About the Journal

European and Asian Law Review is the scientific information and education periodical highlighting current issues of legal science and practice of the EAEU (the Eurasian Economic Union), BRICS and SCO (the Shanghai Cooperation Organization) Member States. 

Certificate of mass media registration series PI No. FS 77-72531 dated 20 March 2018. 

ISSN 2782-1668 (print), ISSN 2712-8857 (online).

Founder, publisher and distributor: Ural State Law University (21 Komsomolskaya St., Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk region, Russia 620066. Phone/ Fax: +7 (343) 374-43-63. E-mail: rektorat@usla.ru)

Since the foundation in 2018 and until 2021 the periodical was called Herald of The Euro-Asian Law Congress - Certificate of mass media registration series PI No. FS 77-72531 dated 20 March 2018 (Russian Federation), ISSN 2619-0672 (print), ISSN 2713-2935 (online).

The history of the journal is inseparably linked with the Euro-Asian Law Congress, which has been held annually in Yekaterinburg since 2007. The Euro-Asian Law Congress was established by the Russian Lawyers Association in 2007 as a special discussion platform where representatives of states, business and the public can update current objectives, and solution of these should contribute to the effectiveness of the Euro-Asian cooperation. 

Until 2018 the results of research and project work of experts in various areas of cooperation were published in the form of a compendium of expert groups reports, which was presented for discussion at annual sessions of the Euro-Asian Law Congress.

The mission of the journal is to publish and discuss the results of scientific research on political and legal issues of the development of the Euro-Asian cooperation. 

The journal publishes scientific articles, analytical materials, expert comments and reviews prepared by professional lawyers-scientists and practitioners from Member States of the EAEU, BRICS, SCO, as well as politicians, representatives of state authorities, business and the public. 

For publication in the journal European and Asian Law Review papers (scientific articles, reviews, commentaries and summaries) are accepted, if they comply with the mission and the scope of the journal:

- 5.1.  Law (theory and history legal sciences; public-legal (government-legal) sciences; private law (civil) sciences; criminal law sciences; internationl law sciences);

- 5.5. Political science (history and theory of political science; political institutions, processes, technologies; state administration and sectoral policies; international relations).

The editorial board of the journal does not refuse to publish authors' papers on the grounds of national, racial or gender origin, political beliefs or religion.

Sections of the journal:

- Aricles; 

- Summaries and commentaries; 

- Reviews; 

- materials of the International Seminar of Criminological Research (CrimSem);

- Social and Labour Relations in the Euro-Asian region.

 

Schedule of papers acceptance and release of the journal in 2022

Issue

Deadline for acceptance of papers

Release Date

1

1 April

18 July

2

1 July

30 September

3

1 October

30 November

4

1 November

30 December

 

Publication Ethics

Principles of ethics

The editorial board of the European and Asian Law Review takes into account the experience of reputable international and Russian publishers and relies on international standards of publication ethics, which apply to all participants in the publication process.

Editor-in-Chief , deputy editor-in-chief, executive secretary,  members of the editorial board, editorial council and the publisher of the journal is guided by the international ethical rules of scientific publications following the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics, the Publishing Ethics Resource Kit of Elsevier publishing and recommendations of the Declarations of the Association of Scientific Editors and Publishers (Russia)"Ethical Principles of Scientific Publications".

The editorial board of the European and Asian Law Review adheres to the principle of complete openness: all information about the requirements for scientific publications, the review process, members of the editorial board and the editorial council is publicly available on the journal's website. The full texts of all issues of the journal are available on the journal's website in the Archives section.

The journal European and Asian Law Review publishes original works that have never been published before and do not contain incorrect borrowings. All works submitted to the editorial board are subject to anonymous internal and external review (Peer-Review Policy).

Financial autonomy

The authors do not pay for provision, handling and publication of works. The journal is distributed free of charge. No royalties are paid to the authors of works. Payment for the accelerated publication of works is not provided.

