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Focus and Scope

Law Review is a scientific journal of law published two times a year (March and November).

The aim of this journal is to provide a venue for academicians, researchers, and practitioners for publishing original research articles or review articles. The scope of the articles published in this journal deal with a broad range of topics, including:

  • Business Law
  • Civil Law
  • Criminal Law
  • International Law
  • Constitutional Law
  • Administrative Law
  • Agrarian Law
  • Medical Law
  • Customary Law
  • Environmental Law

and another section related to contemporary issues in legal scholarship.

Law Review provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. 

 

Peer Review Process

Manuscripts submitted will go through the evaluation process with a system of double-blind peer review by reviewers selected by the Editorial Board with at least one of whom is a member of the Editorial Board. Reviewers are appointed under consideration of expertise and suitability to the subject. Results of the evaluation will be communicated within 1-2 months. On the basis of reviewers’ comments and recommendations, the Editorial Board will decide whether the manuscript is accepted without revision, accepted with revisions required, or rejected. The revised manuscript should be returned to the Editorial Board within a predetermined time.

Publication Frequency

Law Review is published two times a year in March and November. All submitted manuscripts will be blind peer reviewed by two experts related to the content of the manuscript.

Because of the rigorous and lengthy publication process, authors should submit their manuscript two months before the intended publication month. Authors must monitor routinely the processes through their registered accounts.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.  This access is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

 

Author Fees and Publication Charges Policy

This journal does not charge any author processing fees or article submission fees. There are no costs that the author is required to pay.

Competing Interest Policy

A competing interest is anything that interferes with, or could reasonably be perceived as interfering with, the full and objective presentation, peer review, editorial decision-making, or publication of research or non-research articles" (with acknowledgement and thanks to PLoS).

Competing interests can be financial or non-financial, professional, or personal. Competing interests can arise in relationship to an organization or another person.

Declaring all potential competing interests is a requirement and is integral to the transparent reporting of research.

1) Authors must declare all relevant competing interests for consideration during the review process.

2) Editors (professional or academic, paid or unpaid) and reviewers must declare their own competing interests and if necessary recuse themselves from involvement in the assessment of a paper.

3) Anyone who comments on or rates published papers in Law Review must declare their competing interests at the time of posting their comments and/or rating.

Author Self-Archiving Policy

This journal permits and encourages authors to post items submitted to the journal on personal websites and institutional or funder repositories after publication. The final published PDF version should be used and bibliographic details that credit the publication in this journal should be included.

Copyright Policy

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under Atribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

License Policy

The license policy that this journal uses is Atribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

This license permits users to use, reproduce, disseminate or display the article provided that the author is attributed as the original creator and that the reuse is restricted to non-commercial purposes i.e. research or educational use.

Complaints Policy

Complaints should be sent via e-mail to the publishing team of Law Review at lawreviewuph@gmail.com.  In your complaint, please clearly describe the nature, circumstances, and subject of the complaint.  All complaints will be addressed promptly following the best practice in the ethics of scholarly journal publishing.

Journal History

First published in July 2001, the Law Review is a scientific journal of law published three times a year (March, July, November). This journal publishes articles based on research or literature studies.