Peer Review Policy

Peer Review Policy

Sui Generis applies a double-blind peer review process to ensure the academic quality, originality, and integrity of published legal scholarship.

All submitted manuscripts first undergo an editorial pre-screening by the Editor-in-Chief / Managing Editor. At this stage, manuscripts are assessed in terms of:

• relevance to the journal’s scope and the field of legal sciences;
• compliance with publication ethics;
• originality and absence of plagiarism;
• proper authorship and conflict of interest disclosure;
• academic structure, citation quality, and formatting requirements.

Manuscripts that fall outside the scope of Sui Generis or fail to meet basic ethical and academic standards may be rejected without external review.

Manuscripts that pass the editorial pre-screening are sent to at least two independent reviewers with expertise in the relevant field of law or interdisciplinary legal research. Additional reviewers may be appointed where necessary.

Publication decisions are made by the Editor-in-Chief / Managing Editor, based on the reviewers’ reports and recommendations. The final decision may be acceptance, revision, resubmission, or rejection.

Simultaneous submission of the same manuscript to another journal is not permitted. Authors are expected to avoid unethical practices, including plagiarism, duplicate publication, improper authorship changes, and undisclosed conflicts of interest.

All manuscripts are handled confidentially and securely throughout the review process.