About the Journal

Aims and scope: The mission of civilistica.com is to create an online repository of academic material of excellence, facilitating its promotion and benefiting the dialogue between researchers of national and foreign institutes on the subjects associated to its editorial line: the contemporary civil law, interpreted and applied according to the constitutional principles. For this purpose, the journal gathers articles, academic papers, opinions, jurisprudence commentaries, reviews, bibliographical indications and audiovisual material, in Portuguese or foreign languages. All of these selected to provide current and creative tools for the process of restructuration of the civil law around its greatest value: the guardianship of the human person.

Periodicity: The annual volume contains three issues, with a four-monthly periodicity.

Editorial line:  civilistica.com publishes predominantly articles of private law, comparative private law and legal hermeneutics applied to private law.

Open access: Access to the contents of civilistica.com is free and entirely unrestricted. No registration is required to access the full content of the journal, which is made available to the public at the very moment each issue is published. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts published by the journal, as well as use data and metadata of each text for indexing and other legally permitted purposes. For more information about the usage license, see the "License" section further down this page.

Content preservation: The content posted by civilistica.com is preserved through the PKP Preservation Network (PN).

Editorial flow: The call for papers for ||civilistica.com is permanently open; works can be submitted for analysis and possible publication at any time.

Publication policies: ||civilistica.com is not responsible for the opinions expressed by articles; the responsibility is attributed to authors.

In the act of submission the author must inform if there is any interest conflict in relationto the research. Possible financing related by any means to the work submitted to this publication must be informed.

The author is conscious that, should the article demand the approval of an ethics committee, the protocol of approval must be informed and the full opinion formulated by the committee must be attached.

Plagiarism of any kind will lead to the immediate disqualification of the article for publication, as well as other possible legal measures.

Copyright. Copyright to the work belongs to its author(s). Submission of an article to this journal implies, on the part of the author, the free transfer of the prerogative of first publication of their original work. For that reason, all works submitted for evaluation must be original, unprecedented and not under evaluation in other publications.

License. This publication is licensed under a Creative Commons License – Non-Commercial-Attibution-No-Derivations 4.0 International. That means anyone is free to share, copy and redistribute the contents of this website, by any means, provided they specify the source and author, respect the integrity of the contents (with no modifications) and make no commercial use of it.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Policy: This journal follows the ethics and malpractice guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). In the event that this journal’s editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct, or should anyone feel offended or have any rights violated by a paper submitted to this journal, immediate measures will be adopted, including (but not only) the temporary suspension of the publication until further clarification and the possible permanent exclusion of the publication. Any author is welcome to retract or correct their articles when needed, as well as to publish clarifications, retractions and apologies should they become necessary.