This study aims to identify the journalistic roles in publishing legal issues in the Iraqi daily newspapers, in order to give a clear picture of the style and nature of those journalistic roles in which the study papers deal with legal issues in Iraq and the effects it has had on the Iraqi legal reality in the media in general. And the legal press in particular, which pays great attention to it through the journalistic roles that newspapers played in publishing these legal topics. Scientific and practical, using the survey method to obtain results that meet the requirements and objectives of the research, so it is possible to obtain the necessary data and information in the framework of the research. In which the media material for such legal topics was presented Intent, as the research problem started from answering the main question: What is the role of Iraqi newspapers in publishing legal topics which I relied on within the study to publish legal issues.