Journal Policy

  • The Journal provides open access to its papers based on the belief that knowledge and information are freely disseminated to the global community.
  • The Journal charges No Article Submission fees or Article Publication fees.
  • The Journal is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, which allows distribution, unrestricted use and reproduction in any medium, share alike, for non-commercial use. It is also to note that all the works utilised or shared must be cited with the original source.
  • International Journal of Law and Social Sciences (IJLS) permits readers to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of its articles, as well as use them for any other lawful purpose in accordance with Fair-use guidelines. The Alliance School of Law, Alliance University, Bengaluru shall be the sole copyright owner of all the published materials.
  • The submitted manuscript must be original and free from plagiarism contents. All the submissions will go through a rigorous similarity finder tool.
  • All authors must declare that they have read and agreed to full contents of the publication and ethical guidelines and take the responsibility of any research misconduct or inappropriate statement of comment in the contents of the submission.
  • All the submissions should be original, neither previously published nor in consideration for any other publication.
  • All submissions would undergo a rigorous research-based scrutiny by academicians or specialists in the related areas and under the supervision of Editor-in-Chief / Editors. It would be a blind, double peer review, based on well-chart-out criteria approved by the Editorial Board of the research Journal.
  • The Editorial Board will follow the peer review policy for sorting, judging and selecting the submissions for publication.
  • The Editorial Board reserves the right to reject any article found unsuitable for publication. An article may also be rejected if the Board deems that it might harm the political or religious sensitivity of interested readers in any manner.
  • The Editorial Board reserves the right to disqualify entries on account of plagiarism. The submissions should not infringe the copyright or any other right of a third party, if so, the Journal disclaims any responsibility for copyright violation or any other liability whatsoever.
  • By submitting their work, the authors grant IJLS an exclusive right to publish and reproduce their work in all media. Such right is to be given with the view of observing the doctrine of fair use under intellectual property rights subject to attribution of the author.
  • Authors shall be responsible for reporting standards, originality of contents and plagiarism, acknowledgment of sources and notification of fundamental errors in published works.
  • The Editorial Board will consider the authorship and designation mentioned in the cover letter during submission as final and correct, unless otherwise intimated by the author/s. It shall be the responsibility of the author to intimate the Editorial Board regarding any change in designation during the period in which the paper is being processed. No changes will be entertained after publication.
  • Timeline for Publication: The Journal takes around 52 weeks from the date of submission till publication.