jleo-topic-selection
Use when scoping or pitching a topic for a Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript — testing whether the question is a genuine law-economics-organization / positive-political-economy contribution rather than a sibling-journal fit. Sharpens the question and its audience; it does not design identification or build the model.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jleo-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 (jleo-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - You have a result or a model and are unsure whether JLEO is the right home versus JLE, JLS, ALER, or Organization Science - A reduced-form finding about a legal rule exists but the *institutional or organizational* payoff is not yet articulated - A coauthor asks "is this law-and-economics enough, or is it really just applied micro / political science?" - A formal PPE model is built but its connection to a real institution (a legislature, a court, a regulatory agency, a firm boundary) is thin - The topic feels adjacent to JLEO but the organization/governance angle has not been made the headline ## What JLEO actually rewards JLEO was founded in 1985 by **Williamson and Mashaw** to host the law-economics-**organization** synthesis, and its center of gravity has stayed there. A JLEO topic earns its place when the payoff is an **institutional or organizational claim** — about why a governance structure, contract form, or political institution takes the shape it does, and what follows. Run the candidate topic through these tests: 1. **The organization test.** Is there a genuine *organization* — a firm boundary, a hierarchy, a
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What does the jleo-topic-selection skill do?
Use when scoping or pitching a topic for a Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript — testing whether the question is a genuine law-economics-organization / positive-political-economy contribution rather than a sibling-journal fit. Sharpens the question and its audience; it does not design identification or build the model.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jleo-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.