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The “Law and State” journal 
Maqsut Narikbayev University 
(Astana, The Republic of Kazakhstan).

The “Law and State” scientific law journal has been issued since 1997. Frequency of publication – 4 issues per year. Scientific articles, notes, reports on the results of research in various areas of law, reviews of new legal research publications, articles about important scientific conferences on problems of state and law are published in the journal.
The journal is one of the leading scientific law journals in Kazakhstan, its founder is Maqsut Narikbayev University– the flagship of legal education in Kazakhstan
The journal covers fundamental and applied questions of law science, such as philosophy of law, theory and history of state and law, history of political and law studies, international public and private law, comparative law studies, constitutional law, administrative law and public administration, civil law and litigation, labor law, environmental law, criminal law and criminology, criminal procedure, the problems of other branches of the law, as well as the history of jurisprudence and legal education. They are reflected in the articles of the leading Kazakhstani and foreign authors that meet the requirements of novelty, relevance, fundamental results and practical value.

Among the foreign authors of the “Law and State” journal since 2013 have been Starilov Yu.N. – Doctor of Law, Professor (Russia), Avakyan S.A. – Doctor of Law, Professor (Russia), Howard Schweber – Ph.D. (the USA), Sturma P. – prof., JUDr, DrSc., (the Czech Republic), Saidov A.H. – Doctor of Law, Professor (Uzbekistan), Marchenko M.N. – Doctor of Law, Professor (Russia), Deryabina E.M. – Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor (Russia), Rossinskaya E.R. – Doctor of Law, Professor (Russia), Ustimenko V.A. – Doctor of Law, Professor (Ukraine), Syrykh V.M. – Doctor of Law, Professor (Russia), Joerg Pudelka – Berlin (Germany), Nemytina M.V. – Doctor of Law, Professor (Russia), Kucher O.S. – (Ukraine), Dmitrienko I.A. – Candidate of Historical Sciences (the Kyrgyz Republic), Bogolyubov S.A. – Doctor of Law, Professor (Russia), Tanchev E. – Ph.D., Professor (Bulgaria), Beniamino Caravita di Toritto – Professor (Rome, Italy), Costei E. – (the Republic of Moldova), Troshchinskiy P.V. – Candidate of Legal Sciences (Russia), Medvedev V.G. – Doctor of Law, Сandidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor (Russia), Abdul Wahab Abdul – Ph.D. (United Arab Emirates), Bondar N.S. – Doctor of Law, Professor (Russia), Slavica Baniс – Candidate of Legal Sciences (the Republic of Croatia), Oliynyk A.R. – Candidate of Legal Sciences (Ukraine), Moiseev A.A.– Doctor of Law, Professor (Russia), Timoshina E.V. – Doctor of Law, Professor (Russia), Belyaev V.P. – Doctor of Law, Professor (Russia), Chirkin V.E. – Doctor of Law, Professor (Russia), Sinelnikova V.N. – Doctor of Law, Professor (Russia), Valkova E.V. – Candidate of Legal Sciences (Ukraine), Belykh V.S. – Doctor of Law, Professor (Russia), Gagik Harutyunyan – Doctor of Law, Professor (the Republic of Armenia), Jacques Attali – Professor of Economics (France), Zorkin V.D. – Doctor of Law, Professor (Russia), Permyakov Yu.E. – Candidate of Legal Sciences (Russia), Lapina M.A. – Doctor of Law, Professor (Russia), Ponkin I.V. – Doctor of Law, Professor (Russia), Sukhanov Ye.A. – Doctor of Law, Professor (Russia), Vasilevich S.G. – Doctor of Law, Professor (the Republic of Belarus), Mykhailenko D.G. – Candidate of Legal Sciences (Ukraine), Goloskokov L.V. – Doctor of Law, Associate Professor (Russia), Kleandrov M.I. – Doctor of Law, Professor (Russia), Latyshov I.V. – Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor (Russia), Dronova О.B. – Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor (Russia), Usov А.I. – Doctor of Law, Professor (Russia), Aminev F.G. – Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor (Russia), Peter Juza – Doctor of Philosophy, Candidate of Political Sciences (the Slovak Republic), Filipova I.A. – Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor (Russia), Rozhdestvenskaya T.E. – Doctor of Law, Professor (Russia), Guznov A.G. – Candidate of Legal Sciences (Russia), Grushin F.V. – Candidate of Legal Sciences (Russia) and others.

The journal is registered at the ISSN International Centre in Paris both as printed and electronic edition. In accordance with the Certificate number 7742-Zh of September 25, 2006 the “Law and State” journal of Maqsut Narikbayev University is registered at the Committee for Information and Archives of the Ministry of Culture and Information.
The “Law and State” journal is included in the data base of "The National Center of Science and Technology Evaluation of the Republic of Kazakhstan", since 2013 in Russian Science Citation Index and the “IPRbooks” electronic library system as well.

The “Law and State” journal is included in the list of journals recommended for publication of the main research results approved by decree of the Committee for Quality Assurance in Education and Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of 10 July, 2012 N 1082.

Over 27 years of its development Maqsut Narikbayev University, which issues the journal, changed the name five times: Kazakh State Law Institute (1994-1996, Almaty); Kazakh State Law University (1996-2000, Almaty); Kazakh State Law Academy (2000-2001, Almaty); Kazakh Humanities and Law University (KazHLU since 2001, Astana); KAZGUU University (since 2015, Astana); M. Narikbayev KAZGUU University (since 2018, Astana).

Throughout the years, the chief editor of the “Law and State” journal were:

Uvarov V.N. – Doctor of Law, Professor – 1997-1998;
Zhirenchin K.A. – Doctor of Law, Professor – 1998-2000;
Mindagulov A.Kh. – Doctor of Law, Professor – 2000-2002;
Maulenov K.S. – Doctor of Law, Professor – 2002;
Zhirenchin K.A. – Doctor of Law, Professor – 2003;
Toleubekova B.Kh. – Doctor of Law, Professor – 2003-2004;
Mindagulov A.Kh. – Doctor of Law, Professor – 2004-2006;
Baimakhanov M.T.-M. – Doctor of Law, Professor, academician of National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan – 2006-2010;
Kogamov M.Ch. – Doctor of Law, Professor – 2010-2012.
Udartsev S.F. – Doctor of Law, Professor – 2012-2022.
Since 2023, the editor-in-chief of the journal "Law and State" is A.B. Didikin – PhD, PhD, Associate Professor of the Higher School of Law Maqsut Narikbayev University.
The editorial board of the journal includes leading professors and associate professors of the University, as well as a number of other universities.
The editorial council consists of heads of law enforcement bodies, famous scholars of Kazakhstan and foreign countries. In 2013-2015 the Head of the editorial council was Doctor of Law, Professor M.S. Narikbayev; in 2015-2019 – Doctor of Law, Professor U.S. Dzhekebayev; since 2019 – Doctor of Law, Professor M.A. Sarsembayev.
The journal aims at promoting the development of legal science and representing in the information space scholars and legal science of the Republic of Kazakhstan in general and particularly of Maqsut Narikbayev University as the flagship of legal education of Kazakhstan and one of the legal science centers, through the quality selection of domestic and foreign authors, reviewers, the editorial council and board, keeping the subject matter of the journal and its content up-to-date, turning it into an international law journal and including it in foreign citation index systems.
The “Law and States” journal is issued once a quarter, the content is published in Russian, Kazakh and English. The journal is distributed to the leading libraries and universities of Kazakhstan, CIS and other countries.