Legal Research & Analysis (LRA) invites submissions for its Vol. 4, Issue 4 (2026). This is an
opportunity for academics, researchers, practitioners and students to publish rigorous legal scholarship
in a peer-reviewed, open-access international journal, with no publication fee.
About Legal Research & Analysis
Legal Research & Analysis (Leg. Res. Anal.; ISSN 3007-6455 Online, 3007-6447 Print) is a quarterly,
double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by Innovative Insights (SMC-Private)
Limited, Lahore, Pakistan. It publishes research articles, review articles and case comments on all
aspects of law. The journal welcomes doctrinal, theoretical, empirical, comparative and
interdisciplinary scholarship on legal issues, legal systems, the legal profession and law reform. It
particularly values work that connects legal analysis to its social, economic and policy contexts.
Themes include, but are not limited to:
- Constitutional and administrative law
- Criminal law, criminology and criminal justice
- Civil, commercial and corporate law
- International law, human rights and humanitarian law
- Intellectual property and technology law
- Environmental and energy law
- Family, labour and social welfare law
- Legal systems, the judiciary and the legal profession
- Law reform and legislative analysis
- Legal philosophy, law and economics, legal history, socio-legal studies, law and literature, and
feminist legal theory
Submission Categories - Research Articles: Original doctrinal, theoretical, empirical, comparative or interdisciplinary
legal research. - Review Articles: Critical surveys of literature, doctrine or developments in a particular area of
law. - Case Comments: Critical analysis of significant recent judicial decisions and their implications.
Note: The journal does not prescribe a fixed word limit; manuscripts should be complete and concise.
Eligibility Criteria - Academicians and researchers in law
- Judges, judicial officers and legal practitioners
- Policymakers and professionals working on legal issues
- Postgraduate and doctoral scholars (LLM, PhD) and law students
Authors from Pakistan and from all other countries are welcome. Co-authorship is permitted.
Submission Guidelines
- Manuscripts must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration by any other journal.
- Only manuscripts in English are accepted.
- Submissions must be in Microsoft Word format (.doc or .docx), as two files: a title page with the
authors’ names, affiliations, emails and ORCID iDs; and an anonymised manuscript with no
author-identifying information. - The title should preferably not exceed 20 words.
- The abstract should be 150–250 words, without citations.
- Provide 3–10 keywords, in alphabetical order and separated by semicolons.
- Citations must follow the Chicago Manual of Style (author-date). Cases, statutes and other legal
instruments go in numbered footnotes. - All submissions are checked for plagiarism using Turnitin. The similarity index must not exceed
19%. - Any use of generative AI tools must be declared. AI tools cannot be listed as authors.
Access Previous Volumes
Authors are encouraged to read past issues to understand the journal’s scope and style:
https://legalresearchanalysis.com/index.php/LRA/issue/archive
How to Submit - Journal: Legal Research & Analysis (ISSN 3007-6455 (Online), 3007-6447 (Print))
- Issue: Vol. 4, Issue 4 (2026)
- Submission Deadline: 30 December 2026, 11:59 PM (PKT)
- Submit online: https://legalresearchanalysis.com/LRA (“Make a Submission”)
- Author Guidelines: https://legalresearchanalysis.com/LRA/author-guidelines
- Publication Fee: NIL. No submission, processing or publication charges.
- Queries: LRA@innovativejournals.net
