Aims and Scope

The Journal of Computational Law and Legal Technology is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing scholarship at the intersection of law, computer science, and emerging legal technologies. The journal aims to foster critical discourse and disseminate cutting-edge research that explores how computational methods, data science, artificial intelligence, and digital systems are transforming legal theory, practice, governance, and access to justice. The journal welcomes theoretical, empirical, technical, and doctrinal work from scholars, practitioners, and technologists worldwide.

Journal of Computational Law and Legal Technology invites high-quality submissions that fall within, but are not limited to, the following areas:

Computational Methods in Law

  • Computational theories of law
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications in legal text analysis
  • Knowledge representation, knowledge engineering, and ontologies in the legal domain
  • Legal reasoning and rule-based systems
  • Machine learning and predictive analytics for legal outcomes
  • Computational methods for AI and Data Governance
  • Formal logics and computational models of legal reasoning and decision-making

Legal Informatics and Information Systems

  • Legal information retrieval
  • Information extraction from legal databases and texts
  • Development of intelligent legal assistants and chatbots
  • Blockchain applications in the legal domain
  • Automated legal document generation and summarization
  • Case management systems and digital court technologies
  • Interoperability and standards for legal data exchange

Legal Technology and Innovation

  • LegalTech startups, tools, and their socio-legal impact
  • Ethics, bias, and fairness in algorithmic decision-making in legal contexts
  • RegTech (Regulatory Technology) and compliance automation
  • Computational approaches to access to justice and legal empowerment
  • Normative frameworks for governing AI and autonomous systems
  • Digital transformation in the legal domain
  • Automation and digital transformation of legal processes
  • Empirical studies on the adoption and impact of legal tech in practice