About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Juris Studia journal of the Universidad del Valle Law School (UNIVALLE) is an open access international academic journal; scientific and arbitrated that publishes original works in the field of Legal Science both in the field of public law and private law. The journal publishes research in Spanish, English, Portuguese and French; maintains a flow of calls continues to publish on a semi-annual basis. Juris Studia has the objective of becoming an international reference in Legal Science, directing its publications to: Judges, Researchers, Public Officials, Professors and students in the field of law, which is why it receives works consisting of: letters to the editor, articles originals, bibliographic reviews, jurisprudential comments and legislative comments. 

Peer Review Process

Juris Studia incorporates a rigorous editorial review procedure, made up of academic peers who evaluate the papers submitted to the journal. The review modality is double blind (double blind review) as a system to guarantee impartiality at the time of review of the manuscripts received by the journal. The academic peers that participate in the review process are academics with a master's degree, doctorate and postdoctoral degrees, mostly external to Universidad del Valle and who were selected for their specialty in certain areas of law. The procedure to carry out the evaluation can last approximately 2 months, following these steps: 1. The author(s) send their work to the journal. 2. The Editorial Committee will carry out a first filter of the articles received in which they verify the formal aspects, such as: a. The relevance of the topic. b. Compliance with filing requirements and, c. The originality of the text through the Turnitin anti-plagiarism platform. Once these steps have been completed and if the manuscript meets the first requirements, the procedure continues: 3. The Editorial Committee will designate two specialist peer reviewers who, depending on their knowledge, may be nationals or foreigners, who will carry out the academic evaluation using the double-blind modality. 4. After the review process, the peer reviewers will issue a decision based on three approaches to the manuscript: a. Approved for publication; b. not approved or c. Approved with modifications. In the latter case, the evaluators will clearly indicate the adjustments that must be made to the manuscript. In this case, the manuscript will be returned to the author(s) so that they can learn about the suggestions made by the peers and can make the suggested corrections and/or adjustments, granting a period of 10 days from the electronic notification. 5. Once the corrections have been received by the author, they will be sent to the peer reviewers who must determine if the article is Approved or Not approved for publication with the adjustments made. 6. Once the articles have been evaluated and approved, the Editorial Committee of the journal will inform the authors of the decision and the process of layout and style correction for publication will begin.

Open Access Policy and Dissemination

Juris Studia is developed, published and distributed through free access as a means to democratize access to information. The content of all its issues is available for download in full text, without embargo periods with the aim of increasing the dissemination of research and the exchange of knowledge. Juris Studia does not charge anything for the submission, evaluation and publication of the articles submitted by the authors.

As a general editorial policy of Universidad del Valle, Juris Studia is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license, which allows third parties to mix, transform and create from the content of our articles for commercial and non-commercial purposes, under the condition that all works derived from the original publication be distributed under the same CC-BY-NC-SA license as long as they mention the authorship of the work, and to the first publication in this magazine; The authors may make other independent and additional agreements for the distribution and non-exclusive reproduction of the version published in the journal in other printed or electronic media, provided that the authorship of the work and its initial publication is indicated, as stipulated in the license. ; the authors can archive, in the repository or website of their institution or staff, the version prior to peer review and the one already published, the latter under the format of the journal; any commercial use of the content of our publication will require the prior written authorization of the Scientific Editor.

 

Publication frequency

Juris Studia has a semi-annual publication sequence; publishing the numbers in the months of January - February and November - December of each year. Exceptionally, special issues such as dossiers and/or annals of academic events related to the journal and/or the Universidad del Valle Law School will be published.

 

Conflict of interest

A conflict of interest is understood when an author-editor has an opinion or financial/personal interest that may affect his objectivity or inappropriately influence his actions. Between the types of conflicts can be real or potential. To this effect, Juris Studia only publishes reliable and authorized manuscripts that are free from commercial influences that may in any way influence the academic development of the manuscript. For this purpose, authors are recommended to disclose at the time of submitting their manuscript if they are in any real or potential conflict of interest that inappropriately influences the findings or results of the work presented.

