JOAL provides an international forum for academic researchers as well as for practitioners of open legal publishing. Central topics of concern include
-critical construction of legal information methods
-governance of new models of legal publishing
-the relationship between open-access legal information and technology
-projects in open access to law
-the technical challenges and economic opportunities created by open access to law and public sector information
-the economic dimensions of open access to law
-trends and changes suggested by the globalization of access