Comparative Law Research Topics for International Authors Submitting to LJLPS

If you are looking for a comparative law topic to write up for an international, open-access journal, here are areas that tend to produce strong, publishable papers — and that fit well with LJLPS’s interest in comparative and South Asian-adjacent scholarship.

Constitutional and public law

Judicial review standards across jurisdictions; emergency powers and constitutional limits; federalism and centre-state (or equivalent) relations; comparative approaches to fundamental rights adjudication.

Technology and data law

Comparing data-protection frameworks (for example, the EU’s GDPR, India’s DPDP Act, and your own jurisdiction’s equivalent); platform liability and intermediary rules; AI governance approaches.

Criminal justice and human rights

Comparative sentencing frameworks; pre-trial detention practices; victims’ rights regimes; comparative approaches to a specific offence category.

Commercial and corporate law

Comparative insolvency frameworks; corporate governance codes; cross-border contract enforcement; comparative approaches to arbitration.

Policy and social sciences

Comparative labour-law reform; comparative approaches to a social-welfare scheme; comparative environmental regulation.

Whatever the topic, keep the comparison genuinely analytical — not just a side-by-side description of two systems — and ground every claim in primary sources. See the call for papers to check current thematic priorities, if any, before you start writing.