About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Prudentia Iuris is a biannual Journal of the School of Law of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina “Santa María de los Buenos Aires”, which is aimed at developing a framework of legal thinking consistent with the basic principles of justice and natural order, illuminated by faith (Prudentia Iuris, no. 1, August 1980, p. 3).

The Journal covers the following fields: philosophy of law (natural law, legal theory, legal principles and concepts); public law (constitutional, administrative, labor and employment, social security), private law (civil and business law); history of law; canon law; comparative law.
Its suscribers include professors, researchers, legislators, judges, lawyers and students of legal science as well as university libraries, research centers and other public agencies. The journal maintains exchanges with approximately 350 national and foreign publications.
In the last pages we include the Publication Standards for authors with the evalu¬ation system used for the selection of the articles that are included for publishing (peer-review system).

The authors of published articles also transfer their rights to the publisher, in a non-exclusive basis, to incorporate its digital version to the institutional repository of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina as well as other relevant databases.

Prudentia Iuris is included in the database ERIH Plus, Fuente Académica Premier (EBSCO), Catálogo Latindex, Dialnet, CLASE, Google Scholar, and REBIUN. All content can also be found in the Digital Library of the University and in the Open Journal System (OJS) of the University (http://erevistas.uca.edu.ar/index.php/PRUDENTIA).

For subscriptions, swaps, paper submissions and correspondence: 
Revista Prudentia Iuris, Facultad de Derecho, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, Avda. Alicia Moreau de Justo 1400, CP 1107, Buenos Aires, Argentina, prudentia_iuris@uca.edu.ar, http://www.uca.edu.ar/index.php/site/index/es/uca/facultad-derecho/publicaciones/prudentia-iuris/.

Peer Review Process

1. Prudentia Iuris, will acknowledge receipt of all originals. The originals will go through an initial evaluation carried out by the Editorial Board, to discern originality, relevance and scientific interest and decide whether or not to accept them for publication. This journal reserves the possibility of rejecting works in advance, providing the respective reasons. In case of disagreement with the decision, the eventual request for reconsideration will be submitted to the Editorial Committee.
2. Peer review process will only initiate with works that comply with the submissions format.  Therefore authors will be responsible for the adaptation of the original. The Magazine does not charge any fees for the evaluation process of papers for publication.
3. The originals sent to Prudentia Iuris for the sections that require peer review will be evaluated by up to two specialists from outside the editorial organization of the journal and the Faculty of Law of the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, appointed by the Directorate of the Journal. These originals will be submitted to arbitration according to the “double-blind” system to preserve the anonymity of both the authors and the evaluators. The Editorial Board will ensure the anonymity of the article by removing the names or references to the author from the text and file.
4. The requested reviewers, after accepting the evaluation, must evaluate the works according to the publication format, according to the corresponding form and keep confidentiality regarding everything related to their intervention as evaluators.
5. The evaluation will be made in a term from its acceptance in a maximum of 30 days. As a present for their collaboration, the evaluator will receive a copy of the issue in which the reviewer intervened and a certificate will be issued for the evaluation.
6. The evaluation review must indicate: Approved - Approved with optional changes - Approved with mandatory changes, to be verified by the Editorial Board - Approved with mandatory changes, to be verified by the referee - Rejected. The review will be communicated to the author, guaranteeing the anonymity of the evaluator. In the case of an approved text subject to change, the author will have 15 days to send the new version. For his part, if applicable, the evaluator must verify the corrections within 15 days.
7. In case of controversy in the arbitration process, the issue will be resolved by the Editorial Committee of the Magazine.
8. In all cases, the date of receipt of the work and the date of its acceptance will be published, either by the academic evaluator, or by the Editorial Board, as appropriate.

Publication Frequency

Prudentia Iuris is a biannual publication. The numbers are published in the first week of June and December of each year.

Indexing

Prudentia Iuris is included in the Scopus, DOAJ, REDIB, ERIH Plus database, Premier Academic Source (EBSCO), Latindex Catalog 2.0, Dialnet, CLASS, Google Scholar and REBIUN. All the contents can also be found in the Digital Library of the University

Plagiarism Detection Policy

The plagiarism control procedure of Prudentia Iuris involves the following stages:

• The requirement of originality of the works presented is manifest in the instructions given to the authors.
• The works send to Prudentia Iuris have to been unpublished works, this is an exclusive requirement of acceptance of originals.
• Authors are also required to explicitly mention all the sources used in citations, in accordance with the rules of the journal.
• Once received, the works go through simultaneous control with the following anti-plagiarism software tools: Plagium, Plagiarism Checker and Plagiarism.
•  In case of detecting any trace of plagiarism or autoplagium, the articles will be rejected and the author will be notified.

