Submitted work should be original, has not been published elsewhere and corresponding to subject-matter of the Journal of Foreign Legislation and Comparative Law. Materials, submitted concurrently to two or more publications, are not reviewed, and relations with author are terminated.

Number of symbols in article should be not more than 40 thousand, including word-spacing and footnotes. Pages should be numbered. Typeface is Times New Roman. Line spacing is 1,5. Font size for main text is 14, for footnotes - 11. Footnotes should be numbered page-by page, numbering is consecutive.

Abbreviations and reductions should be expanded at their first usage in text, and legal instruments should contain the date of adoption, number and full official name. Source of publication of normative acts should not be specified. Specification of source of citation, factual and numeric data is mandatory.

Work should be submitted as a single file and comply with the following structure.

1. Metadata in Russian:
a) heading of article;
b) data on author (name and surname, current position, academic degree and rank);
c) legal address of organization-current employer of author;
d) e-mail;
e) annotation (author's summary) (200-250 words without regard to articles, prepositions and conjunctions);
f) keywords.
2. Metadata in English.
3. Text of article.
4. Bibliographical list (bibliographical references should comply with GOST (State Standard) 7.0.5-2008).

Articles should be sent to an e-mail of the editorial office: jzsp@izak.ru (own surname and the word "article" to be specified in the subject matter of the letter).

Ethics of publication

Publication ethics

The Editorial Staff, the Editorial Council and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Foreign Legislation and Comparative Law in their activities are guided by the Ethical Guidelines to Publication of Research, designed on the basis of recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics, and demand from each party of publishing process to follow the mentioned Guidelines.

Ethical guidelines in author's activity

Author should guarantee that submitted work has not been published elsewhere and has not been submitted to any other publication.

Author should adhere that submitted work has academic novelty. If author uses any publication in his research, appropriate bibliographical references should be used. Excessive adoption and plagiarism, definitely false statements are not acceptable.

Author should be responsible for the accuracy of information about co-authors, information about persons and funding sources of work, which results are described in article.

Author shall alert the editor promptly in case of discovery of a significant error or inaccuracy in article and cooperate with editors in issuing corrections.

Ethical guidelines in activity of the Editorial Staff, the Editorial Council and the Editor-in-Chief

The Editorial Staff, the Editorial Council and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Foreign Legislation and Comparative Law should take responsibility for publishing authors' materials.

The Editorial Staff, the Editorial Council and the Editor-in-Chief, guided by the policy of the Journal and not allowing plagiarism and violation of author's rights, assess manuscript based on its scholarly importance and the accuracy of data provided regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation, religious belief, nationality, citizenship and political opinions of author.

Final decision on publication of positive reviewed article is adopted by the Editor-in-Chief.

Information, related to submitted manuscript, and unpublished data, specified in manuscript, should remain confidential and should not be used by any party of publishing process for personal advantage or transferred to third persons without written consent of author.

The Editorial Staff, the Editorial Council and the Editor-in-Chief should not overpass claims related to examined manuscript or published materials. In case of conflict situations the Editorial Staff, the Editorial Council and the Editor-in-Chief should take steppes for redress of violated rights of interested persons.

Ethical guidelines in Peer Reviewer's activity

Peer-review process in the Journal of Foreign Legislation and Comparative Law is anonymous and is carried out by experts in subject matter domain of manuscript submitted.

Peer reviewer, in an effort to maximum possible neutrality and avoiding of personal criticism of author, carried out academic review of manuscript provided by author.

Recommendations of peer reviewer are foundation for adoption of decision on suitability of article publication.

Information, related to submitted manuscript, and specified in manuscript unpublished data, should remain confidential and shall not be used by peer reviewer for personal advantage in any circumstances.

Peer reviewer should abandon peer review in case of his vested interest in results of peer review of submitted manuscript or lack, under his opinion, of sufficient competence for its academic examination.

Conflict of interests

Each party of publishing process should avoid occurrence of conflict of interests in any form and at any stage of editing. If conflict of interests occurs, all parties should take steppes for redress of violated rights of interested persons.

Publication process

The order of publication of the articles

Article is subject to compulsory peer-review. Final decision on publication of positive reviewed article is adopted by the Editor-in-Chief.

In case of positive decision on possibility of article publication the Publisher send author an e-mail to specified electronic address. Contracts should be send by simple letter to the postal address of the Publisher: 9а, Kolpachny pereulok, Moscow, Russia, 101000 (to specify - Legal Publishing House "Norma").

Article, approved to publication, is subject to edition and proof corrections. Alterations and reductions of manuscript of editorial character should not be approved by author. If actualization of manuscript or approval of conceptual editing is required author should be obliged to reply to the Editorial Staff in specified term.

Peer-review and publication of articles is free of payments.

Phone number of the editorial office: +7 (499) 724-11-89

Phone number of the Publisher: +7 (495) 621-62-95

Editorial collegium

Khabrieva T. — (editor-in-chief), director of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law of the Council of Europe (Venice Commission), doctor of legal sciences, professor, honored lawyer of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation

Kovler A. — (deputy editor-in-chief), head of the Center of legal issues of integration and international cooperation of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation, professor at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, former judge of the European Court of Human Rights (1999—2012), associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, doctor of legal sciences, honored lawyer of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation

Bilkova V. — lecturer at the Law Faculty of the Charles University in Prague, member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law of the Council of Europe (Venice Commission), doctor of law, doctor of philosophy, associate professor
Czech Republic

Vasilevich Grigoriy Alekseevich — head of the Department of constitutional law of the Belarusian State University, corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, doctor of legal sciences, professor
Belarus

Kapustin A. — first deputy director of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation, president of the Russian Association of International Law, deputy chairman of the International Union of Lawyers, chairman of the International Law Association of Lawyers of Russia, doctor of legal sciences, professor, honored scientist of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation

Avtonomov A. — chief research fellow of the Department of foreign constitutional, administrative, criminal law and international law of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation, member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, doctor of legal sciences, professor
Russian Federation

Di Gregorio A. — full professor of public comparative law at the University of Milan, head of study of master program in political science and government
Italy

Kashkin S. — head of the Department of integration and european law of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University, doctor of legal sciences, professor
Russian Federation

Rogov I. — deputy executive director of the Foundation of the first President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, doctor of legal sciences, professor
Kazakhstan

Tuori K. — professor at the University of Helsinki, member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law of the Council of Europe (Venice Commission), doctor of law
Finland

Hasselbalch O. — professor (em.) at the Aarhus University (the Kingdom of Denmark), reader at the Stockholm University, doctor of law
Denmark

Chirkin V. — chief research fellow of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, doctor of legal sciences, professor, honored lawyer of the Russian Federation, honored scientist of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation

Chirkin S. — head of the Department for scientific support of the activity of the secretariat of the Russian Delegation in the European Commission for Democracy through Law of the Council of Europe (Venice Commission) of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation, professor at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy, candidate of legal sciences
Russian Federation

Chilstein D. — professor, head of the Department of criminal law research of the University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law
France

Chursina Tatyana Igorevna — (executive secretary), head of the Department of joint editorial office of scientific periodical publications of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation

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