About Laws

Aims

Laws (ISSN 2075-471X) is an international, peer-reviewed, quick-refereeing scholarly open access journal (free for readers), which publishes works from extensive fields including legal systems, legal theory, legal institutions, and a broad range of legal subjects. To guarantee a rapid refereeing and editorial process, Laws follows standard publication practices in the natural sciences.

Scope

  • Legal subjects
    • International law
    • Constitutional and administrative law
    • Criminal law
    • Contract law
    • Property law
    • Further disciplines
    • Tort Law
    • Business and Corporate Law
    • National and Global Governance
    • Statutory Interpretation
  • Legal systems
  • Legal theory
    • History of law
    • Philosophy of law
    • Sociology of law
  • Legal institutions
    • Judiciary
    • Legislature
    • Administrative Agencies
    • Other regarding legal institutions

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

Laws is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI enforces a rigorous peer-review process that adopts strict ethical policies and standards to ensure that we contribute high-quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, etc., occasionally arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy.

Book Reviews

Authors and publishers are encouraged to send review copies of their recent related books to Dr. Shu-Kun Lin, MDPI AG, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland. Received books will be listed first as "Books Received", then offered to the scholarly community for preparing reviews.

Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Laws will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License. MDPI will insert following note at the end of the published text:

© 2013 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Reprints

Reprints may be ordered. Please contact publisher@mdpi.com for more information on how to order reprints.

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