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About the journal

Basic information

 

Revista Direito GV publishes articles of law or interdisciplinary approach, which result from empirical and theoretical research in dialogue with the fields of research in law and development, law and society, and law and economics. Its mission is to disseminate research results that adopt a perspective of reflection on law “in context” and a concept of development that goes beyond the idea of economic growth, incorporating the promotion of fundamental freedoms and rights, the consolidation of democracy, the overcoming of the colonial past and inequalities, and the fight against various forms of oppression, such as race, gender and sexual orientation. The articles can address law both from the description, observation, analysis, diagnosis, criticism and proposal of solutions for the functioning of legal institutions and through doctrinal reflections open to the social context and attentive to the sociopolitical and economic disputes that occur through the grammar of law.

Articles must be unpublished (nationally or internationally) and original. By unpublished, we understand as articles not published in any other printed or digital medium in Portuguese or any other language. By original, we understand the texts that innovate within the field of research in which they are inserted. At the discretion of the Editorial Board, the journal may publish previously published articles of exceptional academic value.

Within its thematic scope, the journal also publishes original reviews of books published in the last two years and translations of texts by foreign authors whose diffusion is fundamental for developing Brazilian academic research.

Articles and reviews can be submitted in Portuguese, English, and Spanish. However, we encourage the submission of articles in English, regardless of the nationality of the authors. Translations will be published only in Portuguese.

Manuscripts submitted may not be under evaluation in another journal.

The journal is an online and open-access academic publication from the Fundação Getulio Vargas Sao Paulo Law School (FGV DIREITO SP) - online ISSN 2317-6172. It adopts the rolling publication system with annual periodicity.

Its abbreviated title is Rev. Direito GV, which should be used in bibliographies, footnotes, bibliographical references and strips.

For more information, please access Revista Direito GV’s Editorial Policy

 

 

Indexing sources

 
  • BDJur - Superior Tribunal de Justiça 
  • Biblioteca do Senado Federal
  •  CiteFactor
  • Crossref 
  •  Diadorim
  •  DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
  • EBSCOHOST
  • ESCI: Emerging Sources Citation Index
  •  EZB: Eletronic Journals Library
  •  HeinOnline Law Journal Library
  •  IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
  • Latindex: Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, El Caribe, España y Portugal
  • MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals
  •  Portal de Periódicos CAPES
  •  ProQuest Information and Learning
  • Red de Revistas Sui Iuris
  • Redib: Red iberoamericana de innovación y conocimiento científico
  •  Repositório FGV de Periódicos e Revistas
  • ROAD
  • Scopus
  •  Sherpa/Romeo
  •  Ulrich’s Periodical Directory
 

 

Intellectual property

 

Revista Direito GV owns the property rights to articles and reviews it publishes.

Revista Direito GV adopts the license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), except where expressed otherwise, being allowed copies and reproductions, entirely or partially, only if provided for non-commercial purposes and with identification of its source. The corresponding author is responsible for the consent of the other co-authors, if any, to the terms adopted by Revista Direito GV.

In the case of translations, the economic rights depend on an agreement signed between Revista Direito GV and the original holder of the rights.

 

 

Sponsor

   

 


Editorial Board

 

Editor

 
  • Catarina Helena Cortada Barbieri – Fundação Getúlio Vargas (Brazil)
 

 

Editorial board

 
  • Álberto do Amaral Jr. – Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)
  • Álvaro P. Pires – University of Ottawa (Canada)
  • Charles Frederick Sabel – Columbia University (USA)
  • Damian Chalmers – The London School of Economics and Political Science (USA)
  • Daniel Eduardo Bonilla Maldonado – Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia)
  • David Trubek – University of Wisconsin (USA)
  • Diego Eduardo López Medina – Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia)
  • Gregory Shaffer – University of California (USA)
  • Hans-Jörg Albrecht – Max-Plank Institute (Germany)
  • José Antonio Estévez Araujo – Universitat de Barcelona (Spain)
  • José Eduardo Campos de Oliveira Faria – Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)
  • José Engrácia Antunes – Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Portugal)
  • José María de Areilza Carvajal – Esade, Universidad Ramon Llull (Spain)
  • Josep Joan Moreso – Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)
  • Judith Hofmeister Martins-Costa – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
  • Keith S. Rosenn – University of Miami (USA)
  • Marcos Severino Nobre – Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil)
  • Maria Tereza Sadek – Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)
  • Martín Federico Böhmer – Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)
  • Miguel Poiares Maduro – European University Institute (Italy)
  • Miguel Reale Jr. – Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)
  • Raffaele De Giorgi – Università del Salento (Italy)
  • Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo – Universidad Metropolitana (Venezuela)
  • Soledad Villagra de Biedermann – Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la

