Abstract

MENESES REYES, Rodrigo  and  GARZA ONOFRE, Juan Jesús. Tell me where you publish and i'll tell you?: time, form and selection in Latin American legal magazines. Bol. Mex. Der. Comp. [online]. 2022, vol.55, n.163, e17492.  Epub June 15, 2023. ISSN 2448-4873.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iij.24484873e.2022.163.17492.

The publication of legal journals is a widespread and bicentennial practice in Latin America. However, we know extraordinarily little about the editorial policies that legal journals have adopted in the region. There is no clear information on the type of procedures, criteria, and decisions that legal scholars should expect to publish their works. After reflecting on the main discussions on the subject, this work advances the discussion by presenting systematized information on little more than seven hundred legal journals that are published periodically in the region, as well as the places and years in which they were founded. The data is used to describe the formats and times in which these publications are made available to the public, as well as explain the structure and procedure followed by these publications is explained to determine what is published and what is not. In this way we try to offer a statistical-descriptive representation of the main characteristics of the formats, criteria, procedures, and public and explicit practices that give adjective and material support to legal journals in Latin America.

Keywords : legal education; sociology of law; legal journals.