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The Journal of Korean Law assumes that all authors listed in a manuscript have agreed with the following policy on submission of manuscript.

1. Except for the negotiated secondary publication, manuscript submitted to the Journal must be previously unpublished and not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

2. All submissions should be accompanied by a cover letter and a brief abstract. All necessary contact information should also be included. The abstract should be concise, less than 200 words, and describe concisely purpose, methods, and argument of the study. Up to ten keywords should be listed at the bottom of abstract to be used as index terms. The Journal strongly encourages contributors to email their manuscripts in Microsoft Word format to jkl@snu.ac.kr. Citations in manuscripts should appear in footnotes, not endnotes, and follow The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation(18th ed. 2005). The Journal also encourages the use of gender-neutral language.

3. Under any circumstances, the identities of the referees will not be revealed.

4. All published manuscripts become the permanent co-property of Law Research Institute of Seoul National University and may not be published elsewhere without written permission.

The Journal of Korean Law reviews all the recieved materials. Manuscripts are sent to three most relevant investigators for review of the contents. The editor selects peer referees by recommendation of the Editorial Board members or from the specialist database owned by the Editorial Board. For review, names and their affiliations of the authors are blinded.

Acceptance of the manuscript is decided, based on the critiques and recommended decision of the referees. A referee's decision is made as "acceptance without revision," "acceptance after minor revisions," "re-review after revisions," and "rejection." If there is marked discrepancy in the decisions between three referees, the Editor may send the manuscript to another referee for additional comments and recommended decision. Four repeated decisions of "re-review after revision" are regarded as "rejection." The reviewed manuscripts are returned back to the corresponding author with comments and recommended revisions. Names and decisions of the referees are masked. A final decision on acceptance or rejection for publication is fowarded to the corresponding author from the Editorial Office.

The usual reasons of rejection are insufficient originality, serious academic flaws, poor quality of illustrations, or absence of a message that might be important to readers. The peer review process takes usually four to eight weeks after the manuscript submission.

Revisions are usually requested to take account of criticism and comments made by referees. Two copies of revised manuscript should be submitted, including two sets of original illustrations. Failure to resubmit the revised manuscript within two months is regarded as a withdrawal. The corresponding author must indicate clearly what alterations have been made in response to the referees' comments point by point. Acceptable reasons should be given for noncompliance with any recommendation of the referees.

Once accepted, original articles will be published within six months.