Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

The International Conference on Legal Science (ICLS'22) is committed to upholding the integrity of scientific integrity. We strictly follow the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)’s guidelines on how to deal with potential acts of malpractice as well as the guidelines mentioned in the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in SSRN by the Elsevier.

The COPE was established to provide a range of services and products aimed primarily, but not exclusively, at editors and publishers of academic journals and to provide advice and guidance on best practices for dealing with ethical issues in conference  publishing. COPE advises editors and publishers on research and publication misconduct and publication ethics. It is possible to find an example of a recognized publication ethics and malpractice statement in the Code of Conduct of the COPE (click here). A code of conduct and guidelines can be found on the COPE’s website.

All the editors, authors, and reviewers of the ICLS'22 agree upon standards of proper ethical behavior and accept the responsibility for fulfilling the following duties and responsibilities as set by the COPE Code of Conduct for Journal or conference Editors (https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines).

Authors’ responsibilities

Authors warrant that their manuscript is their original work, that it has not been published before and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Parallel submission of the same manuscript to another conference constitutes a misconduct and eliminates the manuscript from consideration by the ICLS'22.

In case a submitted manuscript is a result of a research project, or its previous version has been presented at a conference in the form of an oral presentation (under the same or similar title), detailed information about the project, the conference, etc. shall be provided in a footnote/Acknowledgments. A paper that has already been published in another conference or journal cannot be reprinted in ICLS'22.

It is the responsibility of each author to ensure that manuscripts submitted to ICLS'22 are written with ethical standards in mind. Authors affirm that the manuscript contains no unfounded or unlawful statements and does not violate the rights of third parties. The Publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.

Reporting standards

• A submitted manuscript should contain sufficient detail and references to permit reviewers and, subsequently, readers to verify the claims presented in it. The deliberate presentation of false claims is a violation of ethical standards.
• Authors are exclusively responsible for the contents of their submissions and must make sure that they have permission from all involved parties to make the data public.
• Authors wishing to include figures, tables or other materials that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright holder(s). Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.

Reviewers’ responsibilities

Reviewers are required to provide written, competent and unbiased feedback in a timely manner on the scholarly merits and the scientific value of the manuscript.

The reviewers assess manuscript for the compliance with the profile of the journal, the relevance of the investigated topic and applied methods, the originality and scientific relevance of information presented in the manuscript, the presentation style and scholarly apparatus.

Reviewers should alert the Handling Editor to any well-founded suspicions or the knowledge of possible violations of ethical standards by the authors. Reviewers should recognize relevant published works that have not been cited by the authors and alert the Editor to substantial similarities between a reviewed manuscript and any manuscript published or under consideration for publication elsewhere, in the event they are aware of such. Reviewers should also alert the Editor to a parallel submission of the same manuscript to another journal or event, in the event they are aware of such.

Reviewers must not have conflict of interest with respect to the research, the authors and/or the funding sources for the research. If such conflicts exist, the reviewers must report them to the Editor without delay.

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the Editor without delay.

Reviews must be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. Reviewers must not use unpublished materials disclosed in submitted manuscripts without the express written consent of the authors. The information and ideas presented in submitted manuscripts shall be kept confidential and must not be used for personal gain.

Editors’ responsibilities

The scientific committee (chair and member) is responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the ICLS'22 will be published. The scientific committee is guided by the Editorial Policy and constrained by legal requirements in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism.

The scientific committee reserves the right to decide not to publish submitted manuscripts in case it is found that they do not meet relevant standards concerning the content and formal aspects. The Editorial Staff will inform the authors whether the manuscript is accepted for publication within three weeks from the date of the manuscript submission.

Editors must hold no conflict of interest with regard to the articles they consider for publication. If an Editor feels that there is likely to be a perception of a conflict of interest in relation to their handling of a submission, the selection of reviewers and all decisions on the manuscript shall be made by the editor.

scientific committee shall evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content free from any racial, gender, sexual, religious, ethnic, or political bias.

The chair and the scientific committee Staff must not use unpublished materials disclosed in submitted manuscripts without the express written consent of the authors. The information and ideas presented in submitted manuscripts shall be kept confidential and must not be used for personal gain.

ICLS’22 Conditions

The Author should submit a research paper within the conference topics in accordance with the following requirements:

1. The research paper shall be sent along with the participation form and curriculum vitae bi of the researcher before 1/10/2022. Theme of the paper should be included on the cover page of the research.

2. The heading of the research paper must contain title of the paper, name of the author, specialization, and place of work. These data should not be indicated in a place other than the cover page. Abstract is presented in Arabic and English languages, and should not be longer than (300) words.

3. Submitted research papers should be written in Arabic, English or French languages, and provided abstracts should be written in two of these languages, and one of them is the Arabic language.

4. Research papers are subject to evaluation by the scientific committee of the conference.

5. The research shall be sent printed on a word file by the e-mail specified for the scientific committee of the conference, and should be:

• Research papers that are submitted in Arabic should be in font type is Traditional Arabic, size -14 for body and 12 for footnotes.
• Research papers that are submitted in English or French should be in font type is Times New Roman, size -12 for body, and 10 for footnotes.
• The length of a research paper submitted in Arabic is 25 pages as maximum, and 15 pages for papers submitted in English or French. Footnotes numbering should restart each page of the paper.
• The research paper should be original, new and not previously published or accepted in previous conferences or accepted for publishing in a journal, and it should not be a part of an academic thesis.
• The scientific method in writing should be taken into account, where the research paper should consist of the introduction and research objectives in brief, and must be taken into account and must be written at the beginning of the research.
• All resources referred to in the body of the research paper are indicated in the bibliography at the end of the paper, sequentially by numbers. The bibliography should be in the following format: If the source is an article in a journal, it should be written as follows: the author’s name, title of the paper, year of publication, journal name, volume and page number. If the source is a book, it should be written as follows: the author's name, title of the book, publisher, place, year, page.

6. The researcher whose research is accepted is committed to make the corrections suggested by the reviewers or proposed by the scientific committee. After evaluation and re-examination, the reviewer will approach the researcher through the scientific committee, and inform the researcher, if requested, to do what is required of him according to the report of scientific expertise and submit a copy of the research after corrections on the disk (CD), and resend it to the e-mail: (of the scientific committee).

7. The research paper is sent to two reviewers for evaluation, and if it is not accepted by one of them, it will be sent to a third weighted reviewer.

8. The intellectual property and publication rights are transferred to the conference if the research paper is accepted. It is not allowed to publish the accepted paper in the conference in the form of an article or book.

9. Taking into account the originality of the research, as it has not been previously published on paper or electronically, or submitted to any other local or external authority, or participated in it in any scientific forum.

10. Research paper should contribute to the development of legislative solutions to the subject it deals with, as much as possible.

11. Following the deadlines for submission of abstracts and papers and making the required revisions.

12. The maximum number of authors for submitted papers should be two authors.

NOTE: The First International Conference on Legal Science (ICLS'22) is a member of the Elsevier -SSRN for the Committee on Publication Ethics membership.