 

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is understood as that action in which the author/s appropriates an idea, passing off the work of others as their own without permission, mention and/or recognition. Juris Studia recognizes as plagiarism different forms in which the original author is not recognized, such as: verbatim copying, paraphrasing, data, ideas and phrases. In that sense of ideas; plagiarism is considered as existing when the exact copy of an original text of books, articles, web pages or others is found without correctly citing the author; inappropriate paraphrasing; the lack of bibliographic citations where appropriate and/or duplication or repetition of information already presented in other documents by the same author. Finally, the journal has a license to detect plagiarism with the software: Plagiarism Checker, the same one that receives all the original articles as well as cases, reviews and others, to subsequently detect the percentage of plagiarism.

 

Consent

The author(s) give their consent for the submission, review and publication of the manuscript through the letter of authorization for publication and distribution, in addition to the author's letter declaration of originality available within the guidelines for authors.

 

Academic Rigor

Juris Studia as an academic journal assumes its obligation to act accordingly in case of suspicion of bad practices or inappropriate behavior. Likewise, all reasonable efforts will be made to ensure that the works submitted for evaluation are rigorous and ethically appropriate. Whenever it is known that any published work contains important inaccuracies, misleading or distorted statements, the author will be notified so that this can be corrected immediately; If any work whose content is fraudulent is detected, it will be removed as soon as it is known, immediately informing both the readers and the indexing systems.

 

Publication Ethics Policy

The ethical principles of the journal are adhered to the guidelines and recommendations of the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors given by the International Committee on Ethics in Scientific Publications (COPE); are available at https://publicationethics.org/, in this sense, the Scientific Editor, Editorial Director, the Editorial Committee and the Advisory Committee will promote good practices in research and may detect any irregularity or fault committed by the authors. collaborators; for which the following principles apply:

Originality
Manuscripts submitted to the Juris Studia journal must be original; Manuscripts that have been previously published or are in the process of being evaluated in other journals are not accepted. Within the writing process, the authors must take into account that if the information is extracted from an external source, the respective citation and reference must be included in accordance with the instructions to the authors. The journal accepts submissions with a plagiarism rate of no more than 25%.; If the manuscript has a plagiarism report with more than 25%, the authors will have the opportunity to reduce it and resubmit the work to the journal.

Copyright and permissions
Manuscripts published in and by Juris Studia are protected by copyright; these being of a reserved nature in accordance with the legal regulations on Bolivian and international copyrights; the authors agree to complete copyright transfer forms in favor of the journal; by reason of this, Juris Studia obtains the rights to use, reproduce, transmit, derive works, publish and distribute the contribution; the authors may not use or authorize the use of the contribution without the written consent of Juris Studia, except as permitted by Bolivian fair use law; however, after the initial publication, Juris Studia allows the republication of the published article in the journal as follows: a) Share with colleagues for educational use. b) Include portions, such as figures and tables, in book chapters or other educational articles written by the author. c) Include a copy, total or partial, in the author's thesis or dissertation. d) Include in collections of the author's educational writings. e) Provide copies to students in classes taught by the author that have no commercial ties (ie, those sponsored by academic institutions or learned societies). f) Deposit for display in the online repository of the author's academic institution six months after publication. Republishing Juris Studia articles must reference the initial publication and, if shared in digital formats, link original articles to the journal site to provide readers with access to any corrections, related correspondence, and digital features.

 

Cookie policy

Cookies

To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

How do we use cookies?

A number of our pages use cookies to remember:

  1. Your display preferences, such as contrast colour settings or font size
  2. If you have already replied to a survey pop-up that asks you if the content was helpful or not (so you won't be asked again)
  3. If you have agreed (or not) to our use of cookies on this site


Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended.

The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.

How to control cookies?
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

 

Archiving and digital preservation policy

Revista de Investigación Proyección Científica allows self-archiving of accepted and published manuscripts. Authors retain copyright ownership and may archive pre-published or post-published versions or publisher's pdf versions in personal or institutional repositories or libraries at any time without the express permission of the journal or publisher.

Authors of articles published in Revista de Investigación Proyección Científica have the right to deposit accepted or published versions of manuscripts in institutional repositories. Authors may make them publicly and immediately available upon citation as the site where they were originally published.

Revista de Investigación Proyección Científica participates in the Public Knowledge Project Private LOCKSS Network (PKP PLN) digital preservation that allows for long-term digital preservation should the journal go offline. The LOCKSS programme allows for decentralised and distributed preservation of long-term access to manuscripts. It also allows for the digital preservation of authentic versions of manuscripts.