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Use when deciding whether a law-and-economics project belongs at The Journal of Law and Economics (JLE) rather than the Journal of Legal Studies, JLEO, or the American Law and Economics Review, and what its central legal/regulatory question should be. Sets venue fit and question scope; it does not design the identification (see jle-identification).

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# Topic Selection & Venue Fit (jle-topic-selection)

## When to trigger

- A project analyzes a law, a regulation, a court, or a legal institution economically, but you are unsure it is "JLE-shaped"
- The question reads like doctrinal legal scholarship, an organizational-governance study, or a generic applied-micro paper — and you need to place it
- The same dataset (court records, enforcement actions, statute panels) supports several framings and you must pick the one that lands here
- A co-author asks "why JLE and not the Journal of Legal Studies or JLEO?"

## The JLE fit test

JLE wants **economic analysis of law, regulation, and legal institutions** where a **real legal/regulatory question** is answered with a **credible empirical design or a disciplined theoretical model**, in the Chicago price-theory-plus-institutions tradition. The legal rule or institution must be load-bearing — not background color for a generic economics paper, and not a doctrinal argument dressed in regression.

| Signal in your project | Likely fit |
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