     

Ad hoc Reviewers

Ad hoc reviewers in 2016
Ad hoc reviewers in 2017
Ad hoc reviewers in 2018
Ad hoc reviewers in 2019
Ad hoc reviewers in 2020
Ad hoc reviewers in 2021
Ad hoc reviewers in 2022

 

 


 

Instructions to authors

 

Scope and political

 

Revista Direito GV publishes articles of law or interdisciplinary approach, which result from empirical and theoretical research in dialogue with the fields of research in law and development, law and society, and law and economics. Its mission is to disseminate research results that adopt a perspective of reflection on law “in context” and a concept of development that goes beyond the idea of economic growth, incorporating the promotion of fundamental freedoms and rights, the consolidation of democracy, the overcoming of the colonial past and inequalities, and the fight against various forms of oppression, such as race, gender and sexual orientation. The articles can address law both from the description, observation, analysis, diagnosis, criticism and proposal of solutions for the functioning of legal institutions and through doctrinal reflections open to the social context and attentive to the sociopolitical and economic disputes that occur through the grammar of law.

The articles submitted to Revista Direito GV undergo two evaluation filters.

1 – Desk review

All articles undergo a prior assessment (desk review). carried out by the Editorial Board to verify compliance with the mandatory formal submission requirements provided in the section “Guidelines for authors”, including their uniqueness, the adequacy of the text to the thematic and methodological scope of the journal and its originality, indicating its potential for publication.

In this initial phase, it is also performed a similarity check through the anti-plagiarism iThenticate software. Articles that meet these requirements will proceed to the peer review phase.

2 – Blind peer review

The articles that go through the first filter –desk review– are sent to the second filter: blind peer review, carried out by at least two ad hoc evaluators. Reviewers can suggest five types of decisions (accept; accept as long as minor corrections are made –minor revisions–; accept as long as substantive corrections are made –major revisions–; reject and resubmit; and reject). To be eligible for publication, the article may not have received any “reject and resubmit” or “reject” evaluation.

Peer reviews should be guided exclusively by the objective of advancing knowledge within the field to which the manuscript belongs. Any suspicion of conflict of interest that may impair the objectivity and impartiality of the evaluation must be communicated to the editorial team.

Access the evaluation form in PortugueseEnglish and Spanish.

If the article is deposited on a preprints server or a partially public server, the peer evaluation system changes from double-blind to single-blind, where the reviewers will know the authorship of the article, but the authors will not know the identity of the reviewers.

3 - Other stages of evaluation

Once the opinions have been received, they are forwarded to the corresponding author of the article for his/her acknowledgment and, if applicable, incorporate the suggested modifications. In the latter case, the modified text should be sent to the journal within the stipulated period along with a reply letter (or cover letter) detailing the modifications made to the editor and the reviewers.

The corresponding author must follow the journal’s formatting and submission rules. Modifications made to the text should be made using the “Track Changes” tool in the Microsoft Word text editor.

The modified text will be evaluated again by the editor according to the changes made. The editor may refer it to the same evaluators of the previous stage or to others, if necessary, before the final decision of approval or rejection.

The final decision of approval or rejection depends, fundamentally, on three factors: (i) the article not having received any “rejection” or “rejection and resubmission” evaluation throughout the process, (ii) the individual quality of the text after the modifications made, if any, and (iii) the relative quality of the text in light of the set of articles in stock for publication at the time of the decision.

Once approved, the articles will be sent to the processes of copyediting, layout development and formal and orthographic review. They will be sent to the authors in case of doubts and for final validation before publication. In this validation, no modifications or will be allowed, except in exceptional cases. The editor may suggest changes and cuts in the texts to better adapt them to the standards of the journal.

The approved articles follow an order of publication that will respect, whenever possible, antiquity in submission and approval, as well as formal criteria applicable to the Qualis/Capes A1 journals –or criteria that may replace them– and the criteria suggested by SciELO.

