Focus and Scope

The Review of Law and Technology is a specialized peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the technological fields of law and legal science. The dominant fields are information and communication technology law, legal informatics and fields of technology law including energy law, law of specific production and others. The journal is primarily designed as a platform for publishing original and high-quality academic contributions from students and recent graduates without geographical limitations. The language of the journal's sections is Czech and Slovak, the language of the not-reviewed Essays section is English.

The journal is since 1st January 2015 enlisted in the List of reviewed non-impact journals published in the Czech Republic and since 24th June 2015 enlisted in the ERIH PLUS database.

The contributions may be submitted until 28th February for the summer issue (published on 30th June) and until 31st August for the winter issue (published on 31st December).

Honorary Chair of the Editorial Board:

prof. JUDr. Radim Polčák, Ph.D.

Members of the Editorial Board:

Peer Review Process

Review of Law and Technology is peer-reviewed academic journal. The submissions are anonymously assessed by at least two independent reviewers and the final decision concerning publication lies with the editorial board. The editorial and publishing process is described in detail in the section About / Other / About This Publishing System

The usual time necessary for one round of review is one month. The editorial team reserves the right to reject the publication of contributions that do not receive positive reviewer from at least two independent reviewers even after third round of reviews with at least two independent reviewers.

Open Access Policy

The journal Review of Law and Technology accepts for publication only and exclusively original, nowhere else published submissions ("Ingelfinger rule"). The journal Review of Law and Technology avows the Open Access policy and counts as so called "golden" journal, which publishes the submissions in the form of "Libre Open Access", i.e. under the international version of the Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution-ShareAlike International license, which full text of licensing conditions is available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode (further only "CC BY-SA 4.0"). (For more information about Creative Commons licenses and the consequences of their use see beneath the section "Practical consequences of the Open Access policy" as well as at: http://creativecommons.org/about).
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-SA 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-SA 4.0, which are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/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 of Review of Law and Technology.

Practical consequences of the Open Access policy

Open Access means free access and its meaning, goal and purpose is productive exchange of opinions and also earlier and more frequent citation of the published article.
Open Access also means openess in the legal sense. Publication of a work under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licenses has the following copyright consequences:
Anyone can use the contribution, i.e. among other things multiply, share, modify and create derivative works (e.g. translate), even for commercial purposes.
Derivative works, however, must be shared under the same license (also here under the conditions of CC BY-SA 4.0). In all cases the authorship must be preserved (the author must be named), the source must be stated (Review of Law and Technology) and a reference to the full text of the public licensing conditions CC BY-SA 4.0 must be given.
The author then may grant to his contribution further non-exclusive licenses (e.g. publish the contribution in a book or a collection), if he states that first publication was in Review of Law and Technology and provides a link to the source.
The contribution may be deposited in the specialized or institutional repositories in a form of so called "publisher's edition".

Principles of Publication Ethics

The aim of these principles is to prevent potential illegal or unethical procedures in each stage of publication process in the Review of Law and Technology.

By submitting a contribution, the author confirms that his/her text is an original piece of work which has not yet been published anywhere. Any plagiarism, submission of identical or already published manuscripts or fraudulent misrepresentation are considered as unacceptable and unethical. Non-original works and works which are plagiarism will not be published.

These principles are based on the following sources of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics):

• COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors
• COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers
• Guide for new researchers

In the event that an issue which is not explicitly regulated by these principles occurs, the abovementioned sources of COPE shall be applied appropriately.

Using an AI genertive tool to create text

Based on COPE's statement on AI-generated content (available here: https://publicationethics.org/cope-position-statements/ai-author), an AI tool cannot be listed as the author of the paper as it does not meet the legal requirements of authorship. If an author uses to a significant degree an AI tool to generate the text of a paper, this must be transparently stated in a footnote at the beginning of the paper. Tools used for language review or simple source searching do not need to be mentioned. In case of missing declaration, the editors of the journal reserve the right to reject the paper in case of reasonable doubt about the author's contribution to the content of the text. The author is responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the text produced by the AI tool.

An author who has used generative AI tools in the writing of a paper, or in the creation of images or graphical elements of a paper, must transparently disclose this fact. This will be done by means of a statement in the introduction of the paper, which will include at least the set of prompts and the designation of the AI tool, including the version used, as a footnote. If possible, the author shall also provide a link to the publicly available record of the prompt and its results. The footnote should be structured as follows:

Prompt text [prompt], Follow-up prompt text [follow-up prompt] ... . In: AI tool name including version [citation date]. Prompt link: link

Example:

Napis mi odborne pojednani o priprave madarskeho gulase, rozsah minimalne 500 slov [prompt] co ma vliv na to, jak je gulas palivy? [follow-up prompt]. In: Perplexity verze PRO [cit. 22. 5. 2025]. Prompt link: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/napis-mi-odborne-pojednani-o-p-odcI72rhT.uT3FhlaSUtRg  

The authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even for those parts that were created by an artificial intelligence tool, and are therefore liable for any violations of publication ethics.