The plagiarism detection

 Editor-in-Chief, deputy editor-in-chief, members of  the editorial board and the editorial council undertake commitments to help the scientific community in all aspects of the implementation of the policy on observance of publiction ethics, especially in cases of suspected doubling paper submission or plagiarism.

Obligations of the Editor-in-Chief / Deputy Editor-in-Chief

The powers of the Editor-in-Chief and the deputy editor-in-chief are identical in volume and content. After receipt of works the editor-in-chief may authorize the deputy editor-in-chief to conduct a preliminary verification of the presented works for compliance with the journal's theme and formal requirements and then make a decision on the results of review or perform these actions on his own.

If the editor-in-chief finds out a conflict of interest in respect to the submitted work, he mus confide to the deputy editor-in-chief to conduct a preliminary review of the work and subsequently make a decision on the results of the review. If the deputy editor-in-chief finds out a conflict of interest in respect to the work that has been assigned to review and make a decision by the editor-in-chief , the deputy editor-in-chief must refrain from carrying out the relevant assignment and notify the editor-in-chief.

The decision to publish the work: The editor-in-chief / deputy editor-in-chief of the European and Asian Law Review is responsible for making a decision on the publication of works submitted to the editorial board of the journal. This decision should always be made taking into account the opinions of independent reviewers, members of the editorial board and the editorial councilb on the basis of checking the relevance of the work, its scientific significance and reliability for researchers and readers. The decision to publish the work should be made in accordance with the established procedure of anonymous review. The editor-in-chief / deputy editor-in-chief is responsible for ensuring and maintaining the anonymity of reviewers.

The editor-in-chief / deputy editor-in-chief of the European and Asian Law Review is guided by the Peer-Review policy and legal grounds such as absence of libel, copyright infringement, plagiarism.

Non-discrimination:  the editor-in-chief / deputy editor-in-chief of the European and Asian Law Review evaluates the submitted papers in accordance with their intellectual content, regardless of the author's race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnic origin, citizenship or political views.

Сonfidentiality: the editor-in-chief / deputy editor-in-chief must not disclose information about the submitted work to anyone else with the exception of the author, reviewers and publisher.

Disclosure of information and conflict of interest: information contained in the submitted work should not be used in any of the editor-in-сhief / deputy editor-in-chief's own works without the written permission of the author. Confidential information or ideas obtained during the review of the work must be kept secret and not used for personal gain.

In case of a conflict of interest arising from competition, cooperation or other relations with any of authors, companies or institutions related to the work, the editor-in-chief / deputy editor-in-chief should refuse to participate in the preliminary review of the work for compliance with the journal's theme, formal requirements and decision-making based on the results of the review.

Editor-in-chief / deputy editor-in-chief shall require all authors to provide information about relevant competing interests and publish corrections if a conflict of interest has been revealed after publication. If it is necessary, more suitable action such as the publication of a retraction or expression of concern can be made.

The examination of ethical complaints: the editor-in-chief / deputy editor-in-chief is obliged to take reasonably prompt action when receiving ethical complaints about a submitted or already published work, having interaction with the editorial board, the publisher (or the scientific and pedagogical staff).

Authors ' obligations

Originality and plagiarism. By submitting a work for publication in the European and Asian Law Review authors guarantee that the work is original, i.e. it has not been previously published in other periodicals in their current or similar form, is not under consideration in the editorial boards of other periodicals, and all possible conflicts of interest related to copyright and the paper publication in question are resolved. If authors used the work and / or words of other authors, this should be marked with the reference or indicated in the text in accordance with the technical requirements.

In support of these assurances, the author (s) prepare a cover letter in English and send it to the editorial board through the author's personal account on the journal's website together with the file of the paper.

The editorial board of the European and Asian Law Review takes seriously all cases of deviation from standards of academic ethics, especially plagiarism and data falsification. 

