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Use when scoping or pitching a topic for a Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript — testing whether the question is a genuine law-economics-organization / positive-political-economy contribution rather than a sibling-journal fit. Sharpens the question and its audience; it does not design identification or build the model.

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# Topic Selection (jleo-topic-selection)

## When to trigger

- You have a result or a model and are unsure whether JLEO is the right home versus JLE, JLS, ALER, or Organization Science
- A reduced-form finding about a legal rule exists but the *institutional or organizational* payoff is not yet articulated
- A coauthor asks "is this law-and-economics enough, or is it really just applied micro / political science?"
- A formal PPE model is built but its connection to a real institution (a legislature, a court, a regulatory agency, a firm boundary) is thin
- The topic feels adjacent to JLEO but the organization/governance angle has not been made the headline

## What JLEO actually rewards

JLEO was founded in 1985 by **Williamson and Mashaw** to host the law-economics-**organization** synthesis, and its center of gravity has stayed there. A JLEO topic earns its place when the payoff is an **institutional or organizational claim** — about why a governance structure, contract form, or political institution takes the shape it does, and what follows. Run the candidate topic through these tests:
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