About the Journal
The theoretical journal The Lawyer Quarterly, International Journal for Legal Research, focuses on legal theory and practice. It publishes articles by Czech and foreign authors that address current issues in national and international law, legal philosophy, legal history, and other law-related disciplines. It also contains discussions, reviews, and news from the scientific community.
TLQ is a peer-reviewed journal and the peer-review process is anonymous. All information on the double-blind peer-review process can be found under the Peer Review section and Instructions for Authors section.
TLQ offers publishing under an open access license. All users have free access to the Journal’s content on our website without any restrictions, and there are no article processing charges or other fees related to publishing in TLQ.
TLQ is registered with Scopus, the European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS), EBSCO, the Italian Classification of Scientific and Class A Journals (Classificazione delle Riviste Scientifiche e di Classe A) administered by the Italian National Agency for Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR), and the Czech National Bibliography of the National Library of the Czech Republic.
TLQ is published in print and electronic form, which are identical. Readers can access all articles on this website free of charge or, if they are interested, order a printed copy for a fee. For more information about the possibility of ordering a printed copy of TLQ, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Publisher and Publication Frequency
The Institute of the State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the oldest research center of a non-university type in the Czech Republic, publishes TLQ four times a year: in January, March, September, and December.
The electronic version (ISSN 1805-840X) and printed version (ISSN 1805-8396) of TLQ are published at the same time.
The Publisher can be contacted at the address:
Institute of State and Law of the CAS
Národní 18
116 00 Praha 1 - Nové Město
Czech Republic
More information about the Publisher can be found on the website of the Institute
Release Calendar 2024
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Vol. 14 No. 1 |
4.3.2024 |
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Vol. 14 No. 2 |
3.6.2024 |
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Vol. 14 No. 3 |
1.9.2024 |
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Vol. 14 No. 4 |
1.12.2024 |
Release Calendar 2025
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Vol. 15 No. 1 |
3.3.2025 |
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Vol. 15 No. 2 |
2.6.2025 |
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Vol. 15 No. 3 |
1.9.2025 |
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Vol. 15 No. 4 |
1.12.2025 |
Journal History
TLQ journal was founded in 2011 to support the publication of legal or law-oriented research results, enable direct communication between lawyers and legal scientists across the boundaries of legal orders and legal cultures, and to facilitate the exchange of ideas and the development of discussion at the international level. The journal’s issue is, from the beginning, the responsibility of the international editorial board, headed by Prof. JUDr. PhDr. Mult Michal Tomášek, DrSc., Professor of the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague and Vice-Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
Open Access Policy
TLQ will provide readers with immediate free access to all published content in Open Access policy and counts as so called "diamond" journal. We believe that immediate open access enables the worldwide exchange of academic results and opinions.
Practical consequences of the Open Access policy
Open Access means free access and its meaning, goal and purpose is productive exchange of opinions and also earlier and more frequent citation of the published article.
Open Access also means openess in the legal sense. Publication of a work under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licenses has the following copyright consequences:
Anyone can use the contribution, i.e. among other things multiply, share, modify and create derivative works (e.g. translate).
Derivative works, however, must be shared for non-commercial purposes under the same license (also here under the conditions of CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). In all cases the authorship must be preserved (the author must be named), the source must be stated and a reference to the full text of the public licensing conditions CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 must be given.
The author then may grant to his contribution further non-exclusive licenses (e.g. publish the contribution in a book or a collection), if he states that first publication was in Journal of Jurisprudence and Legal Practice and provides a link to the source.
The contribution may be deposited in the specialized or institutional repositories in a form of so called "publisher's edition".
Licensing
TLQ accepts for publication only and exclusively original, nowhere else published submissions ("Ingelfinger rule"). Articles are published under the international version of the Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike International license, which full text of licensing conditions is available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode (further only "CC BY-NC-SA 4.0"). (More information about Creative Commons licenses available at http://creativecommons.org/about).
By making and accepting the author´ s revisions of the edited submission following the reviews, the author agrees and acknowledges that his/her submission shall be, in case of acceptance for publication, published under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, i.e. that a proposal of licensing contract in the meaning of § 2373 of the act no. 89/2012 Sb., Civil Code, to the submission towards unspecific number of persons shall be granted, whereas the content of this contract shall be defined by the reference to the publically available licensing conditions CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, which are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.
The author is obliged to provide and acertain for himself the rights to the submission and eventually to the works used within, so that he/she can offer proposal to licensing contract under the above specified licensing conditions. The author is aware of the fact, that he/she is liable for the harm that may arise from a breach of the this obligation, including the costs related to eventual litigation and harm caused by damage to the reputation of the publisher.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.