Aims and Scope

Aims

Problems of Modern Law publishes original scholarship that advances the understanding of contemporary legal problems and improves the quality of legislation and law-enforcement practice. The journal aims to raise methodological standards in regional legal research, to make national legal scholarship internationally accessible, and to provide a reliable, transparently reviewed venue for doctoral candidates and established researchers alike.

The journal welcomes doctrinal analysis, comparative studies, empirical and statistical legal research, legislative and case-law analysis, and theoretically grounded policy assessment. Purely descriptive restatements of legislation without independent analytical contribution are outside the journal's remit.

Sections

  • 1. Constitutional and Administrative Law — constitutional theory and interpretation, the organization of public authority, administrative procedure, public-service law, and the administrative-legal regulation of state functions.
  • 2. Criminal Law and Criminology — substantive criminal law and criminal procedure, sentencing, criminological analysis of crime and its determinants, crime prevention, penitentiary law, and criminalistics.
  • 3. Civil Law and Civil Procedure — obligations and contract, property and intellectual property, family and inheritance law, corporate and commercial law, civil and economic procedure, and alternative dispute resolution.
  • 4. International and Comparative Law — public and private international law, human-rights law, treaty practice, regional integration in Central Asia, and comparative studies of foreign legal systems and their relevance to national reform.
  • 5. Digital Law, AI and Cybersecurity — legal regulation of digital technologies, personal-data protection, artificial intelligence and algorithmic accountability, cybercrime, electronic evidence, and the digitalization of justice and public administration.
  • 6. Theory and Practice of Law Enforcement — the organization and effectiveness of law-enforcement bodies, operational-investigative activity, public-order administration, professional ethics and accountability, and applied studies of enforcement outcomes.
  • 7. Reviews and Legal Commentary — reviews of scholarly monographs and dissertations, analytical commentary on newly adopted legislation and significant judicial decisions, and reports on academic events of substantive legal importance.

Readership

The journal addresses academic researchers in the juridical sciences; doctoral candidates pursuing PhD and DSc degrees; judges, prosecutors, advocates, and other legal practitioners; specialists of the internal affairs bodies and other law-enforcement institutions; and legislators and policy analysts working on legal reform.

Geographic Focus

PML gives primary attention to the legal system of the Republic of Uzbekistan and to shared legal problems across Central Asia, while actively encouraging comparative and international contributions. Submissions from authors outside the region are welcome where they address questions of comparative relevance or contribute to international legal debates of interest to the journal's readership.