Accepted and published articles that remain available on preprint servers should indicate the link of the version published in Revista Direito GV.

Reviews and translations will be evaluated and selected by the Editorial Board of the journal.

New submissions of articles that have received an editorial decision of “rejection” will not be accepted

 

 

Submission rules

 

Phase 1 – Preparation of the original documents required for submission

Before starting the submission, the corresponding author must prepare two indispensable documents for the desk review phase: (i) article and (ii) cover letter. You can optionally prepare (iii) additional documents for insertion in the ScholarOne system.

(i) Article

Articles must have a maximum of 10,000 words (including pre-textual and post-textual elements, notes, tables, graphs, bibliographical references, etc.

  • Text editor: Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx extension)
  • Paper: A4 format
  • Margins: left, right, top and bottom of 2.5 cm
  • Font: Times New Roman, main text size 12 and footnotes size 10
  • Paging: lower right corner
  • Paragraph: justified alignment; line spacing: 1.5
  • The article should be non-identifiable, including in the document properties.
  • The text of the article should be organized and divided as follows:
  • Sections: unnumbered introduction, development (which must be divided and numbered sequentially with Indo-Arabic numerals – 1, 2, 3, etc.), unnumbered conclusion, and references.
  • Citations and references: use the author-date method for citations (according to ABNT NBR-10520/2002 or any standard that comes to replace it) and bibliographical references (according to ABNT NBR-6023/2018 or the standard that comes to replace it):
  • Citations: the author-date method should be used (according to ABNT NBR-10520/2002 or any standard that comes to replace it), that is, the citations should come in the body of the text with the indication of the surname, year and publication page.
  • Example of direct citation: “A Lei Maria da Penha (LMP) é o principal instrumento legal para a proteção das mulheres em situação de violência doméstica e familiar” (CAMPOS, 2015, p. 393).
  • Example of paraphrase: “Dessa forma, a diversidade das situações de vida das mulheres, a heterogeneidade das perspectivas das redes (SANTOS, 2015) e a diversidade geográfica do Brasil não permitem uma conclusão generalizadora”.

Note: Articles from foreign authors who use other author-date citation and referencing styles can be accepted; however, if approved, these articles will be standardized according to the ABNT (Brazilian Association of Technical Standards) styles in the editing stages, and their authors should commit to reviewing their articles after this standardization.

Long citations (of 4 lines or more) should be presented in a highlighted paragraph with indentation (of 2 cm) and lower font size (10).

  • List of bibliographical references: should be presented in alphabetical order at the end of the text (according to ABNT NBR-6023/2018 or any standard that comes to replace it).
    • Example 1 (book): RIBEIRO, Djamila. O que é lugar de fala? Belo Horizonte: Letramento/Justificando, 2017.
    • Example 2 (article, with page number): MACHADO, Marta Rodriguez de Assis; SANTOS, Natália Neris da Silva; FERREIRA, Carolina Cutrupi. Legislação antirracista punitiva no Brasil: uma aproximação à aplicação do direito pelos Tribunais de Justiça brasileiros. Revista de Estudos Empíricos em Direito, São Paulo, v. 2, n. 1, p. 60-92, 2015.
    • Example 3 (article, with e-location and doi): GOMES, Juliana Cesario Alvim. Direitos sexuais e reprodutivos ou direitos sexuais e direitos reprodutivos? Dilemas e contradições nos marcos normativos nacionais e internacionais. Revista Direito GV, São Paulo, v. 17, n. 3, e2136, set./dez. 2021. https://doi.org/ 10.1590/2317-6172202136
    • Example 4 (internet website): ZALTHA, Edward (org.). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Winter 2016 Edition. Available on: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/discrimination/. Accessed on: 4 Apr., 2022.
  • Footnotes: should be explanatory and should not be used for the inclusion of bibliographic references. All references cited throughout the article must be included at the end, at the “References” section.
  • Explanatory notes should be reduced to the minimum required and presented in the footer of the pages.
  • Diagrams, graphs, figures, charts and tables: must have the title and source. The original files must be sent as attachments to the submission in the “original files” field.
  • Photographs, logos or other images: in case of the need to use photographs, logos or other images, the following will be necessary: (1) they have been taken/prepared by the author(s) of the article, (2) or the authors must have a written permission from the copyright holder(s) of the image for publication in the article; or (3) the photographs, logos or other images are available for reproduction with non-commercial use (for example, protected under the Creative Commons 3.0 license), provided that their respective source is properly cited.
  • Extension: the document may not exceed 10,000 words including pre- and post-textual elements, such as notes, charts, tables and bibliographic references.
  • Mandatory content of the document.

