The Journal Právnické listy has been published since 2017.
The journal Právnické listy of the Faculty of Law of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, which publishes articles on legal subjects and related scientific fields, is published in cooperation with the Wolters Kluwer ČR publishing house twice a year, always in June and December. The journal is published in paper and electronic form. The printed version can be ordered from Wolters Kluwer ČR. The electronic version is available here and in the ASPI system.
Editorial Board of the Journal Právnické listy
Chairman:
JUDr. et PhDr. Stanislav Balík, Ph.D.
Vice-chairman:
doc. JUDr. František Cvrček, CSc.
doc. JUDr. Jan Pauly, CSc.
Internal Members:
prof. JUDr. et PhDr. Karolina Adamová, CSc., DSc.,
doc. JUDr. Tomáš Dvořák, Ph.D.
doc. JUDr. Monika Forejtová, Ph.D.
JUDr. Petra Hrubá Smržová, Ph.D.
doc. JUDr. Vilém Knoll, Ph.D.
prof. JUDr. Martin Kopecký, CSc.
JUDr. Tomáš Louda, CSc.
prof. JUDr. Jan Musil, CSc.
doc. JUDr. Jarmila Pavlátová, CSc.
prof. JUDr. Václav Pavlíček, CSc., dr. h. c.
doc. JUDr. Jindřich Psutka, Ph.D.
prof. JUDr. Přemysl Raban, CSc.
doc. PhDr. Lukáš Valeš, Ph.D.
External Members:
External Members:
prof. JUDr. Vladimír Babčák, CSc. (Faculty of Law Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia)
JUDr. Eduard Barány, DrSc. (Institute of State and Law of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia)
prof. JUDr. Miroslav Bělina, CSc.
prof. JUDr. Jan Dvořák, CSc. (Faculty of Law of Charles University, Prague)
Dr. Karim Eshragh (Public International Law Expert, The Hague, The Netherlands)
doc. PhDr. Vlastimil Fiala, CSc. (Faculty of Law of Palacký University Olomouc)
prof. JUDr. et PhDr. Tomáš Gábriš, PhD. mult., LL.M., MA (Faculty of Law of University of Trnava, Slovakia)
prof. JUDr. Tomáš Gřivna, Ph.D. (Faculty of Law of Charles University, Prague)
JUDr. Ondrej Hamuľák, Ph.D. (Faculty of Law of Palacký University Olomouc)
prof. Dr. Ivan Halász, Ph.D. (Faculty of Public Governance and International Studies, Ludovika University of Public Administration, Budapest, Hungary)
prof. JUDr. Helena Hofmannová, Ph.D. (Faculty of Law of Charles University, Prague)
prof. JUDr. Mahulena Hofmannová, CSc. (Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
prof. JUDr. Ján Husár, CSc. (Faculty of Law Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia)
Mgr. Jakub Charvát, Ph.D. (Metropolitan University Prague)
doc. JUDr. Jiří Jirásek, CSc. (Faculty of Law of Palacký University Olomouc)
prof. JUDr. Marie Karfíková, CSc.
dr hab. Marian Małecki, prof. UJ (Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland)
Dr. h. c. mult. prof. JUDr. Mojmír Mamojka, CSc. (Faculty of Law of Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia)
Dr. Damian Mather (School of Law, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom)
prof. dr hab. Jerzy Menkes (Warsaw School of Economics, Poland)
prof. JUDr. et PhDr. Lucia Mokrá, PhD. (Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia)
prof. Paul Okojie, dr. h. c. (School of Law, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom)
prof. JUDr. Mgr. Andrea Olšovská, Ph.D. (Faculty of Law of University of Trnava, Slovakia)
prof. Elena D´Orlando (Dipartimento di scienze giuridiche, Universita Degli di Udine, Italy)
doc. JUDr. Vladimír Pítra
doc. JUDr. Lenka Pítrová, CSc. (Faculty of Law of Charles University, Prague)
doc. JUDr. et PhDr. Adriana Pollák, PhD. (Faculty of Law of University of Trnava, Slovakia)
Dr. Fabio Ratto Trabucco (Istituzioni di Diritto pubblico, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy)
prof. Dr. iur. Gerald G. Sander (Fakultät I – Management und Recht, Hochschule für öffentlicher Verwaltung und Finanzen Ludwigsburg, Germany)
Dr. Lucca Savino (Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Università di Trieste, Italy)
prof. JUDr. Vladimír Sládeček, DrSc. (Faculty of Law of Palacký University Olomouc)
doc. JUDr. Václav Stehlík, Ph.D., LL.M. (Faculty of Law of Palacký University Olomouc)
prof. PhDr. Jiří Straus, DrSc. (University of Finance and Administration, Prague)
doc. et doc. JUDr. Naděžda Šišková, Ph.D. (Faculty of Law of Palacký University Olomouc)
doc. JUDr. Mgr. Martin Škop, Ph.D. (Faculty of Law of Masaryk University, Brno)
prof. JUDr. Ladislav Vojáček, CSc. (Faculty of Law of Masaryk University, Brno)
dr hab. Andrzej Wrzyszcz, prof. UMCS (Faculty of Law and Administration of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland)
Executive Editor:
JUDr. Peter Brezina, Ph.D.
