This policy states what the International Journal of Integrated Law Review publishes, on what terms, and how the published record is corrected when something turns out to be wrong.

What the journal publishes

Type	Description	Indicative length
Research Article	Original doctrinal, empirical or comparative legal research.	4,000–10,000 words
Review Article	A critical survey of the state of a legal question.	4,000–8,000 words
Case Comment	Analysis of a single judgment and its consequences.	2,000–5,000 words
Legislative Comment	Analysis of an enactment, bill or amendment.	2,000–5,000 words
Essay	Shorter argumentative writing on a legal or policy question.	2,000–5,000 words
Book Review	Review of a recent legal title.	1,000–2,500 words

Word counts are indicative. A well-argued manuscript is not rejected for length alone.

Frequency

Four issues a year: Issue 1 (January–March), Issue 2 (April–June), Issue 3 (July–September), Issue 4 (October–December). Submissions are accepted throughout the year and are scheduled into the next open issue.

Originality and prior publication

A manuscript must be the author's own work, must not have been published before, and must not be under consideration at another journal. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal at a time is a ground for immediate rejection.

A paper previously posted as a preprint, or presented at a conference without formal proceedings publication, may be submitted — declare it in the covering email.

Authorship

Authorship is limited to those who made a substantive contribution to the research and the writing, and who can take public responsibility for the content. A maximum of three co-authors is ordinarily accepted; requests to exceed this must be justified at submission. Everyone listed must have approved the submitted version.

Adding, removing or reordering authors after submission requires the written consent of all authors, sent to the editorial office by the corresponding author.

People who helped but do not meet the authorship test — supervisors who commented on a draft, colleagues who supplied data, funders — belong in an acknowledgement, not the author list.

Declarations required at submission

• Any funding received, with the funder's name.
• Any conflict of interest, financial or personal, that a reader might reasonably think could have affected the work.
• Any use of generative AI tools, with a note of what they were used for. AI systems cannot be listed as authors, because they cannot take responsibility for the work.

Versions and the version of record

The PDF published in an issue is the version of record. Where a paper is later amended, the original remains available and the amendment is recorded against it. The journal does not silently replace files.

Corrections, retractions and expressions of concern

Instrument	When used
Correction	An error that affects the record but not the paper's conclusions — a misstated citation, a wrong section number, a misspelled name.
Retraction	Findings are unreliable through error or misconduct; plagiarism; duplicate publication; or unethical research. A retraction notice states the reason and who requested it. The paper stays online, watermarked as retracted.
Expression of concern	A serious question has been raised that the journal cannot yet resolve.

Retraction notices are free to read and linked from the original paper. The journal follows the principles set out by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Withdrawal by the author

An author may withdraw a manuscript at any point before acceptance by writing to the editorial office. Withdrawal after acceptance is discouraged, and after publication a paper cannot be withdrawn — only corrected or retracted.

Copyright and licensing

Authors retain copyright. Papers are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. See the Open Access Policy.

Archiving

Published content is retained on the journal's platform. Authors are encouraged to deposit the published PDF in their institutional repository, which the CC BY licence expressly permits.

Disclaimer

Views expressed in published papers are the authors' own. Publication does not imply endorsement by the journal, its editorial board or PEARL MEDIA PUBLICATIONS PVT LTD. Nothing published here is legal advice.