The Italian Journal of International and Comparative Law is committed to ensuring the quality of articles. To this aim, it expects Authors, Editors and Reviewers to conform to international publishing standards of ethical behavior, in accordance with the ethics guidelines developed by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics).

When submitting a paper, authors should provide all relevant pieces of information requested by the submission policy and avoid providing fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements. Authors should ensure that their work is entirely original, correctly citing the work of others and obtaining necessary permissions for reproducing any content. Any form of plagiarism is unacceptable. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical behaviour and violates the submission policy. Only those who have made significant contributions to the manuscript should be listed as co-authors, and all co-authors should approve the final version of the paper before publication. Authors should disclose any potential conflicts of interest that could influence their manuscript and all sources of financial support for the project. If significant errors or inaccuracies are found in the published work, authors have the duty to promptly notify the journal and cooperate to correct the paper.

Editors are committed to evaluating manuscripts solely on their academic merit and relevance to the journal’s scope, irrespective of the authors’ gender, race, ethnicity, religion, or political beliefs. Editors shall not use any information from the manuscripts for their own research without the express consent of the authors. Manuscripts under review will be treated as confidential documents. Editors will act promptly if ethical complaints arise concerning a submitted manuscript or a published paper and will ensure that the peer review process is fair, unbiased and timely. In cases of proven misconduct, editors will ensure the publication of corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.

Reviewers must treat manuscripts received for review as confidential documents, not to be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editors. Reviews should be conducted objectively and constructively, providing clear, documented and fair feedback to help authors improve their work. Reviewers should not accept manuscripts for review if they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative or other relationships with any of the authors or institutions connected to the papers. They should agree to review manuscripts only if they can return reviews within the proposed or mutually agreed time frame.