Journal Description
Historia et ius is an online, open access, International journal dedicated to medieval, modern and contemporary historical legal studies. Founded after the initiative of a group Italian legal historians, the journal is supported by an editorial board composed by European legal historians of high scientific profile.
It is divided into three sections: the first one – Topics and issues – hosts essays of general content on legal history made by well-established academics; the second – Studies – concerns articles which are admitted through a preventive evaluation based on a double blind peer review system; the third – Interventions – regards communications, research projects and book reviews.
The journal’s main purpose is to provide an agile and easy to use tool aimed at disseminating the results of legal-historical researches at the international level, as well as facilitating the exchange of ideas and methods.
Open Access Policy
Historia et ius provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
The Historia et ius issues are available online for free-without any charge to download or print each article. Readers of "Historia et ius" are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts provided the correct citation of them.
Copyright
Authors submitting a paper to Historia et ius automatically agree to confer a limited license to Historia et ius if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication. This license allows Historia et ius to publish a manuscript in a given issue, by any means, anywhere in the world.
Call for papers
Historia et Ius, International journal of medieval and modern legal history, invites interested scholars to send articles and texts for publication. Articles and texts for publication should be sent to the editorial board filling out this form.
The journal is divided into three sections:
1) Topics and issues. This section hosts essays of general content on legal history written by well-established academics.
2) Studies. This section exclusively publishes articles evaluated through a double blind peer review system. Each article will be anonymously assigned, for evaluation, to two specialists in the subject matter, who will provide their assessment for a course of action. The assessment can be: - positive (the text will be published) - positive with corrections (the text will be published if corrected) - negative (the text will not be published). The result of the evaluation of the reviewers will be communicated to the author within two months from the date of receipt of the text. In the event of disagreement between the two reviewers regarding the assessment of the text, the article will be given to a third reviewer. Annually the journal will show the names of specialists who carried out the assessment of texts published.
2) Interventions. This section concerns various material (e.g. communications, research projects, book reviews) not submitted to the blind peer review procedure. Texts will be published according to the approval of the editorial board.
Interested scholars shall send manuscripts specifying in which section they desire to publish in the Journal filling out this form and uploading the Word file. Texts may be written in Italian, French, English, Spanish and German. In drafting the article, the authors must follow the criteria listed here.
Publication ethics - Index
Historia et ius is an online, open access, International journal dedicated to medieval, modern and contemporary historical legal studies. Founded after the initiative of a group Italian legal historians, the journal is supported by an editorial board composed by European legal historians of high scientific profile.
It is divided into three sections: the first one – Topics and issues – hosts essays of general content on legal history made by well-established academics; the second – Studies – concerns articles which are admitted through a preventive evaluation based on a double blind peer review system; the third – Interventions – regards communications, research projects and book reviews.
The journal’s main purpose is to provide an agile and easy to use tool aimed at disseminating the results of legal-historical researches at the international level, as well as facilitating the exchange of ideas and methods.
Open Access Policy
Historia et ius provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
The Historia et ius issues are available online for free-without any charge to download or print each article. Readers of "Historia et ius" are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts provided the correct citation of them.
Copyright
Authors submitting a paper to Historia et ius automatically agree to confer a limited license to Historia et ius if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication. This license allows Historia et ius to publish a manuscript in a given issue, by any means, anywhere in the world.
Call for papers
Historia et Ius, International journal of medieval and modern legal history, invites interested scholars to send articles and texts for publication. Articles and texts for publication should be sent to the editorial board filling out this form.
The journal is divided into three sections:
1) Topics and issues. This section hosts essays of general content on legal history written by well-established academics.
2) Studies. This section exclusively publishes articles evaluated through a double blind peer review system. Each article will be anonymously assigned, for evaluation, to two specialists in the subject matter, who will provide their assessment for a course of action. The assessment can be: - positive (the text will be published) - positive with corrections (the text will be published if corrected) - negative (the text will not be published). The result of the evaluation of the reviewers will be communicated to the author within two months from the date of receipt of the text. In the event of disagreement between the two reviewers regarding the assessment of the text, the article will be given to a third reviewer. Annually the journal will show the names of specialists who carried out the assessment of texts published.
2) Interventions. This section concerns various material (e.g. communications, research projects, book reviews) not submitted to the blind peer review procedure. Texts will be published according to the approval of the editorial board.
Interested scholars shall send manuscripts specifying in which section they desire to publish in the Journal filling out this form and uploading the Word file. Texts may be written in Italian, French, English, Spanish and German. In drafting the article, the authors must follow the criteria listed here.
Publication ethics - Index