The Faculty of Law of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez invites contributors to submit their manuscripts to Latin American Legal Studies (LALS).

Article selection

LALS is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal.

Contributions must be sent in Word format (.doc or .docx) by email to lals@uai.cl, or through the online submission service available at the journal's website. The manuscripts will not exceed a total of 9.000 words, including footnotes, excluding bibliography. Longer articles will be exceptionally accepted. The manuscripts must comply with the editorial norms. 

The articles are reviewed by the Editorial Team, which will assess whether the article is pertinent to the journal, and its potential impact. This decision will be informed to the author within 1 or 2 weeks of the submission of the article.

If accepted, the article will be sent to two reviewers, who will assess the article's scientific quality. The final decision to accept or reject the article will belong to the Editorial Team, in coordination with the journal's Editorial Board. Typically, decisions are informed within 6 weeks after submission of the article. 

Once accepted, the article will be translated into English (if the manuscript is written in Spanish), or into Spanish (if the manuscript is written in English). The translation will be made by professional translators, fully funded by the journal.

Special Issues

Next Special Issues

Special Issue: “Critical Legal Theory and Social Justice in the Americas”.

Guest Editors: Hugo Rojas and Sheila Velez Martínez

The journal Latin American Legal Studies (LALS) and Latina and Latino Critical Legal Theory (LatCrit) are pleased to invite the academic community to submit original contributions for publication in a special issue that LALS will dedicate to the promotion of critical legal approaches that contribute to greater levels of social justice in the Americas.                                                                               

Contributions are welcome in any area of law as long as they have a comparative approach, whether at the macro or micro level. Contributions within the following themes are especially welcome: 1) Justice, Law, and Society; 2) Self-Determination and Women’s Rights; 3) Migration and Law; 4) Constitutional Law; 5) Rule of Law and Conflict Resolution, and 6) Human Rights and Transitional Justice.

Articles must be original and with a maximum length of 8,000 words (including footnotes and excluding bibliography). The texts may be written in Spanish or English, and must comply with the formal rules of the journal LALS (http://lals.uai.cl/index.php/rld/normas). Articles will be published in both English and Spanish. LALS will provide translation services free of charge to authors.

Articles should be sent in Word format (.doc or .docx) to the LALS General Editor Prof. Alberto Pino Emhart (alberto.pino@uai.cl) and to the Guest Editors Prof. Hugo Rojas (hurojas@uahurtado.cl) and Prof. Sheila Velez Martínez (siv7@pitt.edu). All articles will be double-blind refereed. The articles are first reviewed by the Editorial Team, which will assess whether the article is pertinent to the journal, and its potential impact. This decision will be informed to the author within one or two weeks of the submission of the article.

Selected articles will be published in the Special Issue of the journal, and will be freely available for download.

The deadline for the first draft of the papers is 30 May 2023. The final version of the text, with corrections and observations (if any), must be submitted by 30 October 2023. Both dates are non-extendable.