Studia Prawnicze KUL (the KUL Journal of Legal Studies) (ISSN 1897-7146) is a quarterly issued by the Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. The quarterly serves the publication of studies in the disciplines of legal studies and canon law. They allow the exchange of knowledge and legal experience referring to both new socio-economic phenomena and to a detailed historical and comparative legal analysis of such phenomena, with particular attention to the legal achievements of Western and Eastern Europe’s civilization.
The objective of the journal is to disseminate, on an open-access basis, the results of studies performed by lawyers at a national or international level, including the analyses of socio-economic phenomena related to Eastern European countries including Ukraine.
The texts are published in English, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian.
Studia Prawnicze KUL (the KUL Journal of Legal Studies) is released four times a year (by 31 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December).
The Journal does not charge any fees to the authors for submitting, reviewing and publishing articles.
ISSN: 1897-7146 (Print)
ISSN: 2719-4264 (Online)
DOI: 10.31743
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Topics for upcoming issues / Call for papers 2026
2024-10-29
Subsequent issues of the quarterly, scheduled for publication in 2026, will be dedicated to the following sections of the law:
1/2026 - studies in public law (deadline: Jun 30, 2025; publication: March 2026). We accept articles in Polish, English, Ukrainian and Russian.
2/2026 - studies in private law (deadline: Sep 30, 2025; publication: June 2026). We accept articles in Polish, English, Ukrainian and Russian.
3/2026 - studies in canon law, administration and law (deadline: Dec 31, 2025; publication: September 2026). We accept articles in Polish, English, Ukrainian and Russian.
4/2026 - varia (deadline: Mar 31, 2026; publication: December 2026). We accept articles only in English.
Current scoring of "Studia Prawnicze KUL"
2024-01-08
Dear Authors, Readers and Reviewers,
we would like to inform that according to the announcement of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education of 5 January 2024 Studia Prawnicze KUL received 70 points.
Studia Prawnicze KUL Editorial Board
"Studia Prawnicze KUL" in the Web of Science database!
2023-11-07
Dear Authors, Readers and Reviewers,
we are happy to announce that the journal Studia Prawnicze KUL has been included in the Web of Science database and will be indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index. We would like to thank all the Authors, Reviewers and Contributors for your presence and cooperation!
Studia Prawnicze KUL Editorial Board
- Arianta
- Biblioteka Nauki/Library of Science
- CEON Biblioteka Nauki (CEON)/CEON Repository (CEON - Centre for Open Science)
- Czytelnia Czasopism Prawniczych on-line prowadzona przez Wolters Kluwer SA/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 Journal Master List (Index Copernicus)
- 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 John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
- Scilit
- Sherpa Romeo
- System Informacji Prawnej LEX/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)
The journal co-financed by the Ministry of Education and Science within the programme "Rozwój czasopism naukowych" ("Development of scientific journals"). Contract no. RCN/SN/0317/2021/1 of 7th December 2022. Project duration: 1 December 2022 - 30 November 2024. The amount of co-financing is 75 342,70 PLN.
The aim of the programme is to support the Editorial Board of the journal "Studia Prawnicze KUL" in the implementation of its development strategy, which includes activities raising the level of publishing and editorial practices, increasing the journal's impact on the development of science and maintaining the journal in the international academic circulation.
