Austrian Law Journal

Aims & Scope

With the journal “Austrian Law Journal – Open Access Review of Developments in Austrian, European and International Law”, a publication medium has been founded with which a new path of publication culture for legal sciences is being trodden. The ALJ is aimed at legal scholars of all disciplines as well as scientifically interested practitioners and is an open-access journal. The specialist articles can therefore be accessed freely and free of charge and used with reference to the source (e.g. Hiebaum, Technocracy and Post-Technocracy, ALJ 2018, 58–65 ( http://alj.uni-graz.at/index.php/alj/article/view/124 )). Quality assurance should take place from the legal sciences for the legal sciences. Therefore, all scientific main articles undergo a double-blind peer-review process before publication. Neither author nor reviewer know the identity of the other person. The author has the option to exclude a maximum of three reviewers from the review process. Based on the recommendation of the reviewer and the assessment of the editorial board member of the respective subject area, the editors decide on the publication of the article. Since 2017, contributions to the Austrian Law Journal can now be published continuously online. The issues are finalized semi-annually and forwarded to our cooperation partners. For authors, this has the advantage of very rapid publication on the homepage and that the publication is present in all relevant databases, possibly with a time delay. We are firmly convinced that free public access to research is beneficial for global knowledge exchange. Furthermore, the ALJ promotes interdisciplinary exchange with its conferences. These conference contributions are also published on the homepage, but do not undergo the double-blind peer-review process. We thank our reviewers for their voluntary work. They act free of charge and out of responsibility for the promotion and further development of legal sciences.

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