Law & Social Bounds

About Journal

Law and Social Bonds has been published since 2012, and since December 2015 it has been included in the ministerial list of scientific journals. Since 2024, Law and Social Bonds is a bimonthly journal.

The late Professor Lech Morawski, an outstanding specialist in the theory and philosophy of law and a judge of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal, was the first Editor-in-Chief of Law and Social Bonds. The Program Council of the journal consists of specialists in the legal theory and philosophy as well as of dogmatics of law, associated with Polish and foreign universities and research centers. The Program Council of the journal brings together members from Europe, South America, Asia and Africa.

Subjects of Accepted Texts

Law and Social Bonds aims to be a forum for the exchange of views on the law and its theory, postulates and directions of changes, and the relation between social changes and the legislation in force. The Editorial Team prefers innovative and critical texts. The journal publishes: articles, commentaries on case law and reviews of monographs.

The journal accepts articles on:

- theory, philosophy and sociology of law;

- dogmatics of law: constitutional law, civil law and procedure, cooperative law, commercial law, administrative law and procedure, administrative courts' procedure, criminal law and procedure, public and private international law, European Union law;

- comparative law;

- legal history and political and legal doctrines.

Law and Social Bonds accepts for publication commentaries on recent case law, including judgements of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the Constitutional Tribunal, the Supreme Court and the Supreme Administrative Court.

Publishing Cycle

Law and Social Bonds is a bimonthly journal published in the following cycle: February, April, June, August, October, December.

Only one article by the same author may be published in the same year (this does not apply to co-authored texts).

Open Journal System

The editors of Law and Social Bonds use the Open Journal System (OJS). The entire publishing process is done through OJS.

Languages of Publication

The articles are published in Polish and English.

Open Access Policy

Law and Bonds has an open access policy. Published issues are available online under the Archive tab. Full access, reading, searching, downloading, distribution and lawful reuse in any medium, for non-commercial purposes only, without prior permission of the Publisher or the author is free of charge; provided the original work is properly cited and any changes to the original are clearly indicated.

Magazine Evaluation Indicators

MN: 100 pts

DOI: 10.36128/priw.vi

ISSN: 2299-405X

E-ISSN: 2719-3594

DOI (Digital Object Identifier) numbers are assigned to each journal issue and the articles published therein . Authors are required to use ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID).

Law and Social Bonds received 100 points for publications in academic journals.

Law and Social Bonds is indexed in SCOPUS, European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS) and The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (CEJSH).

prof. dr hab. Cezary Mik, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw - President

prof. Zenon Bańkowski, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

prof. Irakli Burduli, Tbilisi State University, Georgia

prof. dr hab. Zbigniew Cieślak, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw

prof. dr hab. Przemysław Dąbrowski, Pomeranian University in Słupsk

prof. UWM dr hab. Jarosław Dobkowski, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

prof. Germano Andre Doederlein Schwartz, La Salle University, Brasil

abp. prof. KUL dr hab. Andrzej Dzięga, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Cooperative Research Institute in Sopot

prof. dr hab. Antoni Dębiński, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

dr. habil. JUDr. Rastislav Funta, Ph.D., LL.M., Danubius University, Slovak Republic

prof. UP dr hab. Marcin Glicz, Pomeranian University in Słupsk

prof. Hakan Hayden, Lund University, Sweden

prof. Christian Hillgruber, University of Bonn, Germany

prof. dr Bogdan Iancu, Univeristy of Bucharest, Romania

prof. dr hab. Jolanta Jabłońska-Bonca, Kozminski University, Warsaw

prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Jasudowicz, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń

prof. Carlos Kete, Agostinho Neto University, Angola

doc. JUDr. Zdeněk Koudelka, Ph.D., Masaryk University, Czech Republic

prof. UKSW dr hab. Artur Kotowski, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw

prof. dr hab. Jarosław Majewski, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw

prof. dr hab. Marek Michalski, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw

prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Pietrzykowski, University of Warsaw, Cooperative Research Institute in Sopot

prof. Pablo An Ping Chang Ibarra, University of the Americas, Ecuador

prof. UAM dr hab. Justyn Piskorski, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

prof. KUL dr hab. Jadwiga Potrzeszcz, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

prof. dr hab. Zbigniew Rau, University of Lodz

prof. Martin Rhonheimer, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Italy

dr Marcin Romanowski, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw

prof. EWSPA dr hab. Tomasz Szanciło, European University of Law and Administration in Warsaw

prof. dr hab. Dariusz Szpoper, Pomeranian University in Słupsk

prof. Hideki Tarumoto, Hokkaido University, Japan

prof. UKSW dr hab. Krzysztof Warchałowski, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw