Author's Guidelines

The European Journal of Privacy Law & Technology (EJPLT) is a European Law Journal awarded Class A status by ANVUR, in Open Access Diamond, focused on law and technology and, specifically, on that between privacy law and technology's development.

Preliminary requirements for the submission of a contribution to the Journal
Journal does not publish contributions that have already been published in other journals, and, in any case, it does not publish papers without footnotes and adequate scientific content, innovation concerning the state of the art and well-defined methodology. A double-blind peer review process is provided for each single paper sent to the Journal.
To ensure a minimum scientific quality of the contributions, authors wishing to submit a contribution to the journal must have at least a Ph.D. (c) title.
Authors who submit a contribution for the first time to the Journal are asked to send their CVs and the link to the official personal academic web page of the university they belong. This is necessary for the verification of the authors' identities.
Furthermore, contributions must focus on the relationship between law and new technologies. Specifically, EJPLT accepts submissions in the following areas, with specific reference to the listed topics:

Legal Area
- Privacy Law
- Information and communication technologies (ICT)
- Artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and Ethics
- Consumer Law in the Digital Age
- Competition Law and data sharing
- Digital Banking Law
- Smart contracts
- Human beings in the digital environment and Biotechnologies
- Green web economy
- Green Law and green technologies
- Legal Design

Technical Area
- Privacy and Big Data
- Privacy in the Internet of Things (IoT)
- Privacy in Blockchain and the most recent technologies
- Privacy in Smartphones and Social Networks
- Data protection by design and by default
- Data visualisation
- Technologies for data storage and retrieval

Behavioural Area
- Organisational behaviour and data security
- Human behaviour and security
- Human aspects of data breaches
- Design thinking for data security
- Human aspects of data privacy and consent
- Social media and data security

The EJPLT is committed to multilingualism and accepts submissions in English, Spanish, French or Italian, using one of the following standards of citation:
» English Standard for the Citation
» Italian Standard for the Citation

Depending on the work you submit, please use one of the following templates:
» Template Articles, comments on decisions and focus
» Template Observatory
» Template Use cases

EJPLT is an Open Access Journal and the Authors do not bear any cost for the publication of their contributions in the Journal.

The copyright of the Issues is of the Publisher, while the intellectual property of the individual contributions remains with the authors, who grant the Publisher a license to publish their contributions in open access diamond.

EJPLT issues are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, International Licence CC-BY-NC-ND, which permits copying and distributing the material for non-commercial (NC) purposes only, in any medium or format in unadapted form only (ND). All the details on the license are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/