Copyrights And Licensing

All content published in the Review of Law and Social Sciences (RLSS) is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0), unless otherwise stated.

Under this licensing arrangement, authors retain copyright in their work and grant the journal and its publisher a non-exclusive right to publish, reproduce, distribute, archive, and make the work publicly available as part of the journal and its associated services, platforms, and indexing systems.

Author Rights

Authors publishing in RLSS retain copyright in their articles and may:

  • share, distribute, and reproduce their published work for non-commercial purposes

  • deposit the published version of the article in institutional repositories, personal websites, and academic networking platforms, subject to appropriate acknowledgment of first publication in RLSS

  • reuse their own work in future scholarly publications, books, teaching materials, and academic presentations, provided that proper citation to the original publication in RLSS is included

Rights of Readers and Third Parties

The CC BY-NC 4.0 license permits readers and third parties to read, download, copy, share, and adapt the published material for non-commercial purposes, provided that:

  • appropriate credit is given to the author(s) and RLSS as the original source of publication

  • a link to the Creative Commons license is provided

  • any changes made to the original work are clearly indicated

  • the use does not involve commercial exploitation of the material without prior permission from the copyright holder(s)

Author Responsibility for Third-Party Material

Authors are responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions to reproduce copyrighted material owned by third parties, including images, tables, figures, lengthy quotations, datasets, or other content not originally created by the author(s). Any such material must be properly acknowledged in the manuscript.

Licensing of Published Content

By submitting and publishing in RLSS, authors confirm that:

  • the submitted work is original and does not infringe the rights of any third party

  • they hold the copyright to the work or have secured all necessary permissions for material included in the manuscript

  • they agree to the publication of the article under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license

The full terms of the license are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/