Submitting a paper for publication in the Romanian Journal of Arbitration, subject to its acceptance by the journal’s editorial board, constitutes the author’s consent to assign the copyright under the following general conditions:

The editorial board will accept the paper on the condition that it reasonably meets, in terms of level and style, the minimum requirements necessary for acceptance, as follows:

• appropriate scientific level;

• compliance with academic ethics and integrity criteria regarding intellectual property and copyright, available

• the topic of the paper should be current and relevant to the field of arbitration;

• the paper should bring a contribution of novelty to the existing doctrine;

• the content of the paper should be updated with the legislation in force at the time of submission.

Approval for publication cannot be given in advance, only based on proposed topics or summaries.

The submission of materials to the Editorial Board of the Romanian Journal of Arbitration does not impose an obligation to publish them. If the paper does not meet the requirements, the Editorial Board and the Publisher have the right to reject its publication in the presented form or to request the author to modify the paper in accordance with the journal’s standards.

The author assigns to the Editorial Board, in accordance with Law no. 8/1996 on copyright and related rights, the following rights:
– the rights to reproduce and distribute the paper in printed format, within an issue of the Romanian Journal of Arbitration in which it is published;
– the rights to reproduce and distribute the paper published in the Romanian Journal of Arbitration in electronic format, for the entire duration of its existence;
– the rights to reproduce and distribute the paper published in the Romanian Journal of Arbitration in electronic format, for the entire duration of its existence in the databases sintact.ro, Kluwer Arbitration, HeinOnline, EBSCO, and ProQuest, without limitation to these, all of which are scientific databases where the Romanian Journal of Arbitration is published;

The materials submitted to the Editorial Board for publication should be sent to the email address: rra@ccir.ro and must meet the following conditions:
– The articles must be submitted in Romanian or English, in Word format, and should be written with diacritics, free of grammatical errors, and in compliance with the abbreviations specified in the pages of the journal. The Editorial Board may request the author to proofread the paper again.
– Each article will have a title, abstract, and keywords in both Romanian and English, and will follow a coherent structure (chapters, sections, correct numbering, etc.).

The author guarantees that they are the sole holder of the copyright over the paper and that the paper is original, except for materials from the public domain and excerpts from other works, which are made in compliance with the legal provisions regarding intellectual property. The author assumes full responsibility for the content of the paper.

Regarding the materials being published, the Editorial Board reserves the following rights:
– to modify their title;
– to correct, if necessary, to rephrase or stylize certain formulations, without affecting the ideas, opinions, and arguments of the authors.

Authors will receive an acknowledgment of receipt within 10 days. To avoid any issues in the document transfer process, we ask authors that, in the event they do not receive confirmation within the mentioned timeframe, to contact the editorial board with a new message.

The decision to publish the article belongs to the Editorial Board of the Journal and will be made following an analysis of the paper, according to the criteria outlined in section 2. In case there are suggestions for modification, they will be communicated to the authors. Refusal to modify the articles as requested by the Editorial Board within a reasonable timeframe agreed upon by the parties will be considered as withdrawal of the article from publication.

Doctrinal articles must be submitted accompanied by an abstract written in English, of no more than one page.

The bibliographic sources must be cited in full, including: the author’s name and initials, the title of the work, edition, publisher, place of publication, year of publication, page(s)/paragraph as applicable. Abbreviations should be used according to the journal’s conventions.

Court decisions presented in full, commented on, or summarized must be final. It should be specified whether they are published and the source.

Authors must specify their full name, profession (position), workplace / place of activity, address, email, and phone number. Upon the Publisher’s request, the author must provide the documents requested (editing agreement, declaration).