Al-rafidain of Law Journal (ARLJ) has been published on behalf of the College of Law, University of Mosul, since 1996.  We succeeded in re-issuing the journal immediately after the liberation of Mosul City from ISIS in 2017. It is an open-access journal published under the license of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY). ARLJ welcomes high-quality submissions, including articles, essays, case notes, comments, and reviews, which focus on Iraqi, Regional, or international legal developments.

It was published simultaneously with the Iraqi scientific journal website IASJ. It has been classified among several internationally Well-known databases, DOAJ and IASJ. With the Impact factor, all research published in the journal obtains the DOI No

. Al-rafidain of law Journal (ARLJ)  accepts all manuscripts sent by researchers in Arabic, English and French  

Please note: All submissions to the Alrafidain of Law Journal should go through

https://alaw.uomosul.edu.iq/index.php/alaw/index

Open Access Policy

ARLJ is an open-access journal, which means that all articles are available on the internet to all users immediately upon publication, without requiring a subscription to the journal. Thus, all papers published in ARLJ are distributed under the open-access license agreement. Under this license, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their work but allow anyone to download, re-use, re-print, modify, distribute, or copy the content as long as the original authors and source are cited properly.  Competing Interest Declaration All authors must include a competing interest declaration on their title page. This declaration will be subject to editorial review and it will be published in the article. Competing interests are situations that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on the content or publication of an author’s work. They may include but are not limited to, financial, professional, contractual, or personal relationships or situations. If the manuscript has multiple authors, the author submission must include competing interest declarations relevant to all contributing authors. Peer Review Process All contributions are subject to a double-blind peer review process. All received manuscripts will be sent to two referees. Authors will be notified whether their papers are accepted for publication or not. The authors whose contributions are accepted for publication will be sent the referee form which is mentioned if revisions are required or if the paper is accepted as it stands. The authors requested to submit revisions for review and will send the new versions of their articles to the editor. The deadline for submitting the revised papers will be mentioned by the editor in the correspondence with the author(s)). All submitted work must not have been published elsewhere or be currently under review for any other publication   Criteria:

1. Relevance of theme/s

2 .Originality

3.Argumentative structure & clarity

4. Methodological integrity & use of data (if applicable)

5.Use of literature & theory

6. Language – the quality of communication The reviewers will provide a score for each criterion, an overall recommendation, and comments.  Publication fee Al-rafidain of law Journal is not financially supported by any governmental or non-governmental organization. Therefore, publishing an article in the journal requires a payment of  130000 ID ( 100 U$)  as publishing fees.  

Frequency: 4 issues per year