About the Journal
The Revista de la Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas is a scientific publication of the law program of the School of Law and Political Sciences of the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellin – Colombia. The journal presents results of research processes and some reflections of the political environment, in order to allow readers to have new interpretative perspectives. Revista de la facultad de derecho y ciencias políticas is aimed to academic and research communities of law in order to discuss and debate on legal issues, which concern the national and international communities.
Frequency
Publications are made continuously every six months (January-June and July-December). Reception of proposals for publication closes on June 30 and December 31 of each year.
The sections of the journal are the following
Editorial or Presentation of the Dossier: informs about the content of the issue and the relevance of the topics presented in it.
The Open Theme: section includes articles on a variety of research interests in political theory, different from those gathered in the Dossier.
The Dossier: presents texts that revolve around a specific central theme, which the Editorial Team announced in a formal call for articles.
The structure of the presentation of the different sections of the journal changes in issues that consist exclusively of articles on freely chosen topics, in which case the Dossier section does not appear.
The Journal declares that all the articles it receives are submitted to a plagiarism detection test; the contents that are published in the digital version are freely available and can be downloaded in PDF; the authors should manifest that the text they present is of their own authorship, unpublished and that they respect the intellectual property rights of third parties; and the evaluators should indicate on the evaluation format that they have no conflict of interest with the authors and topics on which they are going to render judgment.
Financing model
Revista de la Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas is Open Access. It is financed and published by the non-profit Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana.