Focus and Scope

The Journal intends to be the leading African/international institutional yearly periodic academic journal on jurisprudential legal issues and comparative international law. It publishes intellectual legal studies from both early career researchers and academics within the continent and outside. 

Submissions with interesting intellectual perspectives on the Journal focus are welcome. Kindly endeavor to study the author’s guidelines before any submission as the Journal strictly upholds the guides. The Journal publishes; book reviews, review articles, empirical studies, essays, commentaries and case reviews.

Section Policies

Articles

• Open Submissions
• Indexed
• Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Manuscripts submitted to this Journal are scrutinized for suitability with the objectives of the Journal, the author’s compliance with the guidelines is also examined and if satisfied by the managing editor, it will be subjected to review and if not, it will be rejected. Articles submitted to RUNJJIL are thereafter subjected to double blind peer- review for the evaluations.  The review process shall be done by researchers who are experts in the focus areas of the journal, which might take about eight weeks. After the review, reviewers shall make recommendations and comments on the submitted manuscripts to the editor-in-chief. The reviewer’s comments shall be further processed by the Editor-in-Chief before disseminating the said comments to the authors.  In the communication, the authors are given two weeks or 10 working days to do the revisions and revert back with the revised manuscripts via the means of communication.

In the course of review, reviewers are given room to avoid conflict of interest if by chance any of the reviewers could recognize the work of an author, the peer reviewer can declare or decline the review of that manuscript to avoid any form of biasness. Peer reviewers should exercise objectivity and confidentiality in assessing any author’s work.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.