The Legal Design Journal is the first online journal dedicated solely to Legal Design.
At the intersection of law, justice and design.
A Home Where New Ideas Can Grow
The Legal Design Journal is the first online journal dedicated solely to Legal Design.
At the intersection of law, justice and design.
Our goal is to provide a platform for high quality legal design work, and to make it as accessible as possible.
Structure of the Journal
The Journal is comprised of three elements. These represent different facets of legal design: academic and scholarly; applied and practical; contemporary and cutting edge.
Call for Submissions!
Submit your Legal Design story or article now.
Issue 2 (1)
- Call for submissions start: 1 January 2025
- Deadline for submissions: 28 February 2025
- Decisions and feedback: late May 2025
Issue 2 (2)
- Call for submissions start: 1 August 2025
- Deadline for submissions: 26 September 2025
- Decisions and feedback: early December2025
Meet the team
The original organizers of this journal come from four continents, eleven countries, sixteen academic institutions, fifteen organizations, and countless perspectives.
The Team
Why publish with us?
Reputation
The editorial teams are comprised of many of the leading legal design academics and practitioners from around the world.
Diamond open access
We are a diamond open-access journal, digital and completely free to readers, authors and their institutions. We charge no processing fees for authors or institutions. The journal uses a Creative Commons BY 4.0 licence.
Rigour and quality
We are using double blind peer review for Articles and editorial review for the Studio. Articles are hosted on Scholastica which is optimised for search and integration with academic indices, Google Scholar etc.