In case of plagiarism detection the editorial board reserves the right to reject the work and make this fact widely public. It is considered to be invalid: verbatim copying another author's work without acknowledgement, references to source and use quotation marks; incorrect paraphrasing of the author's work which has been modified more than one sentence in one paragraph or section of  the text or sentences were arranged in a different order without reference to the source; usage of elements of another author's work without author's attribution such as a drawing, table or paragraph without acknowledgment, reference to the source or usage of quotation marks; self-plagiarism (if elements of the work were previously published in another article, authors must refer to an earlier work and indicate what is the significant difference between the new work and the previous one, and, at the same time, identify its relationship with the research results and conclusions presented in the previous work).

Plagiarism in all its forms is unethical and unacceptable behavior when publishing. The author's submission of the work that has already been published in another journal is unacceptable, and is considered to b a sign of unethical behavior. The work of other researchers should be properly recognized. Authors should provide links to publications that have influenced the content of the work described.

After accepting the work for publication in the European and Asian Law Review the licensing agreement betweenthe author (s) and editorial board is concluded, in accordance with the agreement the author transfers to the publisher of the journal the exclusive right to the work on the basis of a simple (non-exclusive) license, i.e. the author (authors) may issue a license for usage of  the work by other persons. At the same time, the right to be recognized as the author of the work (the right of authorship) cannot be alienated and transferred under any agreement.

Authorship of the work. Authorship should be limited to individuals who have made significant contributions to the concept, planning, execution, or interpretation of the described research. All persons who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. If a person has participated in any significant part of the project, they should be thanked or be included in the list of co-authors. Formal authorship is not allowed, formal authorship is defined as the attribution to the list of authors the name of someone who did not participate in the preparation of the article. All co-authors must be familiar with the final text of the work and agree to its publication.

Disclosure of information and conflict of interest. All authors must disclose in their work any financial or other significant conflict of interest that could be interpreted as affecting the results of the evaluation of their work. All sources of financial support for the project must be disclosed.

Errors in published works. The authors are responsible for the accuracy of the facts and data presented in the work, proper names, geographical names and other information. If the author finds out a significant error or inaccuracy in his published work, he is obliged to  notify immediately the executive secretary of the journal and cooperate with him in order to publish a corresponding refutation or correction. If the executive secretary gets to know from a third party that the published work contains a significant error, the author must immediately refute or correct the work or provide the executive secretary with proof of the correctness of the published work.

Reviewers' obligations

The main principles that independent reviewers should adhere to are described in the Ethical guidelines for peer reviewers of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

All works submitted to the editorial board are subject to anonymous internal and external  peer-review.

Independent reviewers who are recognized  as specialists on the themes of the reviewed articles receive editorial list of criteria according to which the paper should be assesed: compliance the content of works with the theme stated in the title; the compliance of works with modern achievements of scientific thought; availability of papers to readers for whom it is intented to, from the point of view of language, style, structure of data, clarity of tables, charts; the expediency of publication of the work by taking into account literature previously published on the this issue .

Reviewers are required to assess the work impartially and without fear or favour.

Participation of the editorial board and the editorial council. Reviewing helps the editor-in-chief / deputy editor-in-chief to decide whether it is necessary to publish the work, and the editorial board's communication with the author can also help the author improve the work. If the author does not agree with the results of the  work review, the work can be sent for repeated anonymous peer-review.

Competence. Each reviewer who doubts  his competence to review the research described in the work should notify the editor-in-сhief / deputy editor-in-сhief and exclude himself from the review process.

Сonfidentiality. Each work received for review should be considered by the reviewer as a confidential document. It should not be shown or discussed with other persons except those authorized by the editor-in-chief / deputy editor-in-chief.

Objectivity. Peer-review should be carried out objectively. Personality attacks on the author are unacceptable. The reviewer should express his point of view clearly and reasonably.

Acknowledgement of sources. If authors have not made a reference to any published work, the reviewer should note this fact. Any statement that any data, conclusion or argument has already been reported in the scientific press must be accompanied by the corresponding reference. The reviewer should also draw the editor-in-chief's / deputy editor-in-chief's of the journal attention if there is any significant similarity or partial overlap between the work in question and any other published and known to him work.

