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American Journal of Law & Medicine

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ15761455 ↗
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The American Journal of Law & Medicine is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering health law. It was established in 1975 and was published by SAGE Publishing till December 2020, in association with both Boston University School of Law and the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics. Starting January 2021, the journal is published by Cambridge University Press. The editor-in-chief is Edward J. Hutchinson (American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics).

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 0.5.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975, 2020, 2021, 2023—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1975-01-01. The account is most persuasive where American, Journal and Medicine can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “American Journal of Law & Medicine” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.