jle-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a law-and-economics project belongs at The Journal of Law and Economics (JLE) rather than the Journal of Legal Studies, JLEO, or the American Law and Economics Review, and what its central legal/regulatory question should be. Sets venue fit and question scope; it does not design the identification (see jle-identification).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jle-topic-selection --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Topic Selection & Venue Fit (jle-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - A project analyzes a law, a regulation, a court, or a legal institution economically, but you are unsure it is "JLE-shaped" - The question reads like doctrinal legal scholarship, an organizational-governance study, or a generic applied-micro paper — and you need to place it - The same dataset (court records, enforcement actions, statute panels) supports several framings and you must pick the one that lands here - A co-author asks "why JLE and not the Journal of Legal Studies or JLEO?" ## The JLE fit test JLE wants **economic analysis of law, regulation, and legal institutions** where a **real legal/regulatory question** is answered with a **credible empirical design or a disciplined theoretical model**, in the Chicago price-theory-plus-institutions tradition. The legal rule or institution must be load-bearing — not background color for a generic economics paper, and not a doctrinal argument dressed in regression. | Signal in your project | Likely fit | |------------------------|-----------| | A legal rule / regulation / enforcement regime changes behavior, and you identify the effect credibly | **JLE** (core)
- When to trigger
- The JLE fit test
- Sharpening the question (do this before writing anything)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- The field areas JLE is built for
- Sibling-placement quick test
- Output format
What does the jle-topic-selection skill do?
Use when deciding whether a law-and-economics project belongs at The Journal of Law and Economics (JLE) rather than the Journal of Legal Studies, JLEO, or the American Law and Economics Review, and what its central legal/regulatory question should be. Sets venue fit and question scope; it does not design the identification (see jle-identification).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jle-topic-selection --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.