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As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  • Upon submitting the paper I give my consent to the License Agreement.
  • Submission has not yet been published and is not currently submitted to another journal for assessment (or author has given an explanation in the Comments to the editor).
  • Submission is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF of WordPerfect format.
  • URL links to references are given wherever possible, especially DOI.
  • The text is single-spaced; font size is 11; if necessary, italics instead of underline is used (except URLs); all illustrations, charts and pictures are placed in the text, not in the end of the submission.
  • The text corresponds to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements stated in the Instructions for Authors, see About Journal.

Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

  • The Journal of Jurisprudence and Legal Practice is a scientific juridical journal focused on publication of original scientific texts dealing with law and jurisprudence.
  • Journal publishes original scholarly papers on Czech and European law or general, methodological or legal-theoretical issues. We can publish articles on other national legal systems only if they are relevant for the Czech or European legal discourse or from the perspective of legal theory.
  • Each text must be submitted in Czech, Slovak or English.
  • Each text must contain name of the author, his/her affiliation (profession) and e-mail contact.
  • Texts sent to the reviewed section must always include abstract and keywords in English. In case that the manuscript is written in Czech or Slovak langiuage, it must also contain abstract and keywords in the language of the text.

 

Citation standard
ISO-690

Structure of citations – examples:

Books
FILIP, J., SVATOŇ, J. Státověda. 5. ed. Praha: Wolters Kluwer Czech republic, 2011, 400 p. ISBN 978-807-3576-851.

Contribution in conference proceedings
OVESNÝ, P., NOVÁK, J. Finanční správa – součást realizace finančního práva. In: Dny práva – 2008 – Days of Law. Brno: Masaryk University, 2008, pp. 227–234. ISBN 978-80-210-4733-4.

Article in printed journal
FILIP, J., ŠIMÍČEK, V. K některým otázkám členství v politických stranách po novelizaci. Časopis pro právní vědu a praxi. Brno: Masaryk University, Faculty of Law, 1995, Vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 109–119. ISSN 1210-9126.

Electronic article
GODERIS, B., VERSTEEG, M. The Transnational Origins of Constituions: Evidence From a New Global Data Set On Constitional Rights. CentER Discussion Paper [online]. 2013, no. 010 [cit. 3. 5. 2014]. Avaliable at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2216582

Case law
Judgment of the Supreme Court of 20. 10. 2010, no. 33 Cdo 4272/2009.

Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 6. 10. 2009, Commission of the European Communities vs. Kingdom of Belgium, case C-6/09. In: OJ–C. 2009, p. I-00165.

All sources must be referenced continuously in footnotes. Do not enclose list of sources at the end of the text, but fill it in this forms. Footnote references must be complete in order to be able to identify the relevant source.

Originality of the text
Any texts submitted to the Journal must be original works.  Previous publication of draft of the manuscript in the Working papers edition at the Faculty of Law is acceptable.

Review Process
Journal of Jurisprudence and Legal Practice is a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
Submitted texts are reviewed anonymously by two independent reviewers (double-blind peer review). The final decision about the publication of all papers is in the competence of the Editorial Board. The identity of the author is not disclosed to the members of the Editorial Board before the final decision.
Estimated length of the review process is three months. Further information may be requested from the editors.


Articles

Peer-reviewed
Recommended length is from 25 to 60 pages.
Any article submitted to this section must be an original work, not yet published academic text in the field of law and legal practice. Legal texts – articles, are primarily addressed to the scientific and academic community. Articles must grasp the researched topic completely. We do not recommend article with titles such as „selected issues…“ or „a few remarks about…“; except in cases where the topic relates to an entirely new and not yet published legal area; therefore, a comprehensive approach at such an early stage is not possible. Thus, it is preferable to choose a narrower topic and research it comprehensively. All texts must reflect ongoing discussion on the topic and relevant case law. If it is possible with regards to the content of the article, the topic must be compared with at least some selected EU Member States. The article must contain new ideas, which can be further followed and further developed by other authors. It is advisable to consult in advance the topic and methods of the article with the editor; whether it is a suitable topic with regards to the focus of the journal.

Previous publication in the Working papers series is not a problem. For more information on the Working papers series, see http://workingpapers.law.muni.cz/content/cs/

Reviews and Annotations

Not reviewed
Recommended length is from 3 to 5 pages.
Each review shall contain full biographic citation of the reviewed publication, reviewer’s name and his/her affiliation (profession, contact e-mail). The purpose of the reviews and annotations is to inform readers of the journal about recently published books in the field of law and to evaluate and sum up their content. Reviewed books must not be older than three years (the relevant date is the publication date). Reviews of textbooks, manuals, conference proceedings or manuals for legal practice will not be published.
It is advisable to consult in the advance with the editor the publication you intend to review.

Copyright Notice

The journal accepts for publication only and exclusively original, nowhere else published submissions ("Ingelfinger rule"). Articles are published under the international version of the Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution International license, which full text of licensing conditions is available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode (further only "CC BY 4.0"). (More information about Creative Commons licenses available at http://creativecommons.org/about).
Articles before 2024 are under a CC BY-NC-SA license.

By making and accepting the author´s revisions of the edited submission following the reviews, the author agrees and acknowledges that his/her submission shall be, in case of acceptance for publication, published under the CC BY 4.0 license, i.e. that a proposal of licensing contract in the meaning of § 2373 of the act no. 89/2012 Sb., Civil Code, to the submission towards unspecific number of persons shall be granted, whereas the content of this contract shall be defined by the reference to the publically available licensing conditions CC BY 4.0, which are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.

The author is obliged to provide and acertain for himself the rights to the submission and eventually to the works used within, so that he/she can offer proposal to licensing contract under the above specified licensing conditions. The author is aware of the fact, that he/she is liable for the harm that may arise from a breach of the this obligation, including the costs related to eventual litigation and harm caused by damage to the reputation of the publisher.

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