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“Union of Legal Scientists” and international scientific journal “Herald of Law” are pleased to invite legal scholars/researchers, non-governmental organizations, counsels, judges, prosecutors and interested representatives of the state institutions to participate in the online discussion “House arrest, as alternative to custodial sentence in juvenile justice”, on  November 12, 2020 at 12 a.m. The discussion will take place on online platform Zoom.

Speakers:

Ketevan Mchedlishvili-Hedrich – (Freiburg, Germany) Doctor of Law, professor, lecturer at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, member of Union of Legal Scientists and member of the editorial board of the journal “Herald of Law”.

Tamar Makharoblidze – PhD student at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, faculty of law.

The meeting is open to members of Union of Legal Scientists, as well as to other scholarly organizations, representative of universities and scholarly circles and practicing lawyers.

Discussion will be held within the scope of pilot project “online scientific discussions”.

We believe that project “online scientific discussions” will contribute in demonstrating important legal researches in the area of law.

Interested persons may contact us through the e-mail: info@lscientists.com and you will receive the link to meeting, which will enable you to attend the discussion.

Recording of the discussion will be available on Youtube, as well as on the web-pages of the Union of Legal Scientists and journal “Herald of Law”.

We are honoured to inform you about congratulations from Prague State University professor Harald Christian Scheu for publishment of our scientific journal “Herald of Law”. Mr. Scheu sent letter to our member of editorial board, Gocha Ochigava, who himself is a graduate of Prague State University.

Vážený kolego,

dear profesor,

I would like to congratulate you and your colleagues to the establishment of a new highly interesting academic journal with international ambitions. I am confident that the new journal will contribute to the internationalization of science at research and to a fruitful exchange with academic institutions in Europe. I wish you and the editors of the journal good luck and I look forward to further cooperation. Best wishes, Harald Scheu

Professor Scheu is also member of our editorial board.

Event introducing the international scholarly journal of Union of Legal Scholars “Herald of Law” took place via Zoom platform on October 21, 2020 at 12 p.m. The event was organized by Union of Legal Scholars.

The first issue of the journal was introduced on the event.

The authors of the articles published in this issue presented their own works.

The event was attended by the representatives of scholarly organizations, universities, distinguished representatives of the scholarly circles, moreover, by the judges of the Supreme Court of Georgia and Constitutional Court of Georgia.

The meeting was held in a friendly and warm atmosphere.

You can find the video recording of the discussion at the following link:

THE COMPETITION PERIOD OF ARTICLES CONTINUES.

Call for papers for the second issue of  scholarly journal “Herald of Law” is now open.

Scientific Journal “Herald of law’’ is announcing call for scientific articles from 10.09.2020 to 15.11.2020.

Scientific Journal  “Herald of law’’ is an online scientific journal of the Union of Law Scientists.

Accepted scientific articles will be published online on official web site of the journal: www.heraldoflaw.com

The journal is granted International Standard Serial Number  ISSN 2667-9434.

The topics of articles

The journal will publish scientific articles on problematic issues of law or public administration. Articles should contain scientific novelty and should also have special scientific value.

Authors

Authors of articles may be Georgian or foreign researchers and PH.D. students.  In exceptional cases, authors also may be other individuals if the article has special scientific role or scientific value.

Language of Articles

Academic articles in Georgian, English, German and Russian languages (together with the abstract in English) may be submitted to be published in the journal.

Copyright

Upon the decision of the editorial board to publish the article, author agrees to transfer all the exclusive rights in his/her article to editorial board.

Upon the decision of the editorial board to publish the article, author agrees to transfer all the exclusive rights in his/her article to editorial board. The transfer of copyright should be confirmed by signing the relevant document before publishing the article and in case of the request of editorial board, by granting a license.

License covers all rights excluding moral rights. Authors have the right to adapt their own work, provided that the journal is indicated as original source.

The articles will be published under creative commons license (CC BY CA).

According to this license, the published work may be used for any purposes, including commercial purposes, provided that the original source is indicated.

This license permits any person to share, distribute, reproduce the journal or its parts, provided that the original source is appropriately indicated (including the address of web-page).

In case of adapting the published work, the person who makes such adaptation is obliged to clearly indicate about the changes.

Any new work  based on work published in this journal, should be licensed under the same terms as the published work.

There is an indication regarding the creative commons license in the journal.

