About the Journal

Studia Prawnicze KUL (the KUL Journal of Legal Studies) is a quarterly which has been issued since 2007. The journal is a continuation of a quarterly entitled Prawo-Administracja-Kościół (Law-Administration-Church) issued since 2000, while the sequence of numbering of individual volumes has been retained.

The quarterly groups academic publication in several sections. 

The Studies and Articles section includes monographic papers and review articles prepared by scholars having at least a doctoral degree. The academic studies are published in Polish, English, Russian, and Ukrainian. The Editorial Board begins with examining review and interdisciplinary articles, avoiding papers characterised by narrow specialisation.

The Materials and Commentaries section presents demonstrative papers, commentaries to court rulings and scientific materials for education and training purposes.

The Source Materials for Legal Studies section groups together texts which have the potential to become a substantial contribution to the development of comparative legal studies, including translations of foreign laws.

The Reviews section includes reviews of academic publications covering legal studies and canon law, published in Polish and in other languages, and articles containing reviews.

The Conference Reports section covers reports from conventions, symposia, conferences, seminars, workshops bringing together scholars specialising in legal studies and canon law.

The Journal is supplemented by the Faculty Chronicle, a bibliography of scientific publications by research staff members, and articles in memory of Faculty employees and friends who passed away.

Members of the Editorial Board and the Scientific Council are invited to publish texts dedicated to their late colleagues in issues of the In Memoriam series. The issues which were released so far include
1/2022 In Memoriam Henryk Misztal
2/2019 In Memoriam Kinga Stasiak
1/2008 In Memoriam Jan Białocerkiewicz

Texts published in issues of In Memoriam are subject to the same qualification rules and review procedure as texts published in other issues of the journal (see: Review Process).

The editors use a plagiarism detection software called iThenticate, which facilitates the inspection of the originality of texts submitted for publication in the Studia Prawnicze KUL (the KUL Journal of Legal Studies): http://www.ithenticate.com/

The journal is indexed in the following databases:

• Arianta
• Biblioteka Nauki (Library of Science)
• CEON Repository (CEON - Centre for Open Science)
• On-line Legal Journal Library run by Wolters Kluwer SA
• Dimensions
• The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Google Scholar
• European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS)
• ICI Journals Master List
• Most Wiedzy (Bridge of Knowledge)
• Polska Bibliografia Prawnicza PAN (Polish Legal Bibliography of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
• Repozytorium Instytucjonalne KUL (Institutional Repository of the Catholic University of Lublin)
• Scilit
• Sherpa Romeo
• LEX Legal Information System
• The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (CEJSH)
• Web of Science Core Collection (Emerging Sources Citation Index)
• Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB)