Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
Riga Nordic University
Сollective monograph
REFORMING PROCEDURAL LAW
INSTITUTIONS UNDER SPECIAL LEGAL REGIMES
Deadline – January 23, 2026
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Sample of Ukrainian monograph section
Sample of English monograph section
Researchers, professors, and postgraduate students interested in the relevant topic are invited to participate in the writing of the collective monograph.
The future publication will be a result of the activities of the authors’ team united by a common idea to present achievements of their researches.
The monograph is published by the European publishing house “Izdevnieciba “Baltija Publishing” (Riga, Latvia) and recommended for printing by the institution’s academic council.
Three reviewers, who are mentioned in the monograph’s output data, guarantee an independent review.
The monograph is awarded ISBN that permits authors to participate in developing the collective scientific paper published in the country of the EU.
DOI is assigned to every article included in the collective monograph that allows the authors to find their scientific work on the Open Ukrainian Citation Index (OUCI) site, which was developed by specialists of the State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine on behalf of the Collegium of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
The monograph will be available on the website of the European publisher “Izdevnieciba “Baltija Publishing” at the link.
The authors of the collective monograph’s section receive an electronic layout of the collective monograph (as of 2026) and a certificate.
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Djakons Romans – Dr.sc.ing., Professor, Academician, Chairman of the Board of 
Riga Nordic University;
Shcherbaniuk Oksana Volodymyrivna – Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of Procedural Law, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University;
Hordieiev Vitalii Volodymyrovych – Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor at the Department of Procedural Law, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University;
Kondratieva Liudmyla Anatoliivna – PhD in Law, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Procedural Law, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University.
REGISTRATION PROCEDURE:
To publish contributions in the collective monograph, authors should act as follows:
1. fill in an application form and send a manuscript to law@cuesc.org.ua for peer-review before January 23, 2026;
2. send a copy of the payment confirmation following the manuscript’s approval for publication.
Re: Collective monograph on reforming procedural law institutions.
MONOGRAPH TARGET TOPICS:
- Reforming the Bar institution: guarantees of independence and improving the effectiveness of human rights protection.
- The Public Prosecutor’s Office in the procedural law system: transformation of powers and ensuring the principle of the rule of law.
- The judiciary and judicial proceedings: modernization of procedural mechanisms and strengthening of institutional independence.
Why is the publication of the monograph section valuable?
(for fulfilling the licensing conditions,
to obtain the degree of Doctor and Candidate of Sciences,
for awarding the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), for young scientists)
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY:
The Organizing Committee guarantees high-quality anonymous peer-review of each monograph section. All monograph sections are subject to checking for plagiarism using StrikePlagiarism.com by the Polish company Plagiat.pl.
PROHIBITION TO REFER TO THE AGGRESSOR STATE’S SCHOLARLY PAPERS:
We kindly note that the monograph languages are Ukrainian, English, and Latvian. It is prohibited citing and including in the reference list russian-language contributions published in any country, incl. papers written in other languages but published in russia and belarus.
KEY DATES:
The submission of application forms and articles for publishing in the monograph: before January 23, 2026 (inclusively).
Feedback on papers acceptance: within 3–4 working days after papers receipt.
E-mail distribution of the monograph’s layout and the certificate: after April 10, 2026.
ARTICLE REQUIREMENTS:
An article should be a holistic document of scientific content that involves the results of the author’s original researchers.
The volume of the monograph subsection should be at least 15–30 pages. A4 paper format, line space – 1,5; Times New Roman, 14 size; all margins – 20 mm.
3 persons are a maximum number of authors.
Languages: Latvian, English and Ukrainian.
ARTICLE GENERAL STRUCTURE:
Monograph section name; author’s surname and initials in the publication’s language.
A paper should have the following structure: a short introduction (1–2 pages), 2–3 equally weighted sections and conclusion (1 page), summary: 7–10 sentences in the article’s language (to indicate a range of problems and research results), key words.
The article must have per-page citations as well as References at the end. Citations should be indicated with a number without brackets and dots using Microsoft Word references.
To improve the quality level of scientific citations in the scientometric database Open Ukrainian Citation Index (OUCI), it is important to indicate DOI for every source which it has.
Attention! References are in a source language and executed taking into account the National Standard of Ukraine DSTU 8302: 2015 “Information and documentation. Bibliographic reference. General principles and rules of composition”.
Author’s full name and information: scientific degree and rank, post, affiliation; address of employment place (in English regardless of the publication’s language).
Attention! In case of submitting a non-English article, an author should additionally submit an English name of the section and its structural elements (subsections) (see a design sample).
REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE IN UKRAINE:
Center for Ukrainian and European Scientific Cooperation
(according to the signed international cooperation agreement with Riga Nordic University)
Contact person: Tiutiunnyk Tetiana Mykolaivna – Monograph coordinator.
Telephone: +38 (068) 473 07 28
E-mail: law@cuesc.org.ua
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