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Author Guidelines

Derecho Público Iberoamericano is a biannual journal of the Constitutional Justice Center of the Universidad del Desarrollo Law School. It is published in April and October of each year.

It aims to analyze contemporary public law from a problematic perspective, raising doubts where there is artificial consensus, providing certainties where there is permanent dissent, with the conviction that the principles of all research in this area are the fundamental rights of the human person and the promotion of the common good. In this task, we seek to link the national and foreign scientific community, promoting with special effort the analysis of the difficulties faced by Ibero-American law, without detriment to the plurality and universal interest that corresponds to any scientific publication.

To achieve these objectives, Ibero-American Public Law promotes, cultivates and disseminates the study of public law from different scientific approaches: constitutional dogmatics, international human rights law, constitutional theory, legal and political philosophy, legal sociology, history of law and other concurrent disciplines.

The journal has four permanent sections: "studies", "essays", "jurisprudence commentaries" and "recensions".

Matters of interest:

• Fundamental rights.
• Constitutional justice.
• Political organization.
• Administrative law.
• Economic regulation.
• Other concurrent disciplines: Tax law, economic law, environmental law, electricity law, water law, etcetera.

Perspectives of interest:

• Legal dogmatics.
• Theory of Law.
• Practical evaluation.
• Jurisprudential analysis.
• Legal sociology.
• History of Law.
• Legal and political philosophy.
• Other concurrent optics.

Collaboration types:

• Doctrinal articles.
• Monographs.
• Essays.
• Commentary on jurisprudence.
• Commentary on legal problems.
• Reviews or bibliographical reviews.

Rules for the writing of papers:

1. Papers must be unpublished and original. They should be written in Spanish, unless the author's academic affiliation is different, in which case the manuscript will be published in the corresponding language. Translations into Spanish of articles already published in another language will not be considered original.

2. Scientific studies or articles must be headed with a title in Spanish and English, an abstract in Spanish and English of no more than one hundred and fifty words, and between three and five key words, in both languages. This resource is mandatory in the case of studies and essays.

3. The author's name should be indicated under the title. The professional title, academic degrees, university or institution to which he/she belongs and e-mail address should be mentioned at the bottom of the page. In case of having several academic degrees, the highest should be indicated.

4. Manuscripts must be written in Times New Roman font, size 12 with 1.5 line spacing for text and 10 for notes with 1.15 line spacing, on a letter size paper. The length, including quotations, tables and graphs, should be between seven thousand and ten thousand words maximum.

Bibliographic references:

1. Bibliographical references at the foot of the page should be abbreviated so as not to make the text too bulky. Only three elements should be indicated: author -first name and surname (surnames in small caps)-, title of the work (italics if it is a book, and "in quotation marks" if it is an article), and page cited.

• Example: Jesús González Pérez, El principio general de la buena fe en el Derecho Administrativo, p. 46.

The jurisprudential references will be indicated as follows:

• Court/ (year of dictation); Rol/, recital or paragraph cited.

If the identity of the parties is relevant for the identification of the judgment, it may also be added, after the identification of the court and before the year of dictation.

In the case of foreign or international courts, the footnote reference may be made according to the official or common usage of each court recognized in the scientific community, as is the case, for example, of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights or the Spanish Constitutional Court.

2. The complete reference of the works cited will be made at the end of the work under the title Bibliography.

If it is a book, the following order should be followed: Author(s), whether institution or person (first name in round letters, last name in small caps), Title of publication (in italics) / (Edition, if not the first, Place of publication, Publisher, Year of publication, vol. or vols. -without indicating the number of pages.

• Example: Jesús González Pérez, El principio general de la buena fe en el Derecho Administrativo, 2ª ed., Madrid, Civitas, 1983, vol. iii.

If it is a translation, it can be indicated as follows:

• Example: Philippe Le Tourneau, La responsabilidad civil, traducción de Javier Tamayo Jaramillo, Bogotá, Editorial Legis, 2004.

If it is an article in a book: Author(s) of the article (name in round letters, surname in small caps) / "Title of the article" (in quotation marks) / followed by the word 'in' indicating the name and surname of the editor (ed.), coordinator (coord.) or director (dir.) / Title of the book (in italics) / Edition number, if it is not the first one, Place of publication, Publisher, Year of publication.

• Example: Elena Vicente Domingo, “El daño”, en L. Fernando Reglero Campos (coord.), Tratado de responsabilidad civil, 3ª ed., Madrid, Editorial Aranzadi, 2006.

If it is a journal article: Author(s) of the article (first name in round letters, last name in small caps) /, "Title of the article" (in round letters and in quotation marks) / followed by the word 'in' Name of the journal (in italics), year, vol. and No. (when applicable) / City /Year.

• Example: Andrés Bernasconi Ramírez, “El carácter científico de la dogmática jurídica”, en Revista de Derecho, año 2, vol. xx, Nº 1, Valdivia, 2007.

As for references already cited: as a general rule, they are identified by the author's last name (in small caps), the first two words of the work, ellipsis (in italics if it is a book or in quotation marks if it is an "article"), op. cit. and page, or simply last name (in small caps) and op. cit. when appropriate.

• Examples:
  • González Pérez, El principio..., op. cit.
  • Bernasconi Ramírez, “El carácter...”, op. cit., p. 35.
  • Le Tourneau, op. cit.

If the work or document cited is repeated immediately and successively, it is sufficient to insert ibid. or op. cit. and page, as appropriate.

If it is a document in electronic format: Author(s) (first name in round letters, last name in small caps) / Title (in italics if it is a book and between "quotation marks" if it is an article), year of publication / Available in: Full electronic address. [Date of consultation: ...].

In case of jurisprudence: Court / (Year of pronouncement): Role / Date of the sentence. Place of edition or publication and the person responsible for it, or the electronic source where it is located.