The gap
Four industries move families across borders: investment migration, offshore planning, international banking, and migration at large. Each publishes, and each publishes from the sell side. The programme sellers are paid by programmes and governments, the banks by products, the law firms by the structures they bill. The family weighing all of it at once, the buyer, has advisors in every silo and a publication in none. The Journal takes that chair. Every piece it publishes has to serve the buyer of these services.
Who publishes it
The Journal is published and edited by practising jurisdiction planners, and funded by that practice rather than by programmes, banks, or law firms. The reader should know that. The Journal is not independent of the trade it covers, and says so: it declares whose side it takes, who funds it, and where its field material comes from, and it holds its editors to the same standard it prints.
What it publishes
The numbered principles that define the discipline. Standing instruments, beginning with the JP Risk Index, published with full methodology. Dossiers, the flagship deep studies of one jurisdiction's grip on its families. Briefings that track chokepoints in motion: a bill filed, a window closing, a rate climbing. Every publication carries a citation line and a review date, because in a field about moving targets an undated page is a dead page.
What it intends to become
Jurisdiction planning today has practitioners scattered across silos and no body that names, trains, or holds them to a standard. The Journal intends to convene one. Publications come first; when there is a shelf of work behind the name and enough practitioners to govern, the association will be announced, and dated from this page.
Cite this publication
Journal for Jurisdiction Planning (2026). Founding Statement. jurisdictionplanning.org/founding. Last reviewed 9 July 2026.