Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
All submissions must meet the following requirements.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- Italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses), are emplyed and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
Thematic Section
A partition whereon the articles devoted to the monographic theme of each issue of the RDL are set forth.
Legal Mosaic
A section for articles covering a broad spectrum of legal matters.
Commented Case Law
Section exclusively geared towards the study of paradigmatic case law from the courts of Portuguese-speaking countries and regions, above all from the higher courts.
Digests
The RDL publishes in Portuguese and includes an abstract plus keywords in Portuguese and English. Each article is released alongside a digest in English.
Ex-Libris
Section for reviewing articles, books, and book chapters, preferably those authored by Portuguese-speaking scholars or covering matters of Portuguese-speaking law.
Legal Living
A quarter set apart for news of events and other scientific initiatives involving REDIL members.
Copyright Notice
The RDL is not responsible for the content of the articles it publishes. Every author is at full liberty to decide on their contents and the editorial team of the RDL is in no way bound by them. The fact that an article has been accepted for publication does not entail agreement with its content.
The editorial team shall not be held liable for any violation of intellectual property rights on the part of the author or for any unlawful behaviour connected with the respective article.
We welcome and encourage all authors to deposit and distribute the material they have published in the RDL across every platform and by all means at their disposal and which they deem appropriate.
Works published in the RDL have not been previously published and, while copyright rests with the author(s) of each published work, we request that all subsequent publications of the work expressly refer to the fact that the work was first published in the RDL.
Although authors are acknowledged to have unfettered freedom of creation and expression, they are expected to act ethically, in line with the principles espoused by the RDL, substantially consistent with the best practice guidance from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Privacy Statement
Pursuant to the applicable legislation, the RDL adopts and upholds all the appropriate technical and clerical measures to ensure the protection of the personal data of its users and the respect for their rights.
