A skill your agent uses 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 /…

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Install Jleo Topic Selection

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jleo-topic-selection -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jleo-topic-selection --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Journal-of-Law-Economics-and-Organization-Skills/skills/jleo-topic-selection .claude/skills/jleo-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
jleo-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
746 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses 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 /…

  • Works in 5 steps: The organization test. Is there a… → The mechanism test. Can you name the… → The dual-tradition test. Does it speak… → …
  • Pitching a topic for a Journal of Law
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, What JLEO actually rewards, Branch by what you have and Checklist, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Jleo Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. 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.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Pitching a topic for a Journal of Law

Example prompts

  • “/jleo-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. The organization test. Is there a genuine organization — a firm boundary, a hierarchy, a governance structure, a committee, a bureaucracy…
  2. The mechanism test. Can you name the institutional mechanism in one sentence (transaction-cost economizing, agency/incentive, credible…
  3. The dual-tradition test. Does it speak to either transaction-cost / theory-of-the-firm economics or positive political economy (the…
  4. The both-methods test. JLEO publishes formal theory and empirics. If the paper is purely descriptive with no model and no credible design…
  5. The "so what for institutions" test. Does the result change how we understand institutional design or governance choice — not just…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Jleo Topic Selection loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 92 tokens; SKILL.md has 746 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~92
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 746 words, ~1,570 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jleo-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jleo-topic-selection
description
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.

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 governance structure, a committee, a bureaucracy, a court — whose form or behavior the paper explains? Pure market-outcome questions belong at JLE. JLEO wants the inside or the design of the institution.
  2. The mechanism test. Can you name the institutional mechanism in one sentence (transaction-cost economizing, agency/incentive, credible commitment, separation of powers, hold-up, residual control)? If the "mechanism" is just "X affects Y," the topic is not yet a JLEO topic.
  3. The dual-tradition test. Does it speak to either transaction-cost / theory-of-the-firm economics or positive political economy (the North–Weingast–Williamson institutional line)? Topics fitting neither tradition are usually sibling fits.
  4. The both-methods test. JLEO publishes formal theory and empirics. If the paper is purely descriptive with no model and no credible design, ask which it will become.
  5. The "so what for institutions" test. Does the result change how we understand institutional design or governance choice — not just estimate a parameter?

Branch by what you have

You are holdingJLEO-fit moveTrap to avoid
A causal effect of a legal/regulatory ruleRecast the payoff as an institutional/governance claim, or send to JLESelling a market effect as if it were organizational
A make-or-buy / contract-form pattern in firm dataFrame as transaction-cost governance choice with selection acknowledgedDescriptive correlation with no governance logic
A formal model of a political institutionTie comparative statics to a real legislature/court/agency; add a test or institutional caseA model with no institutional anchor (reads as pure theory)
An organizational/personnel finding inside firmsPosition in the economics-of-organization line (agency, incentives), not org-behaviorDrifting into Organization Science's behavioral register
A historical-institutions / development resultConnect to credible-commitment / institutions-and-growth PPE canonA history paper with no institutional-economics frame
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Checklist

  • The institutional or organizational object of study is named, not just a market or outcome
  • The mechanism is stated in one sentence in a recognized JLEO tradition (TCE / agency / PPE / theory of the firm)
  • The paper is clearly TCE-/theory-of-the-firm or PPE flavored, not a JLE price-theory or Org-Science behavioral fit
  • You can name the JLEO audience segment that would champion it — and the one that would desk-reject it
  • If empirical, there is a credible design in view; if theoretical, a real institution it speaks to
  • Process facts cited are in resources/official-source-map.md or marked 待核实

Anti-patterns

  • Pitching a pure market-outcome study (antitrust, crime, price effects of a rule) as JLEO when it is a JLE paper
  • A PPE model with no institution it actually describes — comparative statics floating free of any legislature, court, or agency
  • Borrowing Organization Science's behavioral/sociological framing for an economics-of-organization venue
  • "Law and economics" as a label pasted on an applied-micro paper with no governance or institutional mechanism
  • Inventing exemplar JLEO papers, editor names, or fees rather than marking uncertainty

Worked vignette (illustrative)

A team has a clean estimate that a court reform sped up commercial dispute resolution. As a market-outcome paper ("faster courts raise local investment") this is a JLE candidate. The JLEO recast keeps the same data but makes the institutional object the payoff: the reform changed the governance of adjudication (specialized vs. generalist judges), and the paper asks which disputes the specialized structure economizes on — a transaction-cost question about the organization of the courts, not just a growth effect. Same finding, but now the contribution is about institutional design, and the audience that champions it is the JLEO institutional-economics community rather than applied-micro generalists.

Output format

text
【Journal】The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO)
【Skill】jleo-topic-selection
【Verdict】pass / revise / reroute (to JLE / JLS / ALER / Org Science / QJPS)
【Institutional object】the organization/institution the paper explains
【Mechanism (one sentence)】TCE / agency / commitment / separation-of-powers / hold-up / ...
【Tradition】transaction-cost-economics / theory-of-the-firm / positive-political-economy
【Sibling boundary】why JLEO and not the nearest neighbor
【Source status】verified URL / 待核实
【Next skill】jleo-literature-positioning

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Journal-of-Law-Economics-and-Organization-Skills/skills/jleo-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jleo Topic Selection

What does Jleo Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses 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 /…. Jleo Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. 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.

When should I use Jleo Topic Selection?

Jleo Topic Selection fits situations like: pitching a topic for a Journal of Law.

How do I install Jleo Topic Selection in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jleo-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Law-Economics-and-Organization-Skills/skills/jleo-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/jleo-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Jleo Topic Selection in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jleo-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Law-Economics-and-Organization-Skills/skills/jleo-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/jleo-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Jleo Topic Selection in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jleo-topic-selection -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/jleo-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/jleo-topic-selection, .github/skills/jleo-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/jleo-topic-selection in your project.

What does Jleo Topic Selection need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Jleo Topic Selection is instructions for the agent only.

Does Jleo Topic Selection access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Jleo Topic Selection safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Jleo Topic Selection use?

Jleo Topic Selection is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Jleo Topic Selection use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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