The first page of the article must contain:

  • Title and subtitle, if any, in Portuguese, English and Spanish with a maximum of twenty-five (25) words each.
  • Abstract in Portuguese, English and Spanish with a maximum of two hundred (200) words each. The abstract should explain the object (field of study) of the article, the research question, the objectives, the method, the results and the conclusion.
  • Five (5) keywords –in Portuguese, English and Spanish– for each language.
  • No identification: to allow anonymous peer review, the article must be completely unidentified, including in the properties of the document. Any information that may lead to the author’s recognition – such as his/her name or the name of the institution of origin, reference to previous research, study and research groups or previous articles and books – should come only in the cover letter. The non-characterization of authorship is the sole responsibility of the corresponding author and may lead to the rejection of the submission.

(ii) Cover Letter

  • In Portuguese, English and Spanish, information about the title and subtitle, if any (maximum 25 words), the abstract (maximum 200 words) and the five (5) keywords for each language.
  • Identification of all the author(s) with the completion of all the following items: (i) full name without abbreviations, (ii) title (iii), institution to which he/she is connected, (iv) link to the Lattes curriculum, (v) ORCID, (vi) mailing address, (vii) telephone and (viii) e-mail.
  • Information on funding or benefits received: the corresponding author is requested to report any funding or benefits received from public or private sources. If the work is the result of research funded by official funding agencies, it is necessary to specify the type and number of the corresponding bid/process, which must be included only in the cover letter and not in the body of the manuscript. If the text is accepted for publication, this information will be re-included as a note at the end of the article.
  • Information on possible conflicts of interest.
  • Acknowledgments: if the text is accepted for publication, acknowledgments will be re-included as a note at the end of the article.

Articles that do not meet all of the formal requirements listed above will be rejected immediately during the review in the desk review phase).

(iii) Additional files

The corresponding author must provide information on the alignment of the research and the compliance of the manuscript with Open Science practices by completing and attaching the Open Science Compliance Form as a supplementary file to the manuscript. The form will be shared with publishers and ad hoc reviewers.

When necessary, other attachments should be included in the submission, such as databases, documents containing tables, graphs and other figures in their original version, interview forms, approval of the research in the institution’s research ethics board, etc.

In line with Open Science practices, we ask that manuscripts using databases be deposited in open access data repositories, such as SciELO Data, explaining this information in the cover letter.

Database is considered as any material that is relevant to the replication of the research. For example:

  • elements of quantitative research, such as: code files (scripts, algorithms, etc.) and their dictionaries, variable details, survey questionnaire, data used for the elaboration/replication of tables and graphs contained in the survey, statistical tools, etc. In these cases, it is suggested that data be shared in an accessible format with at least one of the main statistical tools, such as R, Python, SPSS, Stata and Excel.
  • elements of qualitative research, such as: interview script, questionnaires (surveys), digitization of physical documents, access to digital documents, sources of documents, etc.

The data must be shared in data repositories at the time of submission (we recommend SciELO Data: https://data.scielo.org/dataverse/brrdgv

 

 

Submission of manuscripts

 

Articles and reviews submitted must be unpublished and cannot be under review in another journal. Authors can only submit one article at a time, either as main author or co-author

The texts can be written in Portuguese, English or Spanish. Submission of manuscripts in English is encouraged, regardless of the nationality of the authors.

Once the mandatory documents described above have been prepared, articles and reviews must be submitted through the ScholarOne Manuscripts online system, available at the following address: https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/rdgv-scielo. Submissions by email or any other means will not be accepted.

