About the Journal

Overview

Problems of Modern Law (PML) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to the study of contemporary legal problems in Uzbekistan, Central Asia, and the wider international legal order. The journal publishes original research articles, doctrinal and comparative analyses, empirical legal studies, and substantiated commentary on legislation and law-enforcement practice.

Mission

The journal's mission is to provide a rigorous, transparent, and internationally legible venue for legal scholarship produced in Uzbekistan and the region, and to connect that scholarship with the comparative and international literature. PML seeks to strengthen the evidentiary and methodological standards of legal research, to support the professional development of early-career researchers, and to make the results of legal inquiry directly usable by legislators, courts, and law-enforcement institutions.

Founders

PML is published jointly by the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan and Innovative Academy RSC LLC. The partnership combines the Academy's juridical and law-enforcement expertise with a modern scholarly publishing infrastructure, including DOI registration, indexing, and long-term archiving.

Scope

The journal is organized into seven permanent sections covering constitutional and administrative law; criminal law and criminology; civil law and civil procedure; international and comparative law; digital law, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity; the theory and practice of law enforcement; and reviews and legal commentary. A full description of each section is set out in the Aims and Scope statement.

Frequency and Languages

PML is published quarterly, in four issues per year. Manuscripts are accepted in Uzbek, Russian, and English. Regardless of the language of the article, every publication carries an English title, an English abstract of 150-250 words, and English keywords, together with a reference list rendered in Roman script, with Cyrillic sources transliterated. This requirement ensures that all published research is discoverable and citable internationally.

Open Access and Identifiers

All content is published in immediate open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence, with no embargo period and no charge to readers. Every article receives a Crossref DOI. The journal's ISSN is being registered; the registered number will be published on this page once assigned.