The publication of work that infringes on intellectual property rights is the sole responsibility of the authors, including any conflicts that may occur regarding infringement of copyright. This includes, most importantly, conflicts related to the commission of plagiarism and/or scientific fraud.

Plagiarisn is understood to include:

• Presenting the work of others as your own.
• Adopting words or ideas from other authors without due recognition.
• Not using quotation marks or another distinctive format to distinguish literal quotations.
• Giving incorrect information about the true source of a citation.
• The paraphrasing of a source without mentioning the source.
• Excessive paraphrasing, even if the source is mentioned.

Practices constituting scientific fraud are as follows:

• Fabrication, falsification or omission of data and plagiarism.
• Duplicate publication.
• Conflicts of authorship.

Code of conduct and good practices

Prudentia Iuris journal adheres to the Code of Conduct and Good Practices established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). In accordance with this Code, publishers are responsible for all content published in their journal and, therefore, undertake to:

• Strive to meet the needs of its readers and authors.
•  Seek continuous improvement of the magazine.
• Have processes to ensure the quality of the material they publish.
• Defend freedom of expression.
• Maintain the academic integrity of the published content.
• Prevent commercial issues from compromising intellectual and ethical standards.
• Post corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when necessary.

Interoperability protocol

This journal uses the OAI-PMH protocol for the collection of metadata.
http://erevistas.uca.edu.ar/index.php/PRUDENTIA/oai

Journal History

Prudentia Iuris was born in August 1980 by the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina ‘Santa María de los Buenos Aires’. In the presentation of the first number, the then Dean of the Faculty, Dr. Santiago de Estrada, wrote: "Prudentia Iuris will be the expressive periodic organ of the Law School of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina" Santa María de los Buenos Aires'. It will be, not to account for what may happen between the cloisters and the corridors of the School, or for the notoriety and promotion of those who teach, study or work in it, but to bear witness to what the School itself has of the most essential and profound, of what constitutes its raison d'être as a research and teaching institute: the elaboration of a coherent legal thought with the fundamental principles of justice and the natural order, illuminated by the Faith ”.

 In order to explain the title chosen for the new magazine and pay tribute to Dr. Tomás D. Casares, an excerpt from the book The Justice and Law of the jurist was published in that initial number (Ed. CCC, 2nd ed. , 1945, pp. 235/242) wich said: “the legislative and judicial functions are placed in an intermediate point that must communicate at the same time with the eminence of the principles and with all the sinuosities of the concrete. The consideration of some aspects of them can conclude by showing the way of inherent principles in the concrete, the vital relationship of the absolute with the contingent in the legal reality that is positive law. The analysis of the virtue of prudence that should govern the legislative and judicial tasks leads to the intimacy of this matter ... ”(Prudentia Iuris, no. 1, 1980, p. 5). Since then, the Journal has sought to be an academic field of study and dialogue around what is justly prudently discerned, whether in the depths of iusfilosofía, as well as in the more concrete ins and outs of the different branches of positive law.

 The following professors have been Directors of the Journal, Santiago de Estrada (1980–1985), Alfredo Di Pietro (1985–1997), Horacio Granero (1997–1999), Roberto Punte (2000-2004), Gabriel Limodio (2005-2006 and in 2009 as Dean of the Faculty), Carlos Sanz (2007-2008) and Jorge Nicolás Lafferriere (2010-present).

 As Dr. de Estrada stated in the presentation of the first issue, “the reason for being of 'Prudentia luris' is almost confused with the reason for being of our Law School [today we would say Faculty], as an institute that is a University whose primary function is precisely to promote the integration of knowledge within a total and coherent Christian worldview. And this task that we must carry out in fulfillment of the mandate that the Church has entrusted to us will undoubtedly result in the good of the Republic. ” This spirit continues to encourage the Magazine today, trusting that God in his Providence allows it to continue being faithful to its mission and to bear the fruits that are needed today.