A glowing network of scholars rising to an apex beside the scales of justice and growth bars

VIJLMSS · Open-access · Peer-reviewed · Published monthly

Law, management, and society scholarship for students and early-career authors.

VIJLMSS publishes original research across law, management, public policy and social sciences, governance, and the social sciences — with transparent peer review and an editorial process built to give students and early-career researchers candid, timely decisions.

Submit Manuscript →Author Guidelines

Scope

Law & legal studies

Doctrinal, socio-legal, comparative, and empirical legal scholarship — rights, regulation, courts, access to justice, and law in society.

Management & organisations

Organisational studies, governance, strategy, and public, non-profit, and institutional management by emerging researchers.

Public policy & society

Policy analysis, governance, education, and the social sciences — including field reports from policy labs and classroom-as-research studies.

Methods & interdisciplinary practice

Doctrinal and empirical methods, mixed-method studies, and reflexive accounts of socio-legal and interdisciplinary research practice by emerging scholars.

Why publish with VIJLMSS?

  • Student-friendly review with transparent editorial checks and mentor-style decisions.
  • Open access from day one under CC BY 4.0 — no paywalls, no embargo.
  • Candid early decisions — a transparent first response on fit and scope, without inflated speed claims.
  • Indexing-ready workflow — DOI, ORCID, and OAI-PMH metadata from issue one (registrations applied for).

Editorial & Reviewer Applications

ScholarVertex Publications is constituting the editorial team and reviewer panel for VIJLMSS. We invite qualified academics, researchers, and practitioners to apply — there is no fee to apply, and applying creates no obligation on either side. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Open roles: Editor-in-Chief · Associate Editor · Advisory / Editorial Board Member · Reviewer. Confirmed appointments are listed on the journal’s Editorial Board page as they are made.

Apply onlineFull requirements

ISSN (Online): applied · CC BY 4.0 · OAI-PMH enabled · Editorial contact: [email protected]