23 Best Legal Book Publishing Companies (Submissions)

If you’re writing a casebook, a practitioner guide or a legal monograph, you need a publisher that knows how lawyers, students and courts actually use books. Here are 23 legal publishers across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia, with how to approach each one.

Legal publishing splits into a few kinds of house. The big information companies build reference works and online services for practitioners. University and academic presses publish scholarship and monographs. Education publishers produce casebooks and textbooks for law schools and colleges. A few specialists serve a single country or a single area of practice. Most of the companies below invite proposals through an editor, so the right first step is usually a short proposal, not a finished manuscript. For a wider view, browse my directory of publishing companies.

Submission policies change without notice, so check the publisher’s own page before you send anything, and never pay a reading fee. Last verified: October 1, 2026.

Here’s a list of the most notable companies in legal publishing:

1. Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters is one of the largest providers of legal, regulatory and business information in the world, and its legal arm publishes the reference works, treatises and practice tools many lawyers use daily. Its titles reach law firms, courts, governments and corporate legal teams in many countries.

Thomson Reuters accepts proposals for new legal products through its editorial submissions page, which links to a short proposal form. It’s a good fit if your book serves practitioners and could grow into an ongoing reference work. Submission guidelines.

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2. LexisNexis

LexisNexis, part of RELX, is a legal and professional information company best known for its research services and its Practical Guidance platform. Much of what it publishes today is online content written by practicing attorneys: practice notes, templates and checklists that explain how to handle real matters.

Its author route is built around that platform. Attorneys can fill in a contributing author request form to write Practical Guidance content, which suits a lawyer who wants to publish expertise in shorter pieces before, or alongside, a full book. Contributing author form.

3. Wolters Kluwer

Wolters Kluwer is a global professional information company serving legal, tax, health and finance professionals. For book authors, its most relevant brand is Kluwer Law International, which publishes books and journals in international legal niches such as arbitration, competition law and tax, written by practitioners and scholars.

Kluwer Law International welcomes proposals for new products in English, aimed at international legal professionals. Its author pages include book guidelines and a house style guide, so read both before you pitch. Submission guidelines.

4. Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford and the world’s largest university press, with a printing history that reaches back to 1478. Its law list covers student textbooks, scholarly monographs and practitioner works, and an Oxford law title carries real weight with academics and reviewers.

OUP commissions books through subject editors, so start by finding the law editor for your area on its site and asking how they prefer to receive a proposal.

5. Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is part of the University of Cambridge and publishes academic books and journals across nearly every discipline, including a large law list. It’s also the world’s oldest Bible publisher, a reminder of how long it has been in the business of authoritative texts.

Cambridge accepts proposals for academic books through its subject editors. Its author hub lets you find the editor who covers your field and explains what to include in a proposal. Submission guidelines.

6. Sweet & Maxwell

Sweet & Maxwell is the UK legal publisher within Thomson Reuters, working alongside W. Green in Scotland and Round Hall in Ireland. Together they have a 225-year heritage and publish hundreds of books, looseleafs and periodicals across all areas of law, some in partnership with professional bodies.

Its Author Hub explains why to publish with the group and what the editorial process looks like, with market-facing publishers who stay with you from proposal to publication. If you write for UK or Irish practitioners, start there. Author Hub.

7. West Academic

West Academic, based in St. Paul, Minnesota, is one of the main American publishers of law school casebooks, treatises and study aids. It publishes under the West Academic Publishing and Foundation Press imprints, and its books are written for law students, professors and practitioners.

West Academic accepts proposals by mail or email: send an outline or table of contents, a letter describing the market, your CV and a sample chapter to the editor in chief of the right imprint. The full instructions are on its West Academic Authors site.

8. Hart Publishing

Hart Publishing, founded in Oxford in 1996, is the law imprint of Bloomsbury and one of the most respected names in academic legal publishing. Its list runs from student textbooks to research monographs and practitioner works, across commercial, constitutional, European, human rights and criminal law.

Hart accepts proposals through Bloomsbury’s academic process: contact the commissioning editor for your area of law, then send a full proposal, which is usually peer reviewed before a contract is offered.

9. ABA Books

ABA Publishing is the book program of the American Bar Association. It publishes practical books for lawyers, often developed with the association’s sections and divisions, covering everything from trial advocacy to bankruptcy, law practice management and career development.

The ABA accepts proposals through an author proposal form on its publishing page. Because so many titles come through the sections, it also helps to talk to the section that covers your practice area. Submission guidelines.

10. Brill

Brill, founded in Leiden in 1683 and now part of De Gruyter Brill, is an academic publisher of books, journals and reference works in the humanities and social sciences. It’s especially well known in international law, where it publishes works such as The Hague Academy’s Collected Courses.

Brill welcomes book proposals: prepare a proposal following its guidelines and send it to the acquisitions editor for your subject. Submission guidelines.

11. Larcier Intersentia

Larcier Intersentia brings together several long-established legal publishing brands from Belgium and Luxembourg, including Larcier, Bruylant and Intersentia. It serves lawyers, notaries and academics, and its English-language Intersentia list is a home for European and comparative legal scholarship.

