Aim & Scope

1. Aim

Law, Technology & Society aims to open to academic debate the classical concerns of law while engaging with the forms these concerns take in new contexts shaped by technological transformation and social change. The journal seeks to bring together voices from different theoretical schools, methodological approaches and fields of practice on a common ground for discussion; to make visible original work directed at reconsidering law as an institution, a knowledge practice and a social domain. This aim also carries the responsibility of carrying Turkish-language scholarship into international circulation and bringing international debate to Turkish readers through a venue of high quality.

2. Scope

Classical fields of law. The journal welcomes original contributions across the classical fields of law: constitutional law, criminal law and criminal procedure, administrative and tax law, civil law, commercial and economic law, labour and social security law, public international law and private international law, legal history, philosophy of law and legal theory. In these fields the journal aims to bring together contributions of different kinds, from doctrinal analyses to comparative inquiries and from conceptual–theoretical work to applied studies.

Law and technology. Interdisciplinary work examining the relationship between legal institutions, rights and procedures and technological transformation is among the journal’s distinctive areas of interest. The following topics are welcomed under this axis: the legal regulation of artificial intelligence and algorithmic decision-making; data protection and digital privacy; platform law and the liability of digital intermediaries; cybersecurity and cybercrime; digital rights and freedom of expression; the regulation of fintech and crypto-assets; biotechnology and genome law; surveillance technologies and human rights; autonomous systems and liability regimes.

Law and society. The social workings of law and the ways social practices shape law form another principal axis of the journal’s interests. The following topics are welcomed under this axis: empirical socio-legal research; legal anthropology and ethnography; access to justice; studies of legal consciousness and legal awareness; law and gender; the social dimensions of migration and refugee law; environmental law and climate justice; the sociology of the legal profession; alternative dispute resolution.

Out of scope. The journal does not publish work limited to summaries of legislation or single court decisions without a scholarly argument; rewrites without an original contribution; or material of a textbook or lecture-notes character.

3. Accepted Article Types

The journal accepts original contributions of the following types:

• Research article. Full-length manuscripts developed around an original research question, supported by theoretical or empirical evidence, and making a clear contribution to an area within the journal’s scope.
• Review article. Manuscripts that systematically assess existing scholarship on a given topic, identify trends and gaps in the field, and are prepared by invitation or on the author’s initiative.
• Case study and judicial analysis. Studies that analyse a significant court decision, administrative practice or specific legal event in terms of theoretical framework, comparative perspective or social consequences.
• Commentary. Short, critical and focused assessments of a recent legislative change, judicial decision or policy development.

4. Target Readership

The journal addresses legal scholars, doctoral and postgraduate researchers, legal practitioners (judges, prosecutors, attorneys and legal counsel), specialists who contribute to public administration and judicial policy, and readers from a range of disciplines interested in the social and technological dimensions of law.