Disclosure of information and conflict of interest. Unpublished information disclosed in the submitted work should not be used in any of the reviewer's own work without the written permission of the author. Confidential information or ideas obtained during the review should be kept secret and not used for personal gain. Reviewers are obliged to inform the editorial board about all cases of a conflict of interest in relation to the research, authors or funding organizations. The reviewer must refuse to participate in the review if there is a conflict of interest arising from competition, cooperation or other relations with any of the authors, companies or institutions related to the work.

Retraction

The work may be withdrawn by its author (s) or the editorial board of the European and Asian Law Review.

The work is withdrawn, if:

the editorial board of the journal has evidence of  inaccuracy of published information which arose either as a result of conscious actions (for example, falsification of data) or due to conscientious errors (for example, errors in calculations or experiments);

conclusions contained in the work were previously published in another publication, and there are no proper references, permissions, and justifications for the need for re-publication (i.e., cases of doubling publication);

incorrect borrowings (plagiarism) are revealed in the work;

the work contains unethical research.

If the author (s) refuse to withdraw the work, the editorial board has the right to withdraw it without the consent of the author (s), since the board is responsible for the content of the journal.

Based on the recommendations of the the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the editorial board of the European and Asian Law Review retracts published works in case of violation of editorial ethics.

 

Peer-Review Policy

General rules of reviewing

Works submitted to the editorial board of the journal European and Asian Law Review and corresponded to its theme are subject to mandatory peer-review for the purpose of their expert assessment.

Internal peer-review is carried out by the competent members of the editorial board or the editorial council. External peer-review is carried out by independent experts who have the scientific specialization closest to the topic of the paper, as well as who have publications on the theme of the reviewed work in last three years. The main principles that independent reviewers should adhere to are described in the Ethical guidelines for peer reviewers of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

When reviewing the received work, the principle of double-blind peer-review is applied: the reviewer and the author do not have access to information about each other during the review process.

The full cycle of the work review is two months from the moment of its receipt by the editorial board of the journal. However, due to a large number of works at a certain point a longer review period may be  required.

The editorial board of the journal proceeds from the need to create conditions for the most rapid works publication. Authors can expect to receive a response from the executive secretary of the journal within three weeks after the paper submition.

Stages of peer-review

The procedure for works reviewing consists of the following stages::

Step 1. Paper submission by the author through the personal account on the journal's website.

Before paper submission authors should read the section "About the Journal", as well as the Author Guide. Authors must register on the journal's website. After registration the author should log in to his personal account using his account data and start sending the work.

Stage 2. The first review of the received work by the editor-in-chief / deputy editor-in-chief.

Upon receipt of the work the editor-in-chief / deputy editor-in-chief conducts a preliminary check of the submitted work for compliance with the journal's scope and the formal requirements contained in the Author Guide.

At this stage the work may be rejected without review, if it is concluded that it does not have a sufficiently high scientific level and/or is not relevant to the scope of the journal. In case of rejection without review the work can not be re-sent to the editor.

Stage 3. The work submission for peer-review.

The executive secretary sends works that were not rejected without review to one external reviewer and  to one or two internal reviewers for review. If a conflict of interest is found with any of authors of the work, the executive secretary is obliged to notify the editor-in-chief. In this case, the submission of the work for review is carried out by a member of the editorial board who does not have a potential conflict of interest with any of authors of the work.

The terms of reviewing in each case are determined by the executive secretary of the journal, taking into account the creation of conditions for the most rapid publication of the work.

Stage 4. The work peer-review

The review of the work is carried out by one external reviewer and one or two internal reviewers. The identity of authors and their affiliation to the organization are not disclosed to the reviewers.

During the review process the work is assessed according to the following criteria: compliance the content of works with the theme stated in the title; the compliance of works with modern achievements of scientific thought; availability of papers to readers for whom it is intented to, from the point of view of language, style, structure of data, clarity of tables, charts; the expediency of publication of the work by taking into account literature previously published on the this issue .

The results of the assessment are reflected in the review. The review should also contain answers to the following questions:

  • What are advantages and disadvantages of the work?
  • What corrections and additions should be made by the author?
  • Is the work recommended for publication in the journal, including taking into account the correction of drawbacks identified by the reviewer?

