Submission process

All submissions are considered by the Manager in the first instance. Suitable papers are peer-reviewed by a minimum of two experts. Peer-reviewers are selected for their knowledge and expertise and may include, but are not limited to Editorial Advisory Board by The Editor. Submissions are assessed on the latest theories of Law.

Authors are strongly advised to read the instructions below before submitting a manuscript. Submitted manuscripts that do not adhere to  standards may be returned to the author(s).

Manuscript Style

• Manuscripts submitted to the journal should not be under consideration by any other journal. Neither should it have been published in full or partial form in any other journal or full-length conference proceedings. Exceptions to this rule are conference presentations and books of abstracts. The letter accompanying the submission of a manuscript should contain a clear statement to this effect, i.e. the manuscript has not been published and is not under review by any other journals.
• Submissions should be produced using a standard Word processing program.

 

• Titles and section headings should be clear and brief. A manuscript should strictly follow the section structure below:

 

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Main text 
• Conclusions 
• References   

 

Language and Spelling:

Only papers in English are published. Quotations of text fragments in other languages should be translated.

Length:

The length should be 4000-7000 words, including references with an abstract of 200-250 words and up to 6 key words. Manuscripts not observing this length will not be reviewed for publication.

Font:

Times New Roman, 12 point. Use margins of 2.5 cm (1 inch).

Title:

Use bold for your article title, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns and font 16 point.

Abstract:

Indicate the abstract paragraph with a heading or by reducing the font size to 11 point. The abstract should have a background, purpose, method and the results of research. 

Quotations:

Lengthy quotations (over 40 words) should be indented in the text without quotation marks. Short quotations in the text itself should be marked as such with “double quotation marks.”

Text Citations:

All references in the text and notes must be specified by the authors’ last names and date of publication together with page numbers for direct quotations from print sources.

Do not use ibid., op. cit., infra., supra.

References:

References must comly with the following examples;

Books

Pollan, M. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. 2nd Ed. New York: Penguin, 2006.

Manuscripts

Joshua , W.“The Market in Plato’s Republic,” Classical Philology 104 ،2009: 440.

Thesis & Dissertation

Choi, Mihwa. “Contesting Imaginaires in Death Rituals during the Northern Song Dynasty.” Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 2008.

Websites

Lang, Jon, the Protection of Commercial Trade Secrets, 25 European Intellectual property Review No 462 (October 2003), available at http://www.nsi.org/library/espionage/asta/html(last visited on 08/03/ 2011).