Legal opinion

GUIDELINES FOR THE PUBLICATION OF LEGAL OPINIONS and/or AMICUS CURIAE

They correspond to an investigation on a specific topic, either at the request of an interested party (Legal Opinion), or with the aim of publicizing the position of certain interested parties on questions of law involved in a specific case (Amicus Curiae). Authors must attach the written consent of who commissioned the report. Revista de Derecho Aplicado LLM UC reserves the right to edit parts or all of the reports, with the author's consent. In the same way, the publication may directly request the authors to summarize their writings.

Extension: between 3,000 and 15,000 words. 

PARTS AND ORDER OF THE ARTICLE

All articles must be composed of five parts, presented in the following order:

  1. Identification of the article
  2. Abstract
  3. Text and Notes
  4. Bibliography
  5. Author Profile and CV

 

  1. IDENTIFICATION OF THE ARTICLE
  2. Title
  3. Five keywords
  4. Name and surname of the author
  5. Institutional affiliation of the author (if any)
  6. City and country of the institution to which the author is affiliated
  7. Institutional email of the author

 

IMPORTANT:

-If an article is written by more than one person, each author must fill in the required fields c, d, e, and f.

-The authors must indicate if the work they present is financed by a research fund.

 

  1. SUMMARY / ABSTRACT

All articles must have an abstract of 200 words maximum.

 

  1. TEXT, NOTES, AND CITATIONS

3.1 Text

The length of the articles will be 15,000 words (maximum). Articles must be presented in Word format. The font to be used will be Times New Roman (size 12), with 1,5 spacing.

 

3.2 Notes

Authors may include short footnotes. The calls to notes should follow the correlative numbering with Arabic numerals in superscript.

 

3.3 Citations

The LLM UC Practical Law Journal follows the rules set forth in the Chicago Manual of Style (footnote and bibliography system).

The authors are requested to review in detail the manual, a summary of which is available at http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html

 

  1. BIBLIOGRAPHY

Authors should include, below the text, a list of all the sources to which they refer in their manuscript. This list should follow the guidelines set forth in the Chicago Manual of Style (footnote and bibliography system).

 

  1. AUTHOR'S PROFILE

The authors should send a brief profile. The maximum length is 100 words. The profile should include:

- Academic degrees and professional degrees (indicating universities).

- Academic category (if applicable).

- Latest relevant publications (for journals: title of the article, name of the journal, number / volume, year, for books: title, publisher and year).

- Scope of professional practice.

Additionally, all authors must include their CV.