About the Journal
Focus and Scope
The IUS Law Journal (e-ISSN 2831-0039) is a scholarly legal publication of the Faculty of Law at the International University of Sarajevo (IUS). It serves as a platform targeting largely legal scholars, legal practitioners, FLW students (specifically graduate students in the last leg of their studies), and non-lawyers. It is a robustly blind, open-access, peer-review journal published biannually in English, the language of instruction at IUS. The journal is designed to explore issues relating to Bosnian public and private laws along with lessons for other jurisdictions, irrespective of legal tradition (civil or common law) or democratic status (young or established), in a contemporary world marked by the migration of legal ideas and concepts. Submitted manuscripts review scientific papers, book reviews, conference reports and reports from judicial practice.
APC
Publication in this journal does not require an APC.Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Why Publish With Us
Fair selection and publication
Prompt publication
Peer-reviewed
Free of charge
Open access
No fees charged for publication
Indexed in CEEOL, Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources (ROAD), Sherpa Romeo, Google Scholar, Research Gate, Crossref.
Archiving
To create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration, the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina' is used as a legal obligation to archive mandatory copies. Additionally, as the whole journal content is open access it is included in the Internet Archive's' collections as well.
Indexing of IUS Law Journal
Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources (ROAD),
Google Scholar,
Research Gate,
Crossref.
Journal Ethics
We expect our distinguished prospect authors to be respectful and adherent to the widely appreciated broader ethical values of producing writings of academic research papers. This includes, not limited to the originality, referencing, bearing responsibility, disclosing the source of all data and third party materials, disclosing any conflict of interest, maintaining professional communication with the editor-in-chief and executive editor.
IUS Law Journal is committed to ensuring and upholding the integrity of all published articles, whereby such values also rely on editors, reviewers, contributors and authors who are expected to behave ethically. The following ethical guidelines are intended to give a broad overview. In case of need for further inquiry, please contact the Journal Editor, Assist. Prof. Dr. Hana Sarkinovic-Kose or Managing Editor, Assist. Prof. Dr. Harun Halilovic.
IUS Law Journal is committed to:
- maintaining the editorial independence of Journal Editors;
- supporting Journal Editors in ethical and academic matters;
- ensuring critical and objective assessment of all articles by reviewers and referees;
- keeping an accurate and transparent record, including publishing corrections and retractions when necessary.
Ethical Expectations
Authors' responsibilities
• To ensure that their work submitted to the journal is original and authored by them and has not been previously published nor under consideration or accepted for publication elsewhere.
• To ensure that original ideas, data, findings and materials taken from other sources (including their own published writing) are properly documented and cited. Any content reproduced from other sources author should have permission.
• To ensure that their data is their won, true and not manipulated. Thus, authors are responsible to maintain accurate records and to provide access to their data associated with their manuscript.
• To ensure their work does not violate any rights of others, including privacy rights and intellectual property rights. In addition, authors should ensure that any studies involving human or animal subject are in accordance with local lows and requirements.
• To declare any real or apparent conflicting or competing interest at any stage during the publication process that could be considered or viewed as exerting an undue influence on his/her duties.
• To alert IUS LJ in case if a significant error in their publication is identified and correct any errors prior or subsequent to publication of their work.
• To adhere to all research ethics guidelines of their discipline, and to ensure that authorship and/or co-authorship of the paper was accurately represented.
Editors' responsibilities
• To carry out their duties in a fair, objective and consistent manner, without discrimination on grounds of gender, sexual orientation, religious or political beliefs, ethnic or geographical origin of the authors.
• To take care that each article undergoes the proper peer-review process.
• To promote consistent ethical policies of IUS LJ, and to ensure the confidentiality of the reviewing process.
• To uphold integrity in their work as editors of the journal, doing away with any personal interest, so that articles are considered and accepted solely on their academic merit and without commercial influence.
• To work with authors, reviewers, and the Editorial Board members to ensure the implementation of journals’ ethics and publishing policies.
• To adopt and follow reasonable procedures in the event of complaints of an ethical or conflict nature, in accordance with the policies and procedures. To handle process of complaints and giving authors an opportunity to respond any complaints. All complaints should be investigated and the documentation associated with any such complaints should be retained.
Reviewers' responsibilities
• To act objectively, fairly and in a timely manner in reviewing submitted manuscript with the aim of improving its quality such as pointing out relevant published work, which is not cited, etc.
• To alert IUS LJ in case of any competing interest that could affect the impartiality of their reviewing, or any potential conflict of interest that includes any relationship between reviewer and author, or any content that is substantially similar to that under review.
• To conduct themselves fairly and impartially.
• To keep the confidentiality of the review process and to not retain or copy the manuscript.
IUS Law Journal responsibilities
• The journal and shall ensure that good practice is maintained to the standards outlined above.
• To deal with research misconduct allegations appropriately when they occurre. The journal shall undertake reasonable actions to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred.
• To maintain the editorial independence of journal editors.
• To support journal editors in ethical and academic matters.
• To ensure critical and objective assessment of all articles by reviewers and referees.
• To keep an accurate and transparent record, including publishing corrections and retractions when necessary.
Originality and Plagiarism Policy
Authors by submitting their manuscript to IUS Law Journal declare that their work is original and authored by them, their work submitted to IUS Law Journal has not been previously published, original ideas, data, findings and materials taken from other sources (including their own published writing) are properly documented and cited, their work does not violate any rights of others, including privacy rights and intellectual property rights, their data is their won, true and not manipulated.
Plagiarism in whole or in part without proper citation is not tolerated by the Journal. Manuscripts submitted to the journal will be checked for originality using the Turnitin anti-plagiarism software.