Authors are invited to submit original and high-quality scholarly manuscripts to Journal of Law and Public Policy Review (REPORT). Manuscripts should demonstrate a clear contribution to law, public policy, governance, regulation, institutional reform, justice, or related interdisciplinary areas and must comply with the journal's scientific, ethical, editorial, and manuscript preparation requirements.
Manuscripts must present original scholarly work that has not been published previously and is not simultaneously under consideration by another journal.
Submissions should demonstrate a clear contribution within one or more of the journal's principal areas: Constitutional, Administrative and Regulatory Law, Public Policy, Governance and Institutional Reform, Law, Society and Justice, or Emerging Regulation and Public Policy Challenges.
Manuscripts should move beyond purely descriptive discussion and provide analytical, theoretical, doctrinal, comparative, empirical, institutional, regulatory, or policy contributions.
The journal primarily considers:
REPORT applies a double-anonymous peer review process. Manuscripts submitted for review must not contain author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, institutional identifiers, or other information that directly identifies the authors.
Full author names, affiliations, countries, email addresses, and ORCID identifiers should be entered separately in the OJS metadata.
Manuscripts should be submitted in an editable word-processing format and should follow the official journal template where available.
Original research manuscripts should generally include:
The title should be concise, specific, academically informative, and accurately reflect the legal issue, policy problem, regulatory framework, institution, jurisdiction, or governance challenge examined.
Complete author metadata must be entered through OJS, including full name, institutional affiliation, country, email address, and ORCID identifier where available.
The abstract should normally contain approximately 150–250 words and clearly summarize the research problem, objective, methodology or analytical approach, principal findings, and main conclusion or policy implication.
Authors should provide 3–6 keywords representing the principal legal, regulatory, policy, institutional, or governance concepts addressed in the manuscript.
The Introduction should establish the legal, institutional, regulatory, social, or policy context of the study; define the research problem; identify the relevant knowledge gap; state the research question or objective; and clearly explain the scholarly novelty and significance of the manuscript.
Authors should critically engage with relevant national and international literature, rather than presenting previous studies merely as a descriptive list.
Where appropriate, the manuscript should explain the relevant constitutional provisions, legislation, regulations, court decisions, policy frameworks, governance theories, institutional arrangements, or legal principles.
The literature and legal or policy framework should establish the analytical foundation of the study and clarify how the manuscript advances existing knowledge.
The Methods section should clearly explain the research design, analytical approach, sources of evidence, selection criteria, data collection procedures, and analytical techniques used.
Doctrinal legal research should identify the primary and secondary legal materials examined, the method of legal interpretation, and the analytical framework applied.
Empirical or socio-legal research should describe the study population, sampling, data collection, instruments, analytical procedures, and ethical considerations where applicable.
Comparative studies should explain why particular jurisdictions, institutions, policies, or legal systems were selected and specify the criteria used for comparison.
Policy studies should clearly identify the policy framework, indicators, stakeholders, evaluation criteria, data sources, and analytical method.
Findings should be presented clearly and should correspond directly to the research objectives, legal questions, hypotheses, or policy problems identified in the manuscript.
Legal and policy analysis should go beyond merely reproducing legislation, court decisions, regulations, or policy documents. Authors should critically examine their meaning, implementation, effectiveness, consistency, institutional implications, or consequences.
Comparative and empirical findings should be interpreted in relation to relevant literature, legal principles, institutional contexts, and policy debates.
The Discussion should clearly explain the manuscript's theoretical, legal, institutional, regulatory, governance, or policy contribution.
The Conclusion should directly answer the principal research question and summarize the manuscript's key scholarly contribution.
Legal, institutional, regulatory, or policy recommendations should be supported by the evidence and analysis presented in the study.
Authors should avoid recommendations that are overly broad, unsupported, or disconnected from the research findings. Limitations and directions for future research may also be stated.
Authors should provide the following information where applicable:
Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, authenticity, originality, ethical compliance, and interpretation of all content submitted to REPORT.
Tables, figures, diagrams, policy maps, institutional frameworks, and other visual materials should be relevant, clearly numbered, appropriately titled, and referred to in the manuscript text.
Data should be presented accurately and should not be manipulated in a manner that misrepresents the research findings.
Authors should avoid unnecessary duplication of the same information in text, tables, and figures.
References should be relevant, credible, and sufficient to establish the scholarly context and current state of knowledge.
Authors are encouraged to engage with recent peer-reviewed international literature in addition to authoritative national and international legal materials.
Legislation, regulations, court judgments, treaties, government reports, policy documents, and other primary legal sources should be cited accurately and consistently.
Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) should be included where available. Citation manipulation, unnecessary self-citation, and irrelevant citation practices should be avoided.
Reference formatting should follow the style specified in the official journal manuscript template.
All submissions undergo initial editorial screening for relevance, originality, scholarly contribution, analytical quality, ethical compliance, and adherence to submission requirements.
Manuscripts that pass editorial screening may proceed to double-anonymous peer review by at least two independent reviewers.
Authors receiving a revision decision should respond carefully to all reviewer and editor comments and provide a clear point-by-point response explaining the revisions made.
Submission of a revised manuscript does not guarantee acceptance. The final editorial decision remains the responsibility of the journal's editorial team.
Following formal acceptance, manuscripts may undergo copyediting, language editing, metadata verification, reference checking, layout preparation, proofreading, and other production procedures before publication.
Authors may be asked to review publication proofs and confirm the accuracy of author information, affiliations, references, and article metadata.
Published articles are made openly accessible in accordance with the journal's Open Access and licensing policies.
