicialization LSN: Dispute Resolution (Topic) - CMBO Negotiation & Dispute Resolution eJournal - CMBO Claude Witz: My Experience in Arbitration LSN: Enforcement of Consumer Laws (Topic) LSN: Arbitration (Sub-Topic)
creator: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
date: 2012-02-21

Congratulations to Shahla Ali. Her paper listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list
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description: Shahla Ali's paper, Facilitating Settlement at the Arbitration Table: Comparing Views on Settlement Practice Among Arbitration Practitioners in East Asia and the West SSRN's Top Ten download list in all the journals where it has been submitted: 1. International Economic Law eJournal: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/topten/topTenResults.cfm?groupingId=898503&netorjrnl=jrnl 2. Negotiation & Dispute Resolution eJournal http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/topten/topTenResults.cfm?groupingId=206151&netorjrnl=jrnl 3. Journal of LSN: International Arbitration (Topic) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/topten/topTenResults.cfm?groupingId=990156&netorjrnl=jrnl 4. Law & Society: International & Comparative Law eJournal http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/topten/topTenResults.cfm?groupingId=912330&netorjrnl=jrnl 5. Journal of Law & Culture eJournal http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/topten/topTenResults.cfm?groupingId=943927&netorjrnl=jrnl 6. Journal of LSN: Dispute Resolution (Topic) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/topten/topTenResults.cfm?groupingId=898508&netorjrnl=jrnl 7. International Economic Law eJournal http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/topten/topTenResults.cfm?groupingId=898503&netorjrnl=jrnl 8. Microeconomics: Welfare Economics & Collective Decision-Making eJournal http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/topten/topTenResults.cfm?groupingId=1367770&netorjrnl=jrnl 9. ERN: Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances (Topic) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/topten/topTenResults.cfm?groupingId=1367976&netorjrnl=jrnl
creator: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
date: 2011-12-02