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The journal "Law, Probability and Risk" is published by Oxford University Press and aimed at academic lawyers, mathematicians and statisticians. The journal is concerned with issues in law, which have a scientific element, with an emphasis on statistical and probabilistic issues and the assessment of risk. It covers evaluation, interpretation and presentation of evidence, estimation of compensation for serious injuries, the relevance and reliability of genetic tests for insurance purposes with consequent considerations of legal or quasi-legal criteria for allowable discrimination; legal conflicts affecting the efficiency of credit scoring on the basis of the different types of data permitted to be held by credit bureaux in the UK, the US and the rest of Europe; the detection of fraudulent transactions live, using expert systems and statistical analyses; the drafting of legislation which is scientifically sound through the involvement of scientists and statisticians at this stage of legislation, identification problems (such as DNA), sampling issues (drugs, computer pornography, fraud), offender profiling, credit scoring, risk assessment, and the assessment of competing theories of evidence. Content alerting is available and for subscribers full-text PDF versions of articles are accessible from the first issue on. Non-subscribers can view a table of contents and abstracts in HTML format from the first issue on. Details of the editorial board, pricing and ordering information, information for authors and a sample copy are also available from the site. Students should check whether their university/institution is a subscriber