• Philosophy of The Latin American and Caribbean Journal of Legal Studies
• Who Can Submit?
• General Submission Rules
• Formatting Requirements
• Rights for Authors and The Latin American and Caribbean Journal of Legal Studies

The Latin American and Caribbean Journal of Legal Studies seeks to publish original and innovative research in economic analysis of Roman law and economic history. For more information, please see the Aims and Scope page.

Anyone may submit an original article to be considered for publication in The Latin American and Caribbean Journal of Legal Studies provided he or she owns the copyright to the work being submitted or is authorized by the copyright owner or owners to submit the article. Authors are the initial owners of the copyrights to their works (an exception in the non-academic world to this might exist if the authors have, as a condition of employment, agreed to transfer copyright to their employer).

Any original work in the fields of economic anaylsis of law, economic history, legal history, legal theory or Latin American or Caribbean law can be submitted (see also the Aims and Scope page for The Latin American and Caribbean Journal of Legal Studies). Submitted articles cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic). Please note: "publication" in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication. In addition, by submitting material to The Latin American and Caribbean Journal of Legal Studies, the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that he or she will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at The Latin American and Caribbean Journal of Legal Studies. If you have concerns about the submission terms for The Latin American and Caribbean Journal of Legal Studies, please contact the editors.

The Latin American and Caribbean Journal of Legal Studies has no general rules about the formatting of articles upon initial submission. There are, however, rules governing the formatting of the final submission. See Final Manuscript Preparation Guidelines for bepress journals. Although bepress can provide limited technical support, it is ultimately the responsibility of the author to produce an electronic version of the article as a high-quality PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) file, or a Microsoft Word or RTF file that bepress can convert to a PDF file.

It is understood that the current state of technology of Adobe's Portable Document Format ("PDF") is such that there are no, and can be no, guarantees that adocuments in PDF will work perfectly with all possible hardware and software configurations that readers may have.

Please see our Article Submission Agreement as stated during the submission process.