Appling for publishing article 

the author submits the article in electronic form within the deadline determined by the contest and written request to the Chief-editor about the publication of article.  article and statement should be submitted on following e-mail: info@heraldoflaw.com

The author sends article with personal information and contact information that will be saved in the editorial archive.

The articles should be done in accordance with the publication rules for articles.

The editorial office checks the conformity of the submitted article with the rules.

The editorial board will not accept or consider a article which does not match with the  special rules . Also, Editorial board will not accept article if author breaks ethical standards or if there is any type of plagiarism.

before sending it to the reviewers, editor may make recommendations to the author about editing article. In this case, editor can set a special time for author. If the author fully corrects mistakes the article will be accepted for review.

By submitting the article to the journal, the author confirms that he is familiar and agrees with the ethics, concept, contest and rules of publication.

The author gives to Journal special right on article. The author must inform editorial board in case  changing contact information. Otherwise, any message will be sent to the original email address or contact phone and will be deemed to have been delivered.

The editorial staff will contact with the author of the article (in the case of the article presented by several authors, to one of the authors).

Rules for reviewing articles

The article will be send  to two reviewers, selected by the chief editor

Review is done according to the established rules.

The article will be accepted for publications in case both reviews are positive.

Results of the contest

Only 15 scientific articles are published in journal. In the journal will be published articles which will have the highest scores.Unpublished articles will take part in the contest in the next publication of the journal, if authors agree. Authors will not need to submit these articles to the editor for next volume. Also, these articles will not need review and they will save the last scores.

For further information contact: mob.+995 599177573; e-mail: info@heraldoflaw.com

Scientific journal “Herald of Law” is now indexed in the international scientific database – ISI (International Scientific Indexing).

Warm congratulations to the members of the publishing organization “Union of Law Scientists”, editorial board, editors, authors and law society on this international success of the journal.

It is well known fact that ISI is a server which indexes leading international scholarly journals. Later, ISI will also ensure calculating of impact factor of “Herald of Law”.

ISI ensures accessibility of high level open access journals. The server is designed to cover all open access scholarly journals that use the relevant quality control system.

Journal “Herald of Law” keeps working to be indexed in high ranked international scholarly databases and receive impact factor. The key to popularization of the journal, demonstrating important legal researches and making them available to the public and integrating such researches on an international level is joining the international scholarly databases.

Web-page of ISI: https://isindexing.com/isi/journaldetails.php?id=14343

Union of Law Scientists has launched a pilot project “Online scientific Discussions ”, the goal of which is to foster the development of legal science by way of organizing online discussions on published or unpublished academic works (article, PHD thesis, monography, manual).

On Monday, September 28, 12:00, an online discussion “Problematic Aspects of Mens Rea of complicity in accordance with Georgian and American Law” shall be held under the auspices of the Union of Law Scientists. The presentation on “Comparative overview of relevant aspects of Georgian and American Law” shall be followed by a discussion. Those who wish to participate, please contact us on email info@lscientists.com and we shall send you the agenda of the meeting and the link, by which you can join the meeting.

Union of Law Scientists invites authors of legal works to present their publications. After assessing their importance, practical and academic significance, the ULS shall take decision to organize discussion on this issue. We hope that this project shall interest young and experienced scholars of different fields of law.

We believe that this project shall contribute to the public discussion of many academic and practical works. 

Full recordings of the discussions shall be available at the webpage of the Union of Law Scientists as well as Youtube.

The first issue of the International Scientific Journal the Herald of Law has been published.

“Herald of Law” is the publication of non-profit organization – “Union of Law Scientists”.

The journal is published electronically and published on the official website of the journal Heraldoflaw.com

Full texts of publications in the journal are available for anybody.

Publications in the journal are free.

Professor Jemal Gakhokidze, a member of the Union of Law Scientists, was awarded the Guram Nachkebia Award by the decision of the Rector of the Georgian Technical University and was awarded 2000 GEL as a prize. Congratulations to Mr. Jemal with this success.

It is noteworthy that academician Guram Nachkebia was a member of the Union of Law Scientists.

Member of the Union of Law scientists, doctor of law, Gocha Ochigava was elected as member of the Editorial-Scientific Council of the International Scientific Journal “Herald of the International Center for Education and Scientific Information in Germany” (Duesseldorf).

Congratulations to Mr. Gocha with this success.

Mr. Gocha Ochigava is the official representative of the journal´s publishing house in Georgia.