OWNERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

1. Journal Ownership

The Law and Economics (LE) journal is owned by the Institute for Law and Economics Studies, an institution committed to supporting the advancement of knowledge, research, and scholarly publications in the fields of law, economics, and interdisciplinary studies.

The Institute serves as the journal's owning institution and provides the organizational foundation necessary to support its publication activities, institutional sustainability, and long-term development.

2. Journal Management

The Law and Economics (LE) journal is managed under the institutional responsibility of the Institute for Law and Economics Studies. The Institute provides administrative and organizational support to facilitate the journal's operations, publication processes, and continuous improvement in accordance with established scholarly publishing standards.

The journal's management structure includes the Editor-in-Chief, editorial board, and other editorial personnel appointed in accordance with the journal's organizational requirements. Their responsibilities include overseeing manuscript evaluation, coordinating the peer-review process, maintaining publication quality, and ensuring that editorial decisions follow the journal's stated policies and ethical standards.

3. Editorial Independence

The Law and Economics (LE) journal is committed to maintaining editorial independence. Editorial decisions are based on the manuscript's scholarly quality, originality, relevance, methodological rigor, contribution to the field, and compliance with publication ethics.

The ownership and management of the journal do not interfere with editorial decisions concerning manuscript acceptance, revision, or rejection. Such decisions remain the responsibility of the authorized editorial team and are made in accordance with the journal's editorial policies and peer-review procedures.

No author, institution, sponsor, or other interested party may improperly influence editorial decisions.

4. Transparency and Accountability

The Institute for Law and Economics Studies and the journal's editorial team are committed to transparency, accountability, and responsible scholarly publishing. The journal strives to ensure that its ownership, management structure, editorial responsibilities, and publication policies are communicated clearly to authors, reviewers, readers, and other stakeholders.

Any changes to the journal's ownership or management structure will be reflected in the journal's official information, as appropriate, to maintain transparency and public accountability.

5. Commitment to Publication Ethics

The Law and Economics (LE) journal is committed to upholding academic integrity, fairness, confidentiality, and ethical conduct throughout the publication process. The journal's management and editorial team are responsible for supporting the implementation of its publication ethics policies, including policies concerning authorship, peer review, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, research misconduct, corrections, and retractions.

Through this governance framework, the Law and Economics (LE) journal seeks to maintain a credible, transparent, and sustainable scholarly publishing platform serving the academic and professional communities in law and economics.

Owner and Managing Institution: Institute for Law and Economics Studies

Journal: Law and Economics (LE)