SSRN Announcement: Hart Publishing Joins Legal Scholarship Network

Hart Publishing Joins Legal Scholarship Network

We are pleased to announce the addition of nine new Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) abstracting journals from Hart Publishing, an independent and privately owned law publisher located in Oxford, United Kingdom.

DISTRIBUTING eJOURNALS
The following five titles are now distributing eJournals. You can subscribe to any of them by clicking on the "Subscribe" link listed below each journal's title.

Law and Financial Markets Review
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Editor: Roger McCormick (Director, Law and Financial Markets Project, London School of Economics)
Description: The Law and Financial Markets Review (LFMR) is a new, independent, English-language journal devoted to providing high quality information, comment, and analysis for lawyers specializing in banking and financial market issues and to others with interests in legal and regulatory developments affecting the financial markets. Published bi-monthly, LFMR contains articles written by leading experts, providing a forum for practical guidance on, as well as reflective and topical analysis of, all major jurisdictions, with a particular focus on the interaction between the law and market practice and behavior.

European Competition Journal
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Editors: Simon Bishop (Partner, RBB Economics) and Philip Marsden (Director, The Competition Law Forum, British Institute of International and Comparative Law)
Description: This journal is designed to complement and augment the existing literature with a special focus on European developments, including Vertical and Conglomerate Mergers, Enlargement of the Union, Unilateral and Coordinated Effects in Merger Control, Modernization of European Competition Law, Cartels and Leniency, and Article 82 -- Restatement or Evolution? The European Competition Journal is published twice a year, appearing in the spring and autumn.

Journal of Corporate Law Studies
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Editors: John Armour (Lovells Professor of Law and Finance, University of Oxford), Eilis Ferran (Professor of Corporate Law and Financial Regulation,University of Cambridge), Jesper Lau Hansen (Professor of Financial Market Law, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law), Richard C. Nolan (Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Cambridge and St. John's College, Cambridge; Door Tenant, Erskine Chambers, Lincoln's Inn), and Jennifer Payne (Travers Smith University Lecturer in Corporate Finance)
Description: The Journal of Corporate Law Studies provides a forum for scholarship on corporate, securities, and financial law broadly construed. Thus, the journal publishes articles on subjects as diverse as insolvency and the commercial conflict of laws, in addition to mainstream topics such as directors' duties and financial regulation. The journal also embraces interdisciplinary work and work in cognate fields. It is published twice a year, appearing in June and October.

Law and Humanities
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Editors: Paul Raffield and Gary Watt (both from Warwick School of Law, University of Warwick)
Description: Law and Humanities is a peer-reviewed journal, providing a forum for scholarly discourse within the arts and humanities around the subject of law. For this purpose, the arts and humanities disciplines are taken to include literature, history (including history of art), philosophy, theology, classics, and the whole spectrum of performance and representational arts. Law and Humanities is principally concerned to engage with those aspects of human experience that are not empirically quantifiable or scientifically predictable. Law and Humanities is published twice a year, appearing in July and December.

Legal Ethics
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Editor: Kim M. Economides (School of Law, University of Exeter)
Description: Legal Ethics is an international and interdisciplinary journal devoted to the field of legal ethics. It is intended to provide an intellectual meeting ground for academic lawyers, practitioners, and policy-makers to debate developments shaping the ethics of law and its practice at the micro and macro levels. Its focus is broad enough to encompass empirical research on the ethics and conduct of the legal professions and judiciary, studies of legal ethics education and moral development, ethics development in contemporary professional practice, the ethical responsibilities of law schools, professional bodies and government, and the jurisprudential or wider philosophical reflections on law as an ethical system and on the moral obligations of individual lawyers.

NON-DISTRIBUTING eJOURNALS
The following four journals are also available, but will not distribute. You can view the papers associated with each journal by clicking on the "View Papers" link listed below each journal's title.

Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal
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Editor: Barbara Lauriat (Oxford University Faculty of Law)
Description: The Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal (OUCLJ) is the flagship journal of Oxford University's postgraduate law community, produced under the aegis of the Law Faculty. It is published twice-yearly and endeavors to foster international academic debate and exchange on a wide range of legal topics of interest throughout the Commonwealth.

King's Law Journal
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Editor: Charles Mitchell (School of Law, King's College London)
Description: The King's Law Journal is published on behalf of The School of Law, King's College London. The journal aims to publish new work of the highest caliber across the full range of legal scholarship, including work in the history, philosophy, and sociology of law. Established in 1990, it was known as the King’s College Law Journal until 2007 when it became the King's Law Journal.

Legisprudence
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Editors: Jaap Hage (Department of Metajuridica, University of Maastricht) and Luc J. Wintgens (Director, Centre for Legislation, Regulation and Legisprudence, K.U. Brussels)
Description: Legisprudence aims at contributing to the improvement of legislation by studying the processes of legislation from the perspective of legal theory. The content of the journal covers legislation in a broad sense. This comprises legislation in both the formal and material sense (from national and European parliaments, regulation, international law) and alternatives to legislation (covenants, sunset legislation, etc.). It also takes in regulation (pseudo-legislation, codes of behavior and deontological codes, etc.).

Journal of Private International Law
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Editors: Paul R. Beaumont (Professor of European Union and Private International Law, School of Law, University of Aberdeen) and Jonathan Harris (Professor of International Commercial Law, School of Law, University of Birmingham)
Description: The Journal of Private International Law covers all aspects of private international law, reflecting on the role of the European Union and the Hague Conference on Private International Law in the making of private international law, in addition to the traditional role of domestic legal orders. It is published twice per year.

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OTHER LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP NETWORK JOURNALS
The Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) also publishes other email abstracting journals. You can subscribe to these journals through the SSRN User HeadQuarters at http://hq.ssrn.com.

Sincerely,

Bernie Black
Director
Legal Scholarship Network

Posted 4/24/08