ICL Journal

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Submission process

• Submission of your paper via our submission management tool
• Peer review process (you will be guided through every step)
• Decision of acceptance
• If accepted: you have the option to publish it open access
• Publication online and in print

• Manuscripts must be written in clear and concise English
• Before submitting your article please have a look at our Ethical Guidelines and our Copyright Transfer Agreement
• Once your article is accepted you have the option to publish it open access
• Our Repository Policy allows you to distribute 30 PDF copies of your published article to colleagues (the PDF has to include the information that it is an author's copy). Please also feel free to distribute the link to the online abstract
• If you have any general questions please visit our FAQ for authors

• The Journal welcomes the submission of unsolicited manuscripts. Submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis. However, we encourage authors to submit manuscripts as early as possible.
• The Journal's Editorial Board is convinced that the length of a contribution does not necessarily add to its quality. Thus the Journal strongly prefers articles under 80,000 characters in length including footnotes. The Journal will usually not publish articles exceeding 100,000 characters.
• We recommend not to include tables in your submission. If you would like to include a table, please contact the Editorial Board in advance.
• If you are interested in submitting a book review, please contact our Review Editor.
• For further questions please contact the Editorial Board.
• Authors are asked to edit their contributions according to the following formal requirements:

  • Citations should be placed in footnotes and in accordance with the Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities (Oscola Fourth Edition).
  • Headings should be numbered according to the following scheme: 1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1, 2 [...].
  • Quotations should be put in single quotation marks(‘x’), and quotations within quotations should be put in double quotation marks(‘x ”y” x’) in text and footnotes.

We are looking forward to receiving your manuscript!

Hybrid Open Access

In this journal, authors have the option to publish their article under an open access license. Open Access allows you as an author to retain copyright and share your findings with colleagues and interested parties worldwide without any restraints.
Please note that authors from institutions with which we have a transformative agreement can publish open access without paying an article processing charge (APC). More information on the eligible institutions and articles can be found under the "Funding and Support" tab here.

Editors-in-Chief
Christoph Bezemek, University of Graz, Austria
Harald Eberhard, University of Vienna, Austria
Claudia Fuchs, WU - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

Corresponding Editors
Liu Han, Beijing
Antonios Kouroutakis, Madrid
Bertil Emrah Oder, Istanbul
Jaime Olaiz, Mexico City
Yaniv Roznai, Herzliya

Managing Editors
Anja Krasser - University of Graz, Austria
Antonia Gfrerer - University of Graz, Austria
Sarah Werderitsch - University of Vienna, Austria

Board of Advisors
Adeno Addis, Tulane Law School, USA
Bruce Ackerman, Yale Law School, USA
Marco de Benito Llopis-Llombart, IE Law School, Segovia Campus, Spain
Scott Brewer, Harvard Law School, USA
Margit Cohn, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Diane Desierto, University of Notre Dame, USA
Surya Deva, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Tímea Drinóczi, University of Pécs, Hungary
Akiko Ejima, Meiji University Law School, Japan
Jörg Fedtke, University of Passau, Germany
Anna Gamper, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Christoph Grabenwarter, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria; President of the Austrian Constitutional Court
Gregor Heißl, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Michael Holoubek, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria; Member of the Austrian Constitutional Court
Gerhart Holzinger, Former President of the Austrian Constitutional Court, Austria
András Jakab, University of Salzburg, Austria; Judge at the European Court of Human Rights
Claudia Kahr, Member of the Austrian Constitutional Court, Austria
Uwe Kischel, University of Greifswald, Germany
Georg Lienbacher, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria; Member of the Austrian Constitutional Court
Konrad Lachmayer, Sigmund Freud University, Vienna
Martin Loughlin, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Fabrizio Marrella, University 'Ca´ Foscari' of Venice, Italy
Russell A. Miller, Washington and Lee University School of Law, USA
Thomas Müller, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Andreas Müller, University of Basel, Switzerland
Anne Peters, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany
Otto Pfersmann, Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Flavia Piovesan, University of São Paolo, Brasil
August Reinisch, University of Vienna, Austria
Pablo Riberi, Universidad Católica de Córdoba, Argentina
Cheryl Saunders, Melbourne Law School, Australia
Kirsten Schmalenbach, University of Salzburg, Austria
Eva Schulev-Steindl, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
Alexander Somek, University of Vienna, Austria
Attila Vincze, Masaryk University, Czechia
Bernd Wieser, University of Graz, Austria
Guobin Zhu, City University of Hong Kong, School of Law, Hong Kong

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