• Confirm that the manuscript falls within the journal’s legal scope.
• Ensure that the work is original and not under review elsewhere.
• Obtain approval from all listed authors.
• Check legal authorities, quotations, references and factual claims.
• Remove unnecessary identifying information from the review manuscript.
• Prepare required declarations and supporting documents.

• Use clear, formal and academically appropriate language.
• Arrange headings and subheadings in a logical order.
• Define abbreviations and technical legal terms where necessary.
• Number tables and figures consistently.
• Provide titles and source acknowledgements for visual material.
• Maintain consistency in spelling, terminology and citation style.
• Avoid unsupported, promotional or discriminatory statements.

Authors should verify whether cited laws have been amended, repealed or replaced and whether judicial decisions have been overruled, reversed or distinguished.

• Authorship should be limited to genuine scholarly contributors.
• All authors should approve the manuscript before submission.
• The authorship order should be agreed upon by all contributors.
• Guest, honorary and ghost authorship are unacceptable.
• Limited technical or editorial assistance may be acknowledged separately.
• Authorship changes require explanation and agreement from all concerned authors.

Submitted manuscripts must be original and should not contain plagiarism, inappropriate paraphrasing, unacknowledged translation or excessive reuse of previously published material.

All quotations, legal arguments, ideas, data, tables, figures and other third-party material must be acknowledged properly. Manuscripts may be examined for textual similarity during editorial processing.

The same manuscript must not be submitted to another journal while it is under consideration by JALS.

Authors should disclose related thesis chapters, conference papers, working papers, reports, preprints or earlier publications where substantial overlap exists.

• Obtain ethical or institutional approval where applicable.
• Obtain informed consent for interviews, surveys or identifiable participation.
• Protect personal, client, witness and organizational information.
• Avoid disclosing privileged or sealed legal records without authorization.
• Apply additional safeguards when research involves vulnerable participants.
• Describe relevant ethical procedures within the manuscript.

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce protected tables, figures, photographs, substantial quotations, archival materials or other third-party content where required.

The source and rights status of reproduced material should be stated clearly in the manuscript.

• Disclose financial support, grants or institutional sponsorship.
• State the role of the funding organization where relevant.
• Declare professional, academic, personal or financial conflicts.
• Provide a clear statement where no conflict exists.
• Do not allow sponsors to control findings or suppress relevant results.

• Artificial intelligence systems cannot be listed as authors.
• Human authors remain responsible for every part of the manuscript.
• AI must not be used to fabricate cases, statutes, quotations or references.
• All AI-assisted factual and legal claims must be verified independently.
• Confidential legal information must not be uploaded to unauthorized systems.
• Substantial AI assistance should be disclosed where required.

Submitted manuscripts undergo initial editorial screening for scope, originality, academic quality, structure, legal accuracy and ethical compliance.

Suitable manuscripts may be sent for double-blind peer review. Authors should therefore remove names, affiliations and other direct identifiers from the review manuscript where required.

• Respond to every reviewer and editorial comment.
• Prepare a clear point-by-point response document.
• Identify where changes were made in the manuscript.
• Correct inaccurate legal citations and unsupported claims.
• Explain academically where a suggestion has not been followed.
• Check consistency across all revised files.
• Submit revisions within the communicated period.

• The manuscript falls within the scope of JALS.
• The submission is original and not under consideration elsewhere.
• All authors approved the manuscript and authorship order.
• The review manuscript has been anonymized where required.
• Statutes, judgments, quotations and references have been verified.
• Permissions and ethical approvals have been obtained where applicable.
• Funding, conflicts of interest and AI use have been disclosed.
• Tables, figures and supporting documents are complete.
• The manuscript has been checked for language and formatting consistency.