From the Editors

The close of 2025 marks the end of our second year at the helm of Law & Society Review (LSR).As we begin our third and final year as editors, we wanted to take the opportunity to highlight some of the new policies that we have initiated in the previous 2 years, celebrate some of our proudest accomplishments, and share some of the insights we have gleaned from our tenure so far. Exciting new policies and changesAs editors, we have taken it upon ourselves to introduce several new policies and changes that we believe move the journal forward and better support our authors and the law and society field.In particular, we have introduced two policies that we see as particularly author-friendly: First, we have updated our manuscript submission policies so that references are not counted toward the word limit.We have updated the word limit to between 7,000 and 12,500 words excluding references, appendices, figures, and tables.In making this change, we want to encourage authors to cite the relevant literature and not be penalized for doing so.Second, we have removed the requirement that authors relocate their tables and figures to the end of the manuscript for submission; instead, they can leave them in their natural location embedded within the manuscript to ease the submission process for authors and the reading process for reviewers.Next, we have two rather major policy changes that, although also author friendly, are especially important for the field, too.First, we have updated the journal's description, which can be found on the Cambridge website for the journal, the Law and Society Association (LSA) webpage for the journal, and digital and hard copies of LSR. 1 In doing so, we have updated the description of the type of research we publish, including its theoretical and topical content, empirical methods, and types of articles.We have made our international commitment explicit and we removed inaccurate and misleading content from the old description.Finally, we included book reviews in the description, which were historically omitted from the journal's description, but are an equally important part of the journal.We hope this new description will give authors and members of the field generally a more accurate