Submission will be carried out in six stages. Follow the system guidelines for completing each one. Fill in all available fields. Here are some points that deserve special attention:

  • In step 2the cover letter should be attached as a document entitled “title page”. The cover letter content must be manually included in the cover letter field in step 5 of the ScholarOne submission process. Therefore, the information in the cover letter should be sent in two ways: as a proper document inserted in step 2 entitled “title page” and by inserting the text in the “cover letter” field in step 5 of the submission process.
  • All authors must have ORCID. At the time of submission, the corresponding author will include his/her ORCID in the specific field on the ScholarOne. The ORCIDs of all the co-authors should be included in the cover letter field in step 5 of the ScholarOne submission process.
  • In step 4 (Authors & Institutions), the corresponding author should indicate the contributions of each co-author in ScholarOne according to the CrediT taxonomic system. For co-authored articles, the co-author who makes the submission will act as the corresponding author, that is, he/she will be responsible, for all purposes, before Revista Direito GV and third parties, for the information provided at the time of submission and in all subsequent steps until the publication of the final text, acting as a point of contact with the editorial team. It is his/her duty to keep the other co-authors informed about the progress of the evaluation. 

Submission of critical comments

Critical comments and rejoinders must contain a maximum of 6,000 words, including pre-textual and textual elements. They should contain the title and subtitle, if any, in Portuguese, in English and Spanish, with a maximum of twenty-five (25) words each. They should also include an abstract in Portuguese, English and Spanish with a maximum of two hundred (200) words each, and 5 keywords for each language – in Portuguese, English and Spanish.

The steps of preparation of the submission, the ScholarOne submission steps, the rules for formatting the document, citation and references, as well as the completion of the cover letter, are the same applicable to the articles.

Submission of reviews

Reviews must have a maximum of 2,000 words, including notes and bibliographical references. They must present a title in Portuguese, English and Spanish of a maximum of 25 words and 5 keywords in each of the three languages. At the beginning of the text, the review should also present the complete reference of the work reviewed in the ABNT standard. This information must also be included in the cover letter.

For the submission of reviews on the ScholarOne Manuscripts system, it is necessary to fill in the “Abstract” field in step 1, and this element is dispensed in the body of the submitted manuscript.

The steps of preparation of the submission, the ScholarOne submission steps, the rules for formatting the document, citation and references, as well as the completion of the cover letter, are the same applicable to the articles.

Submission of translations

Translations are not limited in length and, as a general rule, the stylistic and citation elements of the original text may be maintained. If the translation project is approved, the editorial production team of the journal may suggest adaptations. Extensive texts can be published at the discretion of the editor.

The cover letter must provide complete information on the original text, including the status of the translation or republication property rights. Please attach the original text for evaluation. If not possible, please indicate the link where it can be found.

The letter should also identify all translators with complete data and available information about the author of the original text (full name without abbreviations, title, institution to which he/she is or has been linked and e-mail, if any).

Include in the cover letter or as an additional document any other information useful to the process of acquiring translation rights, including information on contacts with the original copyright holder, copies of e-mail exchanges, etc.

The steps of preparation of the submission, the ScholarOne submission steps, and other rules of completion of the cover letter are the same applicable to the articles.

Question and information about submission

If you have any questions about the online submission, send an e-mail to the editorial team: revistadireitogv@fgv.br.

There are no fees on submission, evaluation or publication.

Revista Direito GV guides its procedures of management and evaluation of manuscripts according to: Código de Boas Práticas Científicas, provided by São Paulo Research Foundation (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo - FAPESP), the basic guidelines formulated by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimeto Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq) and by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), as well as the  Core Practices (COPE, 2017a) and the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE/DOAJ/OASPA/WAME, 2018).

We request special attention to the parameters indicated in the document Responsible Research Publication: International Standards for Authors (COPE, 2011). Articles involving research with humans or animals must comply with the ethical standards required by the Comissão Nacional de Ética em Pesquisa/Conselho Nacional de Saúde/Ministério da Saúde (CONEP/CNS/MS). Research involving human beings must comply with the norms of Resolution No. 466/2012 and Resolution No. 510/2016 of the Conselho Nacional de Saúde (National Health Council, CNS) – or any other norm that replaces them – or of an equivalent body in the country of origin of the research.

Regarding citations, in addition to the familiarity with the Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas (ABNT) rules adopted by the journal, we also suggest reading the document Guia de Citação de Dados de Pesquisa (SCIELO, 2018b).

Authors must inform the journal of any funding or benefits received from commercial or non-commercial sources, and declare no conflict of interest that compromises the presented work. This information must come in the specific fields of the online system and also on the cover page.

The opinions expressed and the integrity of the content of the articles are sole responsibility of their authors.

 

 


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