Department of Business Law

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The Makerere University Business School (MUBS) Department of Business Law, which is part of the Faculty of Commerce, is dedicated to promoting legal scholarship, research dissemination, and academic achievement in the area of business and commercial law. The Department offers an organized platform for gathering, storing, and disseminating intellectual outputs, such as research articles, theses, dissertations, policy briefs, and legal studies, through the MUBS Institutional Repository. In keeping with international best practices and the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021), this bolsters MUBS's dedication to open access, knowledge equity, and worldwide research visibility. The repository guarantees long-term digital preservation, improves discoverability, and increases the impact of Department-produced legal and business research.

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The Department is actively depositing new postgraduate theses and peer-reviewed articles into the MUBS Institutional Repository to enhance research visibility. Researchers are encouraged to submit published journal articles within six months of publication in line with the MUBS IR mandatory deposit requirements. Training sessions on repository submission, metadata standards, and open access publishing are ongoing for faculty and postgraduate students. The Department continues to strengthen compliance with open science principles, improving global indexing and discoverability of legal research outputs. Stay connected for more updates on research dissemination, academic events, and repository developments.

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Unless otherwise indicated, all work deposited in this repository is the intellectual property of the respective authors. The MUBS Institutional Repository Policy and any applicable Creative Commons licenses (usually CC BY 4.0 unless otherwise noted) govern the availability of materials. Materials may be accessed, downloaded, and shared by users for scholarly and research purposes as long as the original authors are properly credited. Unless expressly permitted by the relevant license, no content may be used for profit or redistributed in altered form without the express consent of the copyright holder. The repository conforms to both international intellectual property norms and the Uganda Copyright and Neighboring Rights Act.