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III - Requirements for Article Admission

a) Topics: The subject of the article must be related to the research fields being done by the Post-Graduate Law Program. They are:

1. DOGMATIC PRINCIPLES OF LAW

This research field focuses on a cross-sectional view of law (Civil, Consumer, Commercial, Corporate, Competition, International, Civil Procedural Law, Constitutional, Administrative, Tax, Labor and Penal Law) and searches for an intermediate field between legal dogmatic and zetetic, studying the law through critical analysis with the aim of proposing dogmatic models. Achieving these objectives requires in depth research from an analytical and problematic point of view, especially through the analysis of paradigmatic cases, always aiming to reinsert dogmatic categories into the constitutional system while systematically interpreting it (both its general aspects and more specific details).

This research has a large scope, and includes emphasis on Private Law (Civil and Commercial), Public Law (Constitutional, Administrative, Tax), Procedural, Competition/Consumer, and Labor Law.

2. THEORETICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL FUNDAMENTALS OF LAW

This research field aims at the reflection on the fundamentals of law and legal knowledge, with a focus on investigating the possibilities of the legal experience. For this, the fundamental concepts of law (law, rule, order, etc.) are examined and a discussion of the fundamental topics of law as explained by the great contemporary authors of law theories is proposed. This will require researchers to question the assumptions of knowledge and action, and therefore to question the human experience and the conditions for theoretical and practical activities. 

3. FUNDAMENTALS OF LEGAL INTEGRATION

This research field focuses on the perspectives of integration, examining the legal institutionalization of integration devices and organizations; the new private international law, the defense and promotion of rights in integrated spaces; the regulation of industrial policies; protecting the consumer; technology transfers; provision of services; the operations of financial institutions; social rights, as well as the national and international legal obstacles to the integration process, including also a sociological component, which is essential to comprehending the legal experience.

b) Original and Unpublished: The articles must be original and unpublished in Brazil (neither physically nor electronically published).

c) Languages: The articles must be written in Portuguese (Brazilian or European), German, Spanish, French, English, or Italian.

Foreign authors submitting articles in languages other than Portuguese are not required to have a title, summary or keywords in Portuguese if they are not able to write them.

d) Pages: The maximum number of pages in the article is approximately 25 (twenty five).

e) Text standards: The article must follow the norms established by the Brazilian Association of Technical Norms (ABNT). Due to the difficulty of foreign authors to access such norms, submissions must comply, at least, with the following standards

Font size 12, font size for citations and footnotes should be size 10, 1.5 spacing, no spaces between paragraphs, upper and left margin should be 3.0 cm, lower and right should be 2.0 cm and page numbers should be in upper right hand corner.

f) Required elements: elements are listed in the order suggested for the article.

1. Title in the original language.
2. Abstract in the original language (and in english). From 100 to 250 words.
3. Keywords: title "Keywords:" followed by the keywords.
4. Development: text of the article. Preferably with numbered section, an introduction, and conclusion.
5. Bibliographic references: presented at the end of the article in its own section.