Advancing legal scholarship through rigorous peer review, open access publishing, and academic collaboration.
The International Journal of Legal Research, Management and Social Studies (IJLRMSS) was founded to publish rigorous, accessible scholarship that bridges law, management, and the social sciences—serving researchers, practitioners, and policymakers across South Asia and the wider Global South.
Traditional academic journals often remain siloed behind paywalls or constrained by narrow disciplinary focus. We believe that high-quality research should be freely available to judges, managers, policymakers, practitioners, students, and citizens alike.
Our mission is to publish work that advances understanding of contemporary legal, managerial, and social issues through interdisciplinary lenses—drawing from law, management studies, political science, sociology, economics, and related fields. We are committed to peer review that is both demanding and constructive, ensuring every published article meets the highest standards of originality, clarity, and relevance.
By maintaining immediate open access under CC-BY and actively supporting authors from underrepresented institutions, we seek to democratize access to knowledge and amplify voices that shape the future of law, management, and society.
Legal systems, organisations, and societies face unprecedented challenges from technology, climate change, inequality, and shifting geopolitics. Traditional publishing models have not kept pace. IJLRMSS exists to publish scholarship that is both intellectually rigorous and practically relevant to these transformations across law, management, and social studies.
Many journals prioritize citation counts over impact, operate with opaque processes, and remain inaccessible to the very communities most affected by the issues they analyze. Slow review cycles and paywalls stifle the timely exchange of ideas between academia, practice, and civil society.
When scholarship is immediately and freely available, it reaches judges drafting opinions, managers shaping organisations, legislators drafting policy, NGOs litigating cases, and students shaping their careers. Our authors regularly see their work cited in courts, policy debates, and institutional practice.
Average time from submission to publication: 68 days
All submissions undergo rigorous originality verification.
Every manuscript screened with industry-leading tools.
Independent expert review of every submission.
Adheres to COPE guidelines and international research ethics.
CC-BY licensing with no paywalls or APC barriers for Global South authors.
Transparent metrics and full reference verification.
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