To be announced
Editorial appointments
Editorial names and appointments will be published when they are confirmed.
Editorial formationIn preparation · An international journal of legal history
The life of law in time, reasoned in history
Acta Juris Historici is an independent international journal in preparation. It will publish scholarship on legal history—the making of legal traditions, the life of institutions, and the study of law in its sources across time.
Launch details, editorial appointments, and submission information will be announced when confirmed.
Ancient & medieval law
Roman law, canon law, and the law of earlier traditions.
Early modern & modern law
Codification, legal science, and the formation of modern law.
Chinese legal history
The classical tradition, legal forms, and institutions of Chinese law.
Comparative legal history
Cross-tradition studies, legal transplants, and historical method.
About the journal
Legal history as an argument, not only a chronicle
Acta Juris Historici will publish scholarship that takes legal history seriously as argument, as an institutional achievement, and as a form of historical understanding.
The journal welcomes work in the tradition of historical legal scholarship—Roman law, canon law, the law of the middle ages and the early modern period, the history of codification, and Chinese legal history—as well as scholarship that situates law in its social, economic, and intellectual context. It will publish comparative legal history, legal thought and institutions, and work that crosses disciplinary boundaries.
The journal is being developed as an independent, international forum. It is committed to careful editorial work, serious engagement with argument, and scholarship that is accessible to readers across jurisdictions and traditions.
Topics covered by the journal
- Roman law
- Canon law
- Medieval law
- Early modern law
- History of codification
- Chinese legal history
- Legal thought and institutions
- Comparative legal history
- Historical method
- Law and society in history
Publication model
Open access. Published online.
Acta Juris Historici will be an open-access journal, published online. No article processing charge (APC) is currently planned.
- Access
- Open access
- Distribution
- Online
- APC
- None at present
- Status
- In preparation
- Publication model
- Open access · Online
- APC
- None at present
- First issue
- In preparation
- Editorial appointments
- To be announced
- Submission information
- To be added
Information to be added
Call for papers
Submission guidelines and any call for papers will be published here when available.
Submission informationConfirmed
Publication model
The journal will publish open access, online, with no APC at present. Issue and launch details will be added when available.
Publication model & APCA journal in preparation
Learn about the journal as it takes shape.
The scope is set: ancient and medieval law, early modern and modern law, Chinese legal history, and comparative legal history. Launch and submission information will be published when confirmed.
No issue has yet been published · Submission information will be added here