Reviews are certified in accordance with the procedure established in the organization in which the reviewer works. The original reviews are kept in the editorial office of the journal European and Asian Law Review for five years. The editorial board of the journal undertakes to send copies of the reviews to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation upon receipt of the corresponding request.

Stage 5. Making a decision on the results of the work review.

After receiving reviews from all reviewers the editor-in-chief / deputy editor-in-chief makes one of the following decisions:

  • accept the work for publication;
  • accept the work for publication with minor amendments (the paper requires to be edited before it is accepted);
  • accept the work for publication with serious amendments (the journal is interested in the paper publication, but the work is unacceptable in its current form and needs to be revised in order to submit it for publication);
  • it is advisable to reject the work (the work is not suitable for publication unless the authors conduct additional research or collect additional data);
  • reject the work (negative reviews are provided to the authors).

If the reviews contain recommendations for correcting and improving the work, the executive secretary sends the author  texts of reviews with a proposal to take into account comments and suggestions of the reviewers when preparing a new version of the work or to refute (partially or completely) them with a reason. The authors make amendments to the work in accordance with comments and suggestions of the reviewers and re-submit the work within 2-3 weeks. The modified (revised) work by the author is re-sent for review.

A work that is not recommended for publication by reviewers is not accepted for re-consideration. Texts of negative reviews are sent to the author by e-mail.

After the decision of the editor-in-chief / deputy editor-in-chief to accept the work for publication the executive secretary of the journal informs the author about this and specifies terms of the work. publication. The review texts are sent to the author by e-mail.

 

Open Access Policy

The editorial board of the European and Asian Law Review adheres to the principle of open access, as it is understood in the framework of the Budapest Open Access Initiative: all articles are available on the Internet for all users immediately after their publication, non-commercial usage and distribution is allowed provided that the link is attached, all articles and issues are freely available free of charge (readers can read, download, copy, distribute full texts of articles without obtaining prior permission from the publisher or the author).

Publications in the journal European and Asian Law Review are available under the terms of the CC "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives" ("Attribution —Non-commercial Use — Without derivative works") 4.0 license.

After accepting the work for publication in the European and Asian Law Review the licensing agreement betweenthe author (s) and editorial board is concluded, in accordance with the agreement the author transfers to the publisher of the journal the exclusive right to the work on the basis of a simple (non-exclusive) license, i.e. the author (authors) may issue a license for usage of  the work by other persons. At the same time, the right to be recognized as the author of the work (the right of authorship) cannot be alienated and transferred under any agreement.

 

The conditions for the copyright transfer

Authors who publish works in the journal European and Asian Law Review agree to the following terms and conditions:

The authors reserve the copyright and grant the journal the right to publish the work for the first time, simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license, which allows others to use the work with proof of authorship and initial publication in the European and Asian Law Review.

Authors have the right to enter into license agreements with other persons on the terms of a simple (non-exclusive) license to use the work published in the journal European and Asian Law Review (for example, placing it in university databases, publishing it in a book), with reference to its original publication in this journal.

The author guarantees that he is the copyright holder of all materials provided to the editorial board, and the exclusive rights to these materials are not transferred or granted to other persons.

Authors are allowed and are recommended to post their work online before and during the submission process, as this can lead to productive exchanges as earlier and wider citations of published works.

From the moment of the work uploading  and accompanying materials through the section "Material Submission", the author fully and unconditionally accepts (accepts) the public offer to conclude an author's agreement on the work publication. In accordance with this agreement the author provides the publisher (Ural State Law University) on a gratuitous basis the non-exclusive license to usage of the work created by the author.

From the moment of receipt of the work and the accompanying materials Ural State Law University has the right to use the work without restrictions at its discretion and within the entire duration of the exclusive rights, but with the obligatory indication of the name of the author (authors) of the work, including the right to publish the work (in full or abbreviated) in the entire world, translated into other languages, to send to the repository of scientific information, post on the Internet and use other legal means.

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