About the Journal

Thai Legal Studies (TLS) is an open-access online journal published in English by the Faculty of Law of Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand (TU Law). It seeks to publish original articles reflecting high quality research and analysis about the legal system in Thailand, including its laws, institutions, and jurisprudence, as well about legal issues more generally affecting Thailand. For scholarly articles, TLS uses the double-blind method of peer review whereby neither the author nor the reviewers know the identity of the others involved in the process. A minimum of two reviewers will be chosen. On request by an author, a third reviewer will be chosen if such is required for purposes of academic advancement.

In addition, Thai Legal Studies publishes shorter works, such as opinions or comments about specific legislation, court decisions, or previously published TLS articles, current developments, book reviews, and summaries of articles previously published in Thai. TLS also welcomes the submission of fully translated articles previously published in Thai, the aim being to provide greater worldwide accessibility to Thai scholarship and thought.

While Thai Legal Studies is an academic rather than a “professional” journal, it nonetheless should be of interest to judges, officials, legislators, and law reformers, as well as scholars and students from a variety of disciplines. It will also inform the international community of legal thought and legal development in Thailand.

Thammasat University (TU), as one of Thailand’s leading universities, aspires to internationalize its programs and activities and also become a leading university in Asia. Publishing work of an international standard is a major aspect of this policy, and Thai Legal Studies is fully supported by TU Law. As a consequence, TLS does not accept advertising nor charge any fees or other payment from authors wishing to submit manuscripts and have their work published in TLS.

Authors retain copyright and publishing rights without restrictions to their work, but grant TLS the right of first publication in English and to distribute the work under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (“CC BY 4.0”).  Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the TLS published version of the work (e.g., post it, including any earlier versions of the manuscript, to an institutional or other repository, or to publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in Thai Legal Studies.

As TLS is an open-access online journal, there is no charge or fee for readers to immediately view published articles or content. Under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License, users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to the full texts of the articles, make translations, or use the content for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from Thai Legal Studies or the author(s), the only requirement being that an acknowledgement is given of the work’s authorship and its initial publication in English by Thai Legal Studies. 

Thai Legal Studies is a Tier 2 qualified academic journal listed in the Thai-Journal Citation Index (TCI) and publishes two issues per calendar year, in July and December. It maintains its own URL as an easy entry portal to the journal <https://tls.law.tu.ac.th>, but the substantive content is hosted by Thai Journals Online (ThaiJO) and, from July 2025, is archived with TCI. The editorial staff uses Open Journal Systems (OJS) as its workflow management platform.

[Updated 02 May 2025]