Diversity, Equity and Accessibility

JLGRS welcomes scholarship from different jurisdictions, institutions, methods and career stages. Editorial assessment is based on the work’s scholarly quality and relevance.

Authors should use respectful language and explain terminology that has a contested, jurisdiction-specific or historical meaning. Quotations from legal or historical sources should be contextualised where necessary without obscuring their original meaning.

Manuscripts should use meaningful headings, descriptive table titles and captions, readable graphics and text alternatives for figures. Information should not depend on colour alone. Authors should provide editable tables and selectable text rather than avoidable image-only content.

Readers and contributors may contact the editorial office to report an accessibility problem or request a reasonable alternative format. The journal will assess the request and available means of assistance.

The editorial team should consider a range of relevant perspectives when appointing reviewers and avoid assumptions about research quality based on institutional prestige or the author’s background.