Terms of Use | The Moroccan Law Review

1. Publisher

The Site is published and edited by Jadoua Benseghir, founder and editor-in-chief of The Moroccan Law Review, individual publisher, Casablanca, Morocco.

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2. Nature of the content — no legal advice

The Moroccan Law Review publishes independent legal research, commentary and reference material on Moroccan law, in English, French and Arabic.

Everything published on the Site is general information and academic commentary. It is not legal advice, and it is not a substitute for advice given by a qualified professional on your own facts.

Reading the Site, or sending a message through one of its forms, does not create a lawyer–client, adviser–client or any other professional relationship between you and the editor. No such relationship arises until an engagement is agreed in writing.

The editor is a legal researcher and juriste, not an avocat registered with a Moroccan bar. Where a matter requires representation before a Moroccan court, or any act reserved by law to the legal professions, you must instruct a locally qualified professional.

3. Accuracy and currency

Moroccan law changes. Texts are amended, implementing decrees are published later than the laws they apply to, and official sources are not always consolidated.

The Site aims to identify its sources precisely and to state the date on which a position was verified. Even so, the content is provided “as is” and without warranty of any kind, express or implied, as to accuracy, completeness, currency or fitness for any particular purpose. Always verify against the Bulletin officiel and the current consolidated text before relying on any point.

To the fullest extent permitted by Moroccan law, the editor accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising from reliance on the Site, from its unavailability, or from any error or omission in it.

4. Intellectual property

All content on the Site — articles, analysis, translations, tables, figures, the site design, the name “The Moroccan Law Review” and its logo — is protected under Law No. 2-00 on copyright and related rights (promulgated by Dahir No. 1-00-20 of 15 February 2000, as amended) and applicable international conventions.

You may read, print and quote short extracts for personal, academic, professional or journalistic use, provided you attribute them to the author and to The Moroccan Law Review and, where possible, link to the original page.

You may not, without prior written permission:

reproduce or republish substantial parts of an article;
use the content to train, fine-tune or build a machine-learning or generative AI system;
use the content for commercial purposes, including resale or paid distribution;
copy the design, structure or branding of the Site.

Official Moroccan legal texts quoted on the Site are public texts; the selection, arrangement, translation and commentary around them are not.

5. Submissions

If you send a paper, article, abstract or other material through the submission form or by email:

you confirm that the work is yours, that it is original, and that publishing it will not infringe anyone else’s rights;
you keep the copyright in your work;
you grant The Moroccan Law Review a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to review the work and, if accepted, to publish, translate, archive and promote it on the Site and its associated channels, with attribution to you;
you accept that submission does not guarantee publication, that the editor may decline without giving reasons, and that accepted texts may be edited for length, clarity, style and referencing before publication, with material changes shown to you first;
no fee is payable by you, and none is payable to you, unless agreed separately in writing.

You may ask for your submission to be withdrawn at any time before publication.

6. Enquiries and consultation requests

The contact and consultation forms are for initial enquiries only. Do not send confidential, privileged or sensitive material through them, and do not send anything subject to a limitation period without confirming that it has been received.

Sending an enquiry creates no obligation on either side. Any engagement, its scope and its terms will be set out separately in writing.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to: use the Site unlawfully; attempt to gain unauthorised access to it or to its infrastructure; interfere with its operation; scrape it systematically or at a volume that burdens it; or submit false, misleading, unlawful or abusive content through its forms.

8. External links

The Site links to official sources (the SGG, Adala, the Bulletin officiel) and to third-party material. Those sites are not under the editor’s control and links do not imply endorsement. The editor is not responsible for their content or availability.

9. Changes

These terms may be updated. The version in force is the one published on this page, with the date shown above. Continued use of the Site after a change means you accept the updated terms.

10. Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms are governed by Moroccan law. Any dispute relating to the Site or to these terms falls within the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of Casablanca, Morocco, subject to any mandatory rule of law that gives jurisdiction elsewhere to a consumer.