Open access

The European Journal of Legal Education (EJLE) is a fully open access journal. Every article is freely available to read, download and share as soon as it is published, with no embargo period and no requirement to register or subscribe. EJLE makes no charge to authors or to readers: there are no submission fees, no article-processing or publication charges, and no page charges.

Copyright

Authors retain the copyright in their articles. Publication in EJLE does not require authors to assign or transfer copyright to the journal, to the European Law Faculties Association (ELFA), or to the publisher. Each article remains the copyright of its author or authors, who are named as the rights holders (for example, “Copyright © [year] [author]”).

Licensing

Articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Under this licence, anyone is free to copy and redistribute an article in any medium or format, provided that:

• appropriate credit is given to the author(s) and to EJLE as the original place of publication, with a link to the licence;
• the material is not used for commercial purposes; and
• the article is shared in its original form — no adapted, modified or derivative versions may be distributed.

The full terms of the licence are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

Author rights and self-archiving

Because authors retain copyright, they remain free to use their own work for scholarly and teaching purposes — for example, in their own later research, in a thesis, or in the classroom. Authors may also deposit the published version of record in institutional or subject repositories, and on personal or institutional web pages, immediately on publication and without embargo, provided that publication in EJLE is acknowledged and a link to the article is given.

Author warranties

On submitting to and publishing with EJLE, authors confirm that the work is original and their own; that it has not been published elsewhere and is not under consideration by another journal; that it does not infringe the rights of any third party; and that, where the article reproduces third-party material, the necessary permissions have been obtained. (See the journal’s guidance on using third-party material in the Information for Authors.)

Third-party material

Any third-party material included in an article — for example, figures, images or extended quotations reproduced by permission — remains subject to its own copyright and licence terms, and is not covered by the article’s Creative Commons licence unless expressly stated.

Publisher

EJLE is published by Coventry Open Press on behalf of the European Law Faculties Association (ELFA). ISSN 1684-1360 (print); ISSN 1750-4686 (online).