Larcier Intersentia accepts book proposals by email. Its guidelines ask for a book description, a critical literature review that sets your book against competing titles, a table of contents and sample chapters or the full manuscript. Submission guidelines.

12. SAGE Publishing

Sage is an independent academic publisher of textbooks, reference works and journals across the social sciences. It isn’t a law house as such, but its criminology, criminal justice and research methods lists make it a fit for books where law meets society.

Sage accepts book proposals through a commissioning editor, and its author pages explain how to put one together. Authors based in the US are pointed to the Sage College Publishing team for textbooks. Submission guidelines.

13. Stanford University Press

Stanford University Press publishes scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences, plus trade nonfiction under its Redwood Press imprint. Its list suits legal scholars whose work reaches into history, politics, society or ideas, more than practitioners writing how-to guides.

Stanford accepts proposals in the form of a prospectus, not a full manuscript, sent to the one acquisitions editor whose list fits your book best. Submission guidelines.

14. Edward Elgar Publishing

Edward Elgar Publishing is an independent, family-owned academic and professional publisher with about 40 years behind it. Law is one of its largest areas, with separate academic and professional law lists alongside economics, business and public policy, and it publishes many research handbooks and monograph series.

Elgar commissions through subject editors, so look for the law editor who covers your field on its site before you prepare a proposal.

15. The Federation Press

The Federation Press is an independent Australian publisher based in Sydney, founded in 1987 and focused on law and legal studies. It publishes for students, academics and the profession, and it has a reputation for close working relationships between authors and its in-house editors.

The Federation Press accepts proposals from established and new authors, and its author page explains what to send. Submission guidelines.

16. Emond

Emond is an independent, family-owned Canadian publisher of law and justice books, based in Toronto. It publishes textbooks, casebooks and handbooks for college and university courses as well as practical titles for legal professionals.

Emond accepts proposals by email, sent to its vice president of publishing, and says it aims to reply within about three to four weeks. Submission guidelines.

17. Jones & Bartlett Learning

Jones & Bartlett Learning is an educational publisher of textbooks and courseware for nursing, health, public safety and cybersecurity. It doesn’t run a law list, but its public safety programs make it relevant if your book covers law enforcement, emergency services or the legal side of health care.

Jones & Bartlett welcomes textbook proposals, which you prepare with its manuscript proposal template and email to the editors. Submission guidelines.

18. Captus

Captus Press is a Canadian publisher of textbooks, professional books and scholarly works for post-secondary courses, with titles such as Introduction to Law in Canada. Scholarly books go to its Captus University Publications imprint, which uses external peer review.

Captus accepts proposals through an author and editor questionnaire on its manuscript page, or by email. Submission guidelines.

19. Lawyers & Judges

Lawyers & Judges Publishing, based in Tucson, Arizona, has published since 1963 for attorneys and expert witnesses, with a strong focus on forensic subjects and continuing legal education.

Lawyers & Judges welcomes manuscripts and book ideas. Its submissions page offers a getting-started guide, and you can reach its editorial department by phone or mail. Submission guidelines.

20. Carolina Academic Press

Carolina Academic Press, based in Durham, North Carolina, has a catalog of more than 3,000 titles and is best known for law school coursebooks, including Richard Wydick’s Plain English for Lawyers. It also publishes in other academic fields.

Carolina Academic Press welcomes book proposals in law and other academic areas. Send yours through the online form on its Publish With Us page, or by mail. Submission guidelines.

21. Aspen Publishing

Aspen Publishing produces casebooks, textbooks and digital learning tools for American law schools, plus undergraduate titles for paralegal, legal studies, criminal justice and business law courses.

Aspen accepts proposals from authors: send a proposal and a detailed table of contents, which it typically sends to four to six outside reviewers before offering a contract. Submission guidelines.

22. Duncker & Humblot

Duncker & Humblot is a Berlin academic publisher founded in 1798. It publishes dissertations, monographs, conference volumes and Festschriften in law and political science, economics and the social sciences, history and philosophy, mostly in German.

Duncker & Humblot accepts manuscripts as Word files by email or post. Dissertations are considered only when both examiners graded them at least magna cum laude. Submission guidelines.

23. Wildy & Sons Ltd

Wildy & Sons is a London legal bookseller dating back to 1830, and its publishing imprint, Wildy, Simmonds & Hill, produces practitioner titles on wills and probate, criminal law, property law and legal skills.

There’s no formal proposal form. Wildy welcomes enquiries from prospective authors by email at the address on its About page. Contact details.

Names you may be looking for

Irwin Law

Irwin Law was a Toronto publisher of Canadian legal books, including the Essentials of Canadian Law series. University of Toronto Press acquired its assets in 2024, and the old Irwin Law website now leads to UTP’s publishing site.

Conclusion

Start by matching your book to the kind of publisher. A practitioner guide belongs with Thomson Reuters, Sweet & Maxwell, Wolters Kluwer, the ABA or a specialist such as Lawyers & Judges. A casebook or course text fits West Academic, Aspen, Carolina Academic Press, Emond or Captus. A scholarly monograph is a pitch for Oxford, Cambridge, Hart, Brill, Elgar, Larcier Intersentia or Stanford. Then follow that publisher’s proposal instructions exactly. Next up, you may want to explore a guide on publishing companies in Oregon.