Aim & Scope

Süleyman Demirel Law Review aims to contribute to national and international legal doctrine. It also aims to serve the legal doctrine by trying to find solutions to the deep-rooted and current problems of law. The Review, which has the status of “Double-blind Peer Reviewed Journal” indexed by ULAKBİM since 2017, is an open-access journal published bi-annually in June and December. Digital Object Identifier (DOI) number will be assigned for each article accepted for publication. The publication language of the Review is Turkish, English, and German. Special issues might be published in print. SDLR includes academic studies such as articles, reviews of judgment, translations and book reviews prepared by academicians, researchers and practitioners in law and other related fields.


In order to ensure that SDLR is scanned in international indexes in the field of social sciences, to provide a universal contribution to the legal doctrine, to increase the impact and visibility of the SDLR; academic studies in English or German languages are accepted for publication as well as Turkish. Therefore, we would like to inform you about our internationalization process for our journal. We would like to be accepted by well-known and prestigious international indexes e.g. ESCI, Scopus and so on. Hence, we wish to your valuable contributions and recommendations to our journal. If you wish, you can submit your papers in English or German to be published in our journal.

SDLR includes academic studies in the field of both public law and private law such as articles, reviews of judgment, translations and book reviews prepared by academicians, researchers and practitioners in law and other related fields.

Period Months
June December