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Author Guidelines

All articles undergo double-blind reviewing, checking for plagiarism and literary editing procedures.

The article together with the anonymized version (without specifying the name of the author (co-authors), place of work) are uploaded to the journal's website. When registering on the site to send an article, you must indicate the full name of the author (all co-authors).

The article (including metadata and bibliography) must be up to 60 000 characters with spaces.

After preparing a response to the reviewers' comments/recommendations, the author uploads the version of the article, the anonymized version and the table of reviewers' comments/recommendations as new material to the journal's website.

The Editorial Board does not discuss the results of peer review with the authors of articles and third parties.

On average, the timeframe for determining the journal's issue for an author is 18 months from the date the article has been uploaded, which takes into account the results of peer review.

Checking for plagiarism is carried out at the preparation stage of each journal's issue.

A scientific article is removed from the issue if the author does not respond to the letter from the Editorial Board of the journal or the St. Petersburg State University Publishing House based on the results of literary editing, preparation of layout.

Terms of publication

The decision to publish should be made by the editor-in-chief (depending on the length of the editorial portfolio and the timing of the review) and reported, as a rule:

For authors of Issue 1 - no later than November 1

For authors of Issue 2 - no later than February 1

For authors of Issue 3 - no later than May 1

For authors of Issue 4 - no later than August 1

The journal does not accept the following materials:

- scientific articles on the theory and history of law and state (except for articles written using empirical methods of social and humanitarian sciences);
abstracts (abstract reviews);
- reviews of scientific events, including outlining the content of speeches and discussions;
- reviews of scientific publications;
- personalities (commemorative notes, obituaries, etc.).

General Format Requirements

Line spacing – 1.5, font – black, 12pt, all margins 25 mm. Paragraph break – 1.25 mm. Specific text elements may be in italics, bold italics, boldface.

Materials must include the following essential elements drawn up in accordance with the following requirements (see examples of articles: https://lawjournal.spbu.ru/issue/view/921), as well as the Orcid on the section of the information about the authors.

Information about the author (Appendix 1);

Materials for publication in languages based on the Latin alphabet are submitted by foreign authors without translation in any part of them into Russian. Bibliographic sources based on a different type of writing (non-Latin) in the Bibliography of a Russian-language article are presented with a translation into Russian, in References the titles of sources are translated into English, the rest of the bibliographic information is transliterated

Articles to be published in English must be submitted by Russian authors both in Russian and English.

Non-English language bibliographic references in articles in English must be translated into English.

Abstract and keywords

Abstract serves to present the article and must describe its essence, the purpose, and objects of the study, its methods, conclusions or results. Recommended length is between 200 and 250 words. The abstract requirements are obligatory.

For example:

“Legal entity as an artificial creature made by law has no own interests and the only interest that matters in corporate law is the interest of legal entity participants. Since shareholders have heterogeneous interests varying from one group to another and those interests may change in the course of time the author argues that the notion of interests of any legal entity is case-specific and may change dramatically over the lifetime for any given corporation. Moreover, there are no universal interests to be protected by corporate law, instead, courts and law-makers tend to introduce narrowly tailored protective mechanisms which may protect minority shareholders in one instance and negatively affect them in others. The only one reason to employ the term «interests of legal entity» is to highlight whose interests are protected by a given rule of corporate law mechanism and how this rule should be enforced. Finally, in any policy related debates (e.g. to what extent, who and how should be protected by corporate law) we cannot rely on the interests of any specific group of shareholders: since most people of groups of three and more face voting paradox and unable to aggregate their preferences without any dictator (in Arrowian sense of social welfare function), lawmakers tend to make their choices based on Pareto efficiency criteria and constrained by current political environments”.

Up to 10 keywords recommended.

Structure the paper

1. Introduction.
2. Main text. 
3. Conclusion.
4. References.

Abbreviations in the text

Names of institutes, public authorities, international organizations are no abbreviated. All abbreviations must be expanded when first given in the text.

Reference list entries

Bibliographic references are included in the body text in Chicago-Style (Author-Date): http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html

The Bibliography includes only the author's sources. References to sources that are not included in the Bibliography are indicated in footnotes.

The list of all references must be accompanied by their English version and Transliteration. Laws and statutory instruments, court rulings and archive documents are not included into the List of References or translated into English.

Laws and statutory instruments, court rulings citations

References to normative legal acts, court decisions are made page by page.

All normative legal acts and court decisions cited in the text must be referenced to the website of the information and reference system (for Russian acts and decisions - Consultant Plus) or the official publication source (indicating the date of the last revision).

When referring to the text of the relevant normative act, generally accepted abbreviations are allowed. For example, for the above sources - the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation or USSR. In the case of repeated citing or mentioning in the text of specific articles, paragraphs, etc. the relevant normative act does not require repeated references to this act.

Normative legal acts, court decisions are not included in the References.

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