TheOpen Journal of Law & Policy

Open Access & CC BY 4.0

The Open Journal of Law & Policy is a fully open-access publication. All articles, essays, notes, and other scholarly works published in the Journal are made freely available to readers worldwide at no charge, immediately upon publication.

Unless otherwise stated, all content published in the Journal is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This license permits any person to copy, redistribute, adapt, and build upon the work for any purpose — including commercial use — provided that appropriate credit is given to the original authors and the Journal.

Appropriate credit includes citation of the author(s), the article title, the Journal name, the volume and issue number, and a link to the original publication.

What Authors Retain

Authors publishing in OJLP retain copyright in their work. By submitting a manuscript for publication, authors grant the Journal a non-exclusive licence to publish, distribute, and archive the work in all formats and media, including digital repositories and indexing databases.

Authors are free to:

• Post the accepted or published version of their article to their personal website, institutional repository, or a subject repository (such as SSRN) at any time, with a link back to the published version on OJLP.
• Use their work in subsequent publications, including books and edited collections, provided that the original publication in OJLP is acknowledged.
• Present and distribute their work at conferences, lectures, and similar academic events.
• Deposit the work in any open-access repository mandated by their institution or funder.

Authors are asked to notify the editors when posting or republishing a previously published OJLP article so that we can maintain accurate publication records.

Permissions & Fair Use

Authors are responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions for the reproduction of third-party copyrighted material — including tables, figures, photographs, and extended quotations — that falls outside the scope of fair dealing or fair use under applicable copyright law.

Written evidence of permission must be provided to the editors before the article is accepted for publication. The Journal assumes no liability for any infringement of third-party rights arising from content submitted by authors.

Preservation & Repositories

OJLP is committed to the long-term preservation of published scholarship. All articles are archived in standard formats and deposited with relevant legal and academic repositories. Readers and institutions may freely mirror, download, and store published articles for non-commercial archival purposes.

Originality & Integrity

All submitted manuscripts must represent original, previously unpublished work. Submissions that reproduce substantial portions of the author's own previously published work without disclosure (self-plagiarism) will be rejected. The Journal uses plagiarism detection tools as part of its review process.

Where post-publication misconduct — including plagiarism, data fabrication, or undisclosed conflicts of interest — is established, the Journal reserves the right to issue a correction, expression of concern, or retraction in accordance with the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).