**2. Publications Statistics**

The summary of the call for papers for this Special Issue on the seven manuscripts submitted: rejected (two; 29%) and published (five; 71%). The published manuscripts come from various continents and countries; the results are summarized in Table 1. The continental breakdown of authors is 61% from North America (USA and Canada), and 39% from Europe (Spain, Greece and Denmark). The average number of authors per manuscript was less than three.

**Citation:** Salmerón-Manzano, Esther. 2021. Laws and Emerging Technologies. *Laws* 10: 46. https:// doi.org/10.3390/laws10020046

Received: 2 June 2021 Accepted: 3 June 2021 Published: 7 June 2021

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**Table 1.** Statistics of authors by country.

## **3. Authors' Affiliation**

The authors come from eight different affiliations. Table 2 summarises the authors and their affiliations.



## **4. Topics**

The research carried out by the authors in this Special Issue is summarized in Table 3 below. This table identifies the broad areas of law and new technologies that they address. They have been grouped into three main lines of research: Legaltech, New Technologies and Privacy Protection, and New Technologies and Recruitment. Table 4 summarizes the keywords used by all the manuscripts in the Special Issue. It can be seen that there is no repetition of keywords, with the exception of law firms and large law firms, and that in general the keywords are mostly combined.


**Table 3.** Topics for Laws and Emerging Technologies.

**Table 4.** Topics for Laws and Emerging Technologies.


**Funding:** This research was not funded.

**Institutional Review Board Statement:** Not applicable. This study not involving humans or animals.

**Informed Consent Statement:** Not applicable.

**Data Availability Statement:** Not applicable.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The author declares no conflict of interest.

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