Copyright and licensing

This page explains who owns the rights in articles published in Journal of Law and Human Society and how others may use them. The journal applies the article's licence (the licence shown on each article). The same licence is shown on every article and in its metadata.

Authors' rights

• Authors keep the rights described in the licence shown on each article and grant Journal of Law and Human Society the right of first publication.
• Authors may share the published version anywhere (institutional or subject repositories, personal websites, academic networks) with a full citation and a link to the article.
• Authors may reuse their work in later publications such as books or theses, citing the original article.
• Authors may enter into separate arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version, with an acknowledgement of first publication in this journal.

Readers' rights

Readers may use articles according to the licence shown on each article and in its metadata. Readers must always:

• give appropriate credit to the authors and the journal,
• provide a link to the licence (), and
• indicate whether changes were made, when the licence allows adaptations.

Third-party material

Authors must obtain permission to reproduce figures, tables or text owned by others and state this in the caption. Material that cannot be licensed under the licence shown on each article must be marked as such.

Licence statement

Every article in Journal of Law and Human Society is published under the article's licence (the licence shown on each article). The canonical licence URL is . The same statement appears on the article page, in the PDF and in the article metadata, so that it is machine-readable by indexing services.