Editor-in-Chief:
Mgr. PhDr. Marie Novotná
Rules of Procedure of the Editorial Board of the Journal Právnické listy
Art. 1
The Editorial Board of the Journal Právnické listy (hereinafter referred to as the “Editorial Board”) is the highest management body of the journal, which decides on all conceptual and other issues submitted to it for discussion by the members of the Board, in particular
a) approves its rules of procedure,
b) approves the rules for publication in the journal (instructions for authors),
c) approves the principles for opposing texts offered to the journal’s editors for publication,
d) approves the code of ethics,
e) decides on the conceptual focus of the journal,
f) adopts recommendations related to issues related to the content focus and editing of the journal,
g) expresses its opinion on ethical issues related to texts intended for publication or already published in the journal,
h) expresses its opinion on issues submitted for discussion by members of the Editorial Board.
Art. 2
(1) The members of the Editorial Board are appointed by the Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (hereinafter referred to as the “FPR UWB”) from among prominent experts in the fields of law and social sciences, and exceptionally also related sciences.
(2) The Editorial Board is headed by its chairman. The chairman of the Editorial Board is the Dean of the FPR UWB or a person appointed by him.
(3) The chairman of the Editorial Board is represented by the vice-chairman if necessary. The vice-chairman of the Editorial Board is appointed by the Dean of the FPR UWB from among the members of the Editorial Board.
Art. 3
(1) The Presidium of the Editorial Board (hereinafter referred to as the “Presidium”) decides on all issues pertaining to the Editorial Board, in particular on issues related to the publication or rejection of manuscripts in the period between meetings of the Editorial Board.
(2) The Board is headed by the Chairman of the Editorial Board, and if necessary, he is represented by the Vice-Chairman of the Editorial Board. The other three members of the Board are appointed by the Dean of the FPR UWB from among the members of the Editorial Board.
(3) The Board decides by an absolute majority of all members. The Chairman informs the members of the Editorial Board about the decisions of the Board at the next meeting.
(4) In the event of controversial issues, the Editorial Board decides.
Art. 4
Matters related to the publication of the journal are handled by the Executive Editor. The Executive Editor is appointed by the Dean of the FPR UWB. The Executive Editor participates in meetings of the Editorial Board and the Board with an advisory vote.
Art. 5
(1) The Editorial Board is usually convened twice a year by the Chairman of the Editorial Board.
(2) The chairman shall convene the editorial board for an extraordinary meeting upon the proposal of at least five members of the editorial board or upon the proposal of the dean of the FPR UWB.
Art. 6
(1) Each member of the editorial board has the right to request additions to the agenda. The editorial board shall decide on additions to the agenda.
(2) Each member of the editorial board has the right to express his/her opinion, ask questions and make comments during the discussion of individual points of the agenda, as well as to request that his/her different opinion be recorded.
Art. 7
The meeting of the editorial board shall be chaired by its chairman. In his/her absence, the meeting of the editorial board shall be chaired by a member of the editorial board authorized to do so by the chairman of the editorial board.
Art. 8
(1) The editorial board shall be able to quorate if at least half of its members and at least one third of the external members are present at the meeting.
(2) If half of the members of the Editorial Board are not present at the meeting, their decision shall be deemed to have been duly adopted if, at the proposal of the Chairman, the majority of all members of the Editorial Board subsequently express their consent in writing, but no later than one month from the date on which the meeting was convened.
Art. 9
(1) The Editorial Board shall adopt a resolution by a majority of the votes of the members present. Each member of the Editorial Board shall have one vote. Voting shall usually be public. Voting shall be secret at the request of at least one third of the members of the Editorial Board present.
(2) The Chairman of the Editorial Board may propose a roll call vote in urgent cases. If a member of the Editorial Board fails to vote within the time limit set by him, he shall be deemed to have abstained from voting. If any member of the Editorial Board expresses disagreement with the roll call vote, the proposal shall be decided on at the next meeting of the Editorial Board.
