International Journal of Legal Science & Innovation
IJLSI is an open-access journal of law and the legal sciences, published bi-monthly by VidhiAagaz from Madhya Pradesh, India. Founded in June 2018, it is double-blind peer-reviewed, ISO 9001:2015 certified, and carries an Impact Factor of 6.002 (2026). Every issue is devoted to a single purpose — reinforcing innovation in the conduct of law.
About the Journal
An open-access platform for law and the legal sciences
The International Journal of Legal Science and Innovation [ISSN 2581-9453 (Online)] is a bi-monthly, double-blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted exclusively to law and the legal sciences. Founded in June 2018 and published by VidhiAagaz, it is certified ISO 9001:2015 and carries an Impact Factor of 6.002 (2026).
IJLSI was founded with a single conviction: that the study and practice of law should be a site of continuous innovation. Our tagline — reinforcing innovation in the conduct of law — is also our editorial mandate. We seek scholarship that does more than describe the law as it stands; we look for work that questions doctrine, anticipates reform, and engages the new legal problems created by technology, data, and a rapidly changing society.
The Journal is fully open access. Every article is freely available worldwide, without charge, paywall, or embargo, the moment it is published. We deliberately keep the threshold to participation low so that a final-year law student, a practising advocate, a trial-court judge, and a senior academic can all contribute to legal discourse on the merits of their work alone.
Each manuscript is screened for originality using Turnitin and Drillbit — without submission of the work to any external repository — and is then assessed under a strict double-blind review in which the identities of authors and reviewers are withheld from one another. Accepted papers are published on a rolling basis and indexed for discoverability across recognised legal and academic databases.
From the Founding Editor
Why a journal of legal innovation?
When IJLSI was launched in June 2018, most Indian law reviews were built to record the law as it already was. We wanted to build something that looked forward instead — a journal where doctrine could be tested against new technologies, new institutions, and new social facts, and where a strong argument mattered more than the letterhead it arrived on.
The name was chosen with care. Legal science signals our commitment to rigour and method; innovation signals our interest in where the law is going next. Across our volumes we have published work on constitutional design, criminal justice, corporate and intellectual-property law, and the fast-moving frontier where data, artificial intelligence and regulation now meet.
We are grateful to every author, reviewer, editor and reader who has shaped this journal. IJLSI remains, above all, a scholarly community — and it grows stronger with each issue.
“An open-access journal of law and the legal sciences, reinforcing innovation in the conduct of law.”
Editorial Standards
How we safeguard quality
IJLSI applies a consistent, transparent process to every manuscript. Our standards are built around four commitments — rigorous review, research integrity, genuine open access, and editorial independence — that together define what it means to publish with the Journal.
Aims & Scope
Scope of publication
IJLSI is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed journal that publishes original, unpublished scholarship across the full breadth of law and the legal sciences. We welcome doctrinal, empirical, comparative and interdisciplinary legal research, and we are especially interested in work at the frontier of legal innovation. The lists below are illustrative, not exhaustive.
- Constitutional Law & Theory
- Administrative Law & Governance
- International & Comparative Law
- Human Rights & Civil Liberties
- Public Policy & the State
- Environmental & Climate Law
- Election & Constitutional Reform
- and allied areas of public law →
- Criminal Law & Procedure
- Contract & Tort Law
- Property & Family Law
- Corporate & Commercial Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- Banking, Finance & Securities
- Competition & Consumer Law
- and allied areas of private law →
- Technology, Data & AI Law
- Cyber Law & Data Protection
- Jurisprudence & Legal Theory
- Law & Economics
- Access to Justice & Legal Reform
- Regulation of Emerging Tech
- Legal Innovation & Empirical Studies
- and emerging areas of legal innovation →
The lists above are indicative only. IJLSI accepts any original manuscript that falls within the broad domain of law and the legal sciences — including interdisciplinary work that connects law with technology, policy, economics or society. If you are unsure whether your topic is within scope, write to us at submission@ijlsi.com and we will respond, ordinarily within 24 hours.
What Sets Us Apart
What makes IJLSI distinctive
Among legal journals, IJLSI occupies a deliberate niche: a focus on legal innovation, paired with a genuinely open and merit-first publishing model.
Policies & Ethics
Editorial policies and author guidelines
All policies are published in full on the Journal website and are binding on authors, reviewers and editors alike.
Contact & Submissions
Manuscripts accepted on a rolling basis
Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis through the online system or by email. There is no charge at submission — article processing charges, where applicable, apply only upon acceptance.