Journal of Corporate Law Studies (Scopus, Q1, Peer-Reviewed) — Call for Special Issue Proposals

The Journal of Corporate Law Studies has opened a call for special issue proposals. This is not a call for individual articles: the journal is inviting scholars to propose and guest-edit a themed special issue. Proposals must reach the editorial office by 1 September 2026.

The Journal of Corporate Law Studies is an established international forum for high quality analysis of corporate law. Contributions range from corporate law and corporate governance over capital markets and broader corporate financial regulation. Companies are at the forefront of the studies in this journal, whether that be in engaging shareholders actively, regulating misbehaviour among directors or determining the aims of corporate management.

The journal encourages global perspectives and interdisciplinary approaches, which understand the importance of financial, economic and political contexts and the impact of technological developments. It is published by Taylor & Francis / Routledge, and the editorial office is based at the School of Law, Queen's University Belfast.

• The call states it is a Q1 journal with an Impact Factor score of 1.5 (2024) and an acceptance rate of 11%.
• Indexed in Scopus, with Scopus coverage from 2013 to 2026 and an SJR of 0.676 (2025), ranked Q1 in Law as per the Scimago Journal Rank record.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd. (Routledge), United Kingdom.
• ISSN: 1473-5970 (Print) and 1757-8426 (Online).

There is no preferred set of themes or topics, nor any prescriptive format for proposals. That said, the editors have indicated that the following are important:

• Fit with the journal.
• Originality of the proposed theme.
• The mechanism for securing high quality publications for the issue.
• The coherence and experience of the proposed special issue editors.

The call notes that successful proposers will be joining a supportive editorial team.

The Editors in Chief are Victoria Barnes, Joan Loughrey, Jennifer Trinks and Sally Wheeler. Lynn Buckley, Ruoying Chen, Osvaldo Lagos Villarreal and Adaeze Okoye serve as Associate Editors. Philip Gavin and Duncan Wallace are the Book Review Editors.

Send your special issue proposal to the JCLS editorial office at editorjcls@qub.ac.uk on or before 1 September 2026. The call does not prescribe a proposal template or word limit, and it states no fee for submitting a proposal.

The call for special issue proposals is published as a PDF hosted on the Society of Legal Scholars website, which lists it under its Calls for Papers page. The Society of Legal Scholars is hosting the announcement; the journal itself is published by Taylor & Francis / Routledge and edited from Queen's University Belfast.