The editors of the Review of Law and Technology reserve the right to reject any submission that they reasonably suspect was created in whole or in part by an AI tool.

At the beginning of each cooperation, the editorial team of Review of Law and Technology shall inform authors, editors as well as reviewers about these principles and their application.The authors, editors and reviewers shall be further notified about the above listed documents of COPE and their applicability.

The authors, editorial board and reviewers are bound by following obligations:

Obligations of author/s

• to guarantee that the submission is his/her original work,
• to comply with the formal requirements laid down in section For Authors / Author Guidelines including section policies and requested citation standard,
• to state all co-authors, who contributed to the submission, and at the same time not to state as a co-author any person that did not contribute to the submission,
• to guarantee that the same submission has not been simultaneously submitted for publication to another journal, conference proceedings, or as a monography,
• to guarantee that a submission has not yet been published anywhere,
• to comply with the citation ethics and to state all sources used in the work including proper references to secondary citations,
• to inform the editorial team about any doubts related to the originality of the work or his/her authorship of the submitted work.
  
  

Obligations of editorial team

• to bear responsibility for the sustained content quality of the journal, its professional focus and the diversity of the published articles,
• to respect the requirement for originality of the submissions,
• to respect and to preserve confidentiality of information related to the editorial team, in particular to preserve the double-blind standard of the peer reviews,
• to prevent possible conflict of interest of authors, editors and reviewers,
• to suggest to the editorial board positions on publication of the submissions pursuant to positions provided by reviewers in case of peer-reviewed sections,
• to ensure that decisions about acceptance of submissions for publication are based solely on its academic quality, regardless if it is submission for the peer-reviewed or non-peer-reviewed section,
• not to accept for publication in Review of Law and Technology a submission, which is suspected of not being original and/or a result of plagiarism.
  
  

Obligations of the reviewer/s

• to act impartially and assess the submission constructively with the use of material and objective arguments and to avoid any personal attacks against the author/s
• to contribute by their review activity to an informed decision of the editorial board and to the improvement of the submission in order to achieve the quality required for publication in Review of Law and Technology,
• to comply by the instructions and guidelines provided by the editorial team,
• to comply with the anonymity of the double-blind peer-review process and to respect its confidential nature,
• to comply with deadlines for review set by the editorial team and confirmed by the reviewer,
• to avoid any known conflict of interest, and where appropriate, to inform the editorial team about a potential conflict of interest,
• to always focus on originality of the submitted work and always draw attention of the editorial team to any suspicion of plagiarism.

More details are available on request from the editorial office at the e-mail address: revue@law.muni.cz.

Sources of Support

The publication of Review of Law and Technology was and is supported through the following projects:

Since 1. 6. 2009
CZ.1.07/2.2.00/07.0471
Dissemination and Innovation of University Education in the Field of Law and Technology

Since 1. 1. 2013
MUNI/A/0864/2012
Law and Technology
 
Since 1. 1. 2014
MUNI/A/0918/2013
Law and Technology II
 
Since 1. 1. 2015
MUNI/A/1320/2014
Law and Technology III

Since 1. 1. 2016
MUNI/A/0974/2015
Law and Technology IV

Since 1. 1. 2017
MUNI/A/1191/2016
Law and Technology V 

Since 1. 1. 2018
MUNI/A/1015/2017
Law and Technology VI

Since 1. 1. 2019
MUNI/A/1006/2018
Law and Technology VII

Since 1. 1. 2020
MUNI/A/0989/2019
Law and Technology VIII

Since 1. 1. 2021
MUNI/A/1292/2020
Law and Technology IX

Since 1. 1. 2022
MUNI/A/1484/2021
Law and Technology X

Since 1. 1. 2023
MUNI/A/1293/2022
Law and Technology XI

Since 1. 1. 2024
MUNI/A/1529/2023
Law and Technology XII

Since 1. 1. 2025
MUNI/A/1739/2024
Law and Technology XIII

Author archiving and journal archiving

Copies of all issues of the journal are physically archived in the library of the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University at Veveří 158/70, 611 80 Brno.

Furthermore, the journal is archived in the libraries for mandatory copies in accordance with Act No. 46/2000 Coll., the Press Act.

Digitally archived issues are freely available through the CEEOL repository (available at: https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=2421).

Last but not least, OJS also provides digital archiving of the journal (available at: https://journals.muni.cz/).

Authors can publish their published papers in institutional/disciplinary repositories or on their own websites. Such author-archived versions of the final .pdf papers must include a citation in accordance with the CC BY-SA 4.0 license terms.

Journal History

Review of Law and Technology, with its first issue published on 1st November 2010, is a peer-reviewed academic journal with focus on technology fields of law and legal science. The dominant areas are ICT law, legal informatics and also special areas of technology law like energy law, law of specific production etc.

The journal is since 1st January 2015 enlisted in the List of reviewed non-impact journals published in the Czech Republic and since 24th June 2015 enlisted in the ERIH PLUS database.

The contributions may be submitted until 28th February for the summer issue (published on 30th June) and until 31th August for the winter issue (published on 31st December).