ISSN 2524-101X

e-ISSN 2617-541X

DOI: 10.62821/lp

Lex Portus

The stone stele containing the carved text of Lex Portus Asiae, adopted by the Roman emperor Neron in 62 AD, was discovered in Ephesus in 1976. That was the first known law on customs duties (portorium) for land and sea trade in the Roman province of Asia.

155 lines contained the Greek translation of the Latin customs law regulating the relationship between tax debtors, customs collectors, and Roman treasury, procedures of duty calculation, payment and enforcement, and customs immunities.

(from: Purpura G. La provincia romana d’Asia, i publicani e l’epigrafe di Efeso (Monumentum Ephesinum) in: Iura, Rivista Internazionale di Diritto Romano e Antico, 52, 2001, (in corso di stampa).

Aims & Scope

Lex Portus is a Diamond Open Access law scientific journal which publishes original research articles and reviews in the areas of Maritime and Transport Law, International Trade, Customs and Tax Law, Border Management, Globalization and Europeanization of Administrative Law.

Lex Portus is a peer reviewed scientific journal which is committed to be a reliable source of current information on developments in the field and to serve as a forum for leading scholars and practitioners. Our Editorial Board makes rapid and fair publication decisions that are based on the principles of The COPE Code of Conduct for Journal Editors and COPE Core Practices.

Registration

Lex Portus (Online media) is registered by the National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine (Decision of 2023, July 27, No. 621).

Lex Portus is registered by the Ministry of Education and Sciences of Ukraine for publishing results of Doctoral and PhD dissertations (Decree of the Ministry of Education and Sciences of Ukraine of 2021, June 29, No. 735).

Indexing

Lex Portus is indexed in Crossref, Den Bibliometriske Forskningsindikator (BFI), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS), Google Scholar, HeinOnline, Julkaisufoorumi, Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers (NSD), ROAD, Scopus, Web of Science Core Collection: Emerging Sources Citation Index.

Archiving

To grant permanent access to its publications, Lex Portus deposits Open Access articles in Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine and the Repository of the National University “Odessa Law Academy”. Authors are also permitted to post the final, published PDF of their article on a website, institutional repository, or other free public resources, immediately upon publication.

Open Access Policy

Lex Portus journal supports the Budapest Open Access Initiative. Abstracts and full texts of all papers published by Lex Portus are freely accessible to everyone immediately after publication. Under its Diamond OA policy, the journal does not charge publication fees.

Lex Portus journal was founded in 2016.

Media entity NGO "Lex Portus", identifier of online media R40-01090.

The journal is published by NGO “Lex Portus” in cooperation with National University "Odessa Law Academy"

The frequency of publication is 6 times per year.

The language of publication is English. Abstracts are also published in Ukrainian.

UDC 341, 342.9+351.713

Journal metrics

2,5 (2025) CiteScore (Scopus)

Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile (Scopus)

1,0 (2025) Impact Factor (WoS)

Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile (WoS)

0.651 (2025) SNIP

0.280 (2025) SJR

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