Art. 10
(1) Minutes of the meeting of the editorial board shall be taken by a person authorized by the chairman, which shall be sent to all members of the editorial board, the dean of the Faculty of Arts of the University of West Bohemia, the executive editor and the person responsible for publishing the journal.
(2) The minutes shall be considered final if none of the members of the editorial board has raised objections to their wording within one week of the date of their distribution.
(3) In the event of objections to the wording of the minutes by a member of the editorial board, the final wording shall be decided at the next meeting of the editorial board.
Code of Ethics of the Journal Právnické listy
Právnické listy is a journal that publishes scientific articles in the field of state and law. Each contribution is subject to a review procedure that is governed by the Rules for Publication and Review Procedure. The review procedure is an anonymous and well-founded appointment of reviewers from among leading experts on a given topic, who are independent and impartial and can reasonably be expected to provide a thorough, objective and fair assessment.
This Code of Ethics contains rules for the conduct of all participants in the review procedure and reviewers of manuscripts. All authors, members of the editorial board and reviewers are obliged to follow these rules.
1. Rules for authors
1.1. Each manuscript proposed by an author for publication in the journal Právnické listy must be an original work. If the author has offered the same manuscript to another journal, he/she must immediately inform the editors of this circumstance, which leads to the suspension of the review process until the author decides in which journal he/she will seek publication. An exception to the principle of originality applies to a) conference contributions from major international conferences that have been published on the WEB of the relevant conference and to b) unpublished master's, rigorous, dissertation and habilitation theses or parts thereof. The author is obliged to inform the editors of the facts a) and b) and explicitly state them in the manuscript. Concealing the above-mentioned facts is considered unethical and will lead to the rejection of the manuscript.
1.2. Any form of plagiarism is considered unethical. A scientific article aims to communicate new knowledge that the author independently arrived at with original argumentation. Falsification of arguments, fabrications, serious omissions or paraphrasing of other people's ideas without citing them will result in the rejection of the manuscript. The manuscript must clearly demonstrate its original contribution, which the author will also briefly outline in the Czech and English abstract. If this contribution is not evident from the manuscript, the manuscript will be rejected. Authors are required to cite the works of other authors if they use their ideas. A manuscript demonstrably based solely on other people's ideas will be rejected. A manuscript containing only ideas already published by the author himself elsewhere will be rejected. It is permissible to publish partial results of one's own research, provided that each partial publication retains its originality in both the research goal and the structure and content. The authors understand that the originality of the work will be verified, among other things, by means of plagiarism detection programs.
1.3. The author must not infringe copyright. If the author uses other people's works in the manuscript (e.g. copyrighted data, programs, tables or graphs), the publication of which requires the consent of another author, the author shall obtain the necessary consent before sending the contribution to the editors. As the publisher of the journal, the Faculty of Law of the UWB holds the copyright to all articles published in Právních listy. Reprinting or other forms of publication require the consent of the editors of Právních listy.
2. Rules for members of the editorial board
2.1. Members of the editorial board are obliged to maintain independence and impartiality. Abuse of the position of a member of the editorial board, which could in any way harm the author of the manuscript, is excluded. Members of the editorial board shall proceed discreetly, impartially, promptly and constructively. Manuscripts are assessed only on the basis of professional quality. Members of the editorial board shall avoid ideological prejudices, personal preferences or disrespect for methodological plurality.
2.2. The review process is based on the principle of selecting reviewers from among prominent industry specialists by the editorial board of Právních listy. At least two reviewers are required to assess a manuscript. In the case of reviews, annotations or reports from scientific life, one reviewer is usually sufficient. Reviewers with any connection to the author being reviewed are excluded from the review process. Reviewers are selected on the basis of their previous publications, research practice and experience with reviews of prominent works in the given field.
2.3. The author may ask the editorial office to exclude a certain reviewer, whom they consider to be biased, for example. The decision to exclude such a reviewer, however, depends on the editorial board presidency.
2.4. The editorial board is responsible for accepting or rejecting manuscripts. In its decision-making, however, it respects the recommendations of the reviewers, the editorial board presidency and, where applicable, the journal's editorial board. The review process is based on the collective decision of independent reviewers and the decision-making rules according to Art. 7 Rules for the publication and review process of the journal Právnické listy in the event of disagreement between reviewers.
2.5. The editorial board is obliged to inform the authors about the results of the review process.
3. Rules for reviewers
3.1. The work of a reviewer is a responsible decision on the fate of the manuscript of a particular author, but also the contribution to the journal and the scientific community. Therefore, reviewers proceed objectively and constructively. Reviewers are obliged to refuse to prepare a review if they feel an imminent or actual conflict of interest. They inform the editorial board about this problem immediately.
