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. Its standing test for every piece it publishes: does this serve the buyer of these services?
Who publishes it
The Journal is published by Bridge Legacy, a jurisdiction-planning practice, and edited by its founder. The reader should know that, and now does. Our answer to the independence question is disclosure rather than performed neutrality: the Journal declares whose side it takes, who funds it, and where its field material comes from, and it binds its publisher to the same doctrine it prints. A declared position that carries its evidence beats a neutral pose that hides its clients.
What it publishes
Doctrine essays that define the discipline. Standing instruments, beginning with the Jurisdiction 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
The discipline of jurisdiction planning currently has practitioners scattered across silos and no body that names, trains, or holds them to a standard. When the discipline has enough practitioners to govern it, the Journal intends to convene them into its association. The order is deliberate: publications first, institution second. An association will be announced from a shelf of work, and dated from this page.
Cite this publication
Journal for Jurisdiction Planning (2026). Founding Statement. jurisdictionplanning.com/founding. Last reviewed 9 July 2026.