Law And World

General Information

The international scientific referred and peer-reviewed journal “Law and World” (LaW) of the European University Law Institute is a stable online and print platform oriented on legal research, which ensures the publication of works of high scientific value worldwide.

Articles are published on any pressing issue related to the law. We do not have any privileged topic in law, all areas of law are equally important to us. Research can be prepared on such issues as: human rights, legal disputes, judicial system, justice, law firms, arbitration, legal technique, law making, copyrights, protection of environment, etc.

Authors can enrich their legal analysis by drawing on knowledge from other fields (for example, philosophy, economics, political science, public administration, technology studies), but must ensure that the direction of law is central to their analysis.

Publication is open to scholars from all countries who meet the requirements of LaW.

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.

Articles are accepted continuously, in case of successful review, the article will be published in the current issue at the end of the review.

Mission, Goals, Objectives

The mission of LaW is to promote the dissemination of scientific knowledge in the field of law. It is created to serve the legal profession through the publication of original and competitive works.

To achieve this mission, LaW aims to establish an international platform for comparative discussion, through which high-quality legal research papers will be made as accessible as possible to global academic circles and any interested parties.

The journal’s objectives include securing a prestigious place among highly ranked international scientific publications, being indexed in acknowledged international databases, continuously expanding the international audience of readers, authors, and reviewers, and promoting the journal.

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 and World 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.

There are no access limitations imposed. Articles are available in PDF, HTML, and XML formats.

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

Language

Articles are published in English or English-Georgian languages. Each article is undergoing a linguistic check.

Publication Fees

All Article Publication Charges (APCs) are currently being paid for by Law Institute of the European University and no payment will be requested from the author.

This means that the journal covers all publication costs, including editorial processes, web hosting, indexing, marketing, archiving, technical and linguistic correction of the text, DOI registration and ensures that all of the content is fully open access.

Content Preservation

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