International peer-reviewed journal Law and the World is an open-access online and print publication for legal research.
Law and the World journal accepts the works of academic representatives of the legal field, researchers, doctoral candidates, and practising lawyers whose research quality meets the journal's requirements.
An author is permitted to submit only one article for a single issue of the journal.
The journal is published by the Law Institute of the European University.
Law and World has been steadily published since 2015.
To submit the article, you must create an account in the journal.
To create an account, click the Register button in the upper right corner of the site and follow the instructions.
The article is submitted to the created account panel in online form.
Once the article is uploaded, the author can track the progress of his/her article and communicate with the editorial board through the journal's online management system.
You do not need to create an account to access Law and World publications.
Only articles of scientific value are published in the journal Law and World. Articles should present the results of original research. It must significantly contribute to the knowledge and understanding of the subject and be supported by appropriate and accurate sources.
Submitted work must be an original publication that has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere, in the same or a different language.
The article can be prepared on any pressing issue of law; we do not have a privileged field in law; all fields are equally important to us. Articles are published on pressing legal matters such as dispute resolution, human rights, taxation, business law issues, competition, intellectual property protection, law firms, outsourcing legal processes, judicial system, lawmaking, world trade, cross-border investment, environmental protection, etc.
The journal gives preference to research conducted in a comparative manner so that it is interesting not only for the national but also for the international scientific community of any country.
The scientific value of the article is checked by two independent experts/reviewers.
The selected reviewers are scientists working in different universities worldwide whose competence and academic works are fully consistent with the article's content.
The editor-in-chief selects a reviewer for each article in close consultation with the editorial board members.
The reviewer prepares a report using the Law and the World journal evaluation form. In the evaluation form, the article's relevance and novelty of the research, the quality of the scientific research, the consistency of the work and the problem analysis, the abstract, the conclusion, the coefficient of finding and using international and local practices, the novelty, quality and diversity of the used literature, the language, style, structure, bibliography/footnote academic requirements, quality of recommendations presented are assessed from 0 to 10 points.
A positive review is in place if the reviewer evaluates the article with at least 70 points. Is it possible for an author whose article did not pass the review to submit the same one a second time?
The author can submit an article on subsequent issues without restriction, corrected according to the reviewer's recommendations. Although this does not guarantee the article's publication, it will first be subject to a mandatory secret review.
Editorial board is not allowed to make any kind of change in the article's content.
Yes. The journal makes linguistic and technical corrections and agrees on the final version with the author before publication.
Any changes after publication are not allowed. Only technical inaccuracies can be corrected based on the author's note.
Articles are accepted on a rolling basis; if the review is successful, the article will be published in the current issue upon completion of the review process.
Compliance with technical parameters is determined within 3-5 days after receiving the article.
The reviewer evaluation process lasts up to 25 days from the submission of the article, however, in exceptional cases, it may be extended for a reasonable period at the reviewer's request.
Within 30 days, however, in exceptional cases, it may be extended.
The average time from submission of the article to final publication is 7-8 weeks.
To find the article similar to your research topic, enter the topic in the search field, and you will find all the articles published in the journal related to the said topic.
Articles are published in English or English-Georgian languages.
Publication in the journal is free of charge. The editorial board fully covers the costs of checking, technical correction, and publication of the article's text.
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