Law And World

Journal Profile

Law and World (LaW) is an international, peer-reviewed, and refereed scientific journal of the European University Institute of Law. It is a stable academic platform for legal research and is published in both print and electronic formats. The journal is oriented toward publishing scholarly works of high academic value in accordance with international academic standards.

The journal is open to collaboration with scholars from different countries worldwide. Articles are accepted and published only if they comply with the editorial policy, academic standards, and peer-review requirements of Law and World Journal.

Aims and Scope

The aim of the Law and World is to promote the development and dissemination of scholarly knowledge in the field of law. The journal serves to deepen international academic dialogue, the internationalisation of legal research, and to foster comparative analysis of legal experience and practice across different jurisdictions.

The journal publishes research of an international and comparative nature in the fields of international law, human rights, constitutionalism and the rule of law, criminal justice, contemporary challenges in private law, and digital law.

The journal also welcomes research conducted in other fields of law, provided that they are carried out within an international or comparative legal context and engage with topical issues of contemporary international academic discourse.

Works focusing on legal issues within a single jurisdiction will be considered only where they clearly demonstrate the international significance of the research findings, their comparative value, or their potential for applicability and generalisability to other legal systems.

Interdisciplinary Approach

Authors are encouraged to enrich their legal analysis by drawing on knowledge from other disciplines (such as philosophy, economics, politology, public administration, or technology studies), provided that legal analysis remains the central and dominant component of the research.

Copyright

Copyright is protected under the Creative Commons database license CC BY-SA 4.0. Readers are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, research and use the full text of the article without registration and prior permission from the publisher and/or author, within the limits of applicable law.

The author retains copyright for the paper and grants the journal the opportunity for initial publication. The article is also licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This license permits further use with a reference to the author and original publisher.

Authors are allowed to reproduce their papers, but they must credit the journal as the source of the original publication.

Open-access

The LaW fully recognizes the policy of open access, on the grounds that the free access to research will contribute to the society in the issue of knowledge exchange more globally.

The journal offers readers free, rapid and constant access to papers worldwide while allowing authors to broadly disseminate their published articles and include them in internationally recognized scientific databases and digital repositories.

Authors are allowed to deposit all versions of their manuscripts - the submitted version (preprint), the accepted version (postprint), and the published version (version of record) - in institutional, disciplinary, or personal repositories of their choice. No embargo period applies. Authors are strongly encouraged to include a full citation of the original publication and a link to the official journal website when depositing their work.

The journal is a party to the Budapest and Berlin Open Access Declarations.

Article Submission Deadline

Article submissions are accepted on an ongoing basis. If the peer review process is successfully completed, the article will be published in the current issue upon conclusion of the review.

Language

Articles are published in English or in an English–Georgian format (since 2022).

Each article is undergoing a linguistic check.

Publication Fees

Law and World does not charge authors any submission fees, article processing charges (APCs), publication fees, or access fees.

All publication-related costs are fully covered by the European University Institute of Law. These costs include editorial processing, technical and linguistic editing, DOI registration, web hosting, indexing services, archiving and preservation, and other publishing expenses.

As a result, all articles are published under a full open-access model and are permanently available online free of charge to both authors and readers.

Content Preservation

LaW publications are deposited in the following digital archives, ensuring long-term digital preservation guarantee: CLOCKSS, Internet Archive, Portico.