The ABLJ's mission is to publish the highest quality manuscripts in business law and legal studies. The terms "business law" and "legal studies" are broadly construed at the ABLJ for purposes of publication. This broad construction necessarily and rightly invites submissions from a variety of business-related legal topics. I was curious to see what manuscripts were actually published. I thought it would be interesting to go back and review the last five full volumes of the ABLJ to see if hindsight offers anything of interest. Things of interest would include the topical areas of law that are most represented and whether any trends can be noticed over the course of the last five years. In reviewing the data, I also made note of the number of articles with an international or comparative law dimension, as well as the number of non-American authors or coauthors. Before I share the results, I would like to state two caveats. First, any classification of legal typology is necessarily an arbitrary one. I did my best to group the articles published on traditional topical areas. Second, numerous papers had multiple dimensions that crossed subject areas.
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