1. At least two independent peer Reviewers from outside of the research unit of the Author of the article shall be appointed.

2. Article will be presented to the Reviewers anonymized, without data allowing for identification of the Author; their reviews will be presented to the Author anonymized, without data allowing for identification of the reviewers (double blind peer review process).

3. In case the reviewers would nonetheless be able to identify the Author of the reviewed article, they will be asked to sign a declaration of the absence of conflict of interests (Appendix 1). Conflict of interest occurs if Reviewers relationship to the Author is of such a kind that it could give rise to doubts on his impartiality and objectivity. Among other cases, conflict of interests occurs, if the Reviewer and the Author are in direct personal relationship (second degree relationship, marriage), are professional subordinates of each other, or were in direct professional scientific cooperation in the past two years preceding the year of preparation of the review. If conflict of interest exists or the Reviewer cannot or doesn’t sign the declaration for other reasons, the Editorial Board appoints different Reviewer.

4. Peer review is submitted to the editorial board in written form and contains an unambiguous conclusion concerning the conditions for acceptation or rejection of the reviewed article.

5. Anonymized reviews are disclosed to the Author of the article.

6. Decision about publishing the article is positive, if the article met the following criteria:

a. Passed the initial verification of the relevant section editor,

b. It has received two positive reviews and any eventual comments by the Reviewers on the eligibility for publication have been addressed by the Author,

c. It received a positive opinion of the Editor-in-Chief.

7. The basis of the rejection of the article are:

a. Negative assessment of the initial section editor,

b. At least one negative peer review or review pointing the need of changes in the article that were left unaddressed by the Author,

c. Negative opinion of the Editor-in-Chief.

 

 

Appendix 1

DECLARATION OF ABSENCE OF CONFLICT OF INTERESTS

 

Reviewer’s full name

………………………………………………………………………..

 

Reviewer’s affiliation

………………………………………………………………………..

 

As a Reviewer of the article submitted to the Financial Law Review Journal, entitled

………………………………………………………………………..

article’s title

written by

………………………………………………………………………..

article’s Author full name

from

………………………………………………………………………..

article’s Author affiliation

 

I hereby declare that no conflict of interests exists between me and the Author, in particular I am not in direct personal relationship (second degree relationship, marriage) with the Author, nor am I her/his professional subordinate or she/he is of mine; we were not in direct professional scientific cooperation in the past two years preceding the year of preparation of the review; nor is my relationship to her/him of such a kind that it could give rise to doubts on his impartiality and objectivity.

 

Signature, date and place

………………………………………………………………………..