3.2. The aim of the review process is, on the one hand, to ensure a high professional standard of the journal, but on the other hand, also to ensure that quality ideas do not escape the attention of the scientific community. Reviewers approach the evaluation constructively, professionally and fairly. In the event of a manuscript rejection, they should clearly state the reasons that led them to do so and state them in the review. If they have reservations about the manuscript, they should try to recommend to the author, through the review, what steps could lead to the publication of the manuscript.
3.3. If a reviewer feels incompetent to review the manuscript, he or she should immediately notify the editors.
3.4. All reviewers' actions must be based on a sincere effort not to harm the authors of the manuscripts and at the same time ensure the high standard of the journal. Even the rejection of a manuscript should be done in an acceptable manner, stating the reasons that could help the author submit a better manuscript next time.
3.5. It is the duty of reviewers to adhere to the prescribed deadlines and to prepare their reviews properly and on time.
3.6. The Editorial Board is fully aware that the professional quality of the journal depends primarily on the quality of the review process, which must be conducted transparently, fairly and professionally, without causing any harm to individual authors.
Rules for publication and review of the journal Právnické listy
Art. 1
(1) The journal Právnické listy accepts for publication only manuscripts that correspond to the content focus of the journal and meet the formal requirements required by the editorial board (see Guidelines for authors).
(2) If the manuscript does not meet the formal requirements, the executive editor will invite the author to remove them. If the author does not remove the deficiencies within one month of receiving the invitation, the executive editor will forward the manuscript to the chairman of the editorial board, who will decide on the rejection of the manuscript or further action.
Art. 2
(1) The journal Právnické listy publishes only original manuscripts that respect the journal’s code of ethics and the content focus of the journal.
(2) Manuscripts that do not respect the journal’s content focus, the code of ethics, or non-original manuscripts that have already been published in other journals or rejected in the journal’s review process will be rejected by the editorial board.
(3) Exceptionally, a manuscript that has already been published abroad, especially in proceedings of major world conferences, may be published, provided that it is explicitly stated that it is a translation of an already published contribution or its Czech version, including a reference to the relevant source.
Art. 3
(1) If the manuscript is not rejected by the chairman of the reaction board for formal reasons or by the editorial board for reasons of non-originality, non-compliance with the code of ethics or the focus of the journal, or for reasons that it has already been published, the chairman of the editorial board will propose initiating a review procedure.
(2) According to the Guidelines for Authors, the manuscript must be submitted in two versions, i.e. anonymized form and open form. Only the anonymized form of the manuscript is included in the review procedure.
Art. 4
(1) At least two reviewers are assigned to each manuscript.
(2) In the case of reviews, annotations or reports from scientific life, one reviewer is usually sufficient.
(3) Reviewers are appointed by the editorial board of the journal from among leading experts on the given topic.
Art. 5
(1) The reviewer shall review the manuscript within a reasonable period of time, usually within 30 days of its submission. If the reviewer fails to submit the review to the editors even after being reminded or refuses to process the review, the board shall appoint a new reviewer without undue delay.
(2) The reviewer shall include in the review a brief assessment of the quality of the manuscript and any comments or reservations regarding its content; the review shall also include a conclusion as to whether or not the manuscript is recommended for publication, or whether it is recommended for publication after revision (see the standardized form for opponents).
(3) If the review contains comments or reservations, the reviewer shall also state what the author must take into account or what is left to his discretion.
(4) If the reviewer recommends a manuscript for publication, he shall state in cases where it is not obvious which section of the journal he proposes to include the manuscript in.
(5) If the review does not comply with the provisions of paragraphs 2 to 4, the editorial board shall request its completion and revision and shall set a reasonable deadline for the reviewer to do so. In the event of failure to comply with this deadline, the board shall appoint another reviewer.
Art. 6
(1) If the reviewers do not agree on the suitability of the manuscript for publication, the board of the editorial board shall appoint another reviewer or decide on the publication of the contribution itself.
(2) In the event that the Board of Directors disagrees, the Chairman of the Editorial Board shall decide on the publication. The Editorial Board shall be informed of this decision at its next meeting.
Art. 7
(1) After the review procedure is completed, the Editorial Board shall notify the author of the decision made regarding his manuscript and shall acquaint the author with the review opinions.
(2) If the author does not comply with the comments and reservations or both opinions are negative, the Board of Directors shall refuse to publish the contribution.
Art. 8
After discussion in the Board of Directors, the Executive Editor shall decide on the inclusion of approved manuscripts in individual issues of the journal. In doing so, he shall, as far as possible, ensure the thematic balance of each issue; this shall not apply if a monothematic issue is published, focusing on one of the serious and current theoretical issues in summary, as recommended by the Editorial Board.