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The Journal

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International Journal on Evidential Legal Reasoning

Quaestio facti is an international journal devoted to the treatment of the problems raised by evidential legal reasoning in the application of law, including, of course, the judicial process, but also many administrative processes.

The journal

As does evidential legal reasoning, Quaestio facti aspires to position itself within the boundaries of various disciplines, such as procedural law, legal epistemology, the international law of human rights, forensic sciences, as well as between the cultural ambits of the Common Law and the Civil Law traditions.

What Quaestio facti is not: from the outset, it is important to emphasise that it is not a journal centred around the evidence law of one country or another. This is why we only publish original works that touch upon general problems related to legal evidential reasoning. These problems must exceed the scope of a mere discussion of interpretation issues or relevant judicial decisions regarding some evidence, statute or regulation or other.

The journal is published electronically and in Open Access. The journal is edited by the Catedra de Cultura Jurídica of Girona University and distributed by Marcial Pons, legal and social editions. Quaestio facti publishes biannually and only considers original works in Spanish, English, Italian and Portuguese, which are selected through a blind peer review process.

Sections

1
Section “Essays”, with unpublished and original articles.
2
The “Conjectures and Refutations” Section, presenting an article and 4 to 5 critical reactions to it.
3
The “Iuris Prudentia” Section examines judicial cases in which some aspect of evidential legal reasoning is discussed.
4
The “Science for Legal Proceedings” Section introduces new scientific developments relevant to legal fact-finding.

About

Publication Frequency

Quaestio facti started with an annual publication frequency, publishing the complete volume with the final layout in January of each year.
From 2023 onwards, it has been considered appropriate to increase the frequency of publication to twice a year. Thus, two issues per year will be published, the first one in January and the second one in June.
The first issue, published in January, includes five or six articles of the first section and the conjecture of the second one. Also, it includes the "Iuris prudentia" and the "Science for Legal Proceedings" sections. In the second issue, published in June, are included five or six general articles and the four or five refutations to the first issue's conjecture. 
However, all the texts that are favourably received, after the pertinent corrections and a provisional layout, will be published instantaneously on a provisional basis.

Open Access Policy

Quaestio facti is an open access journal, therefore all articles are available online and can be consulted free of charge. 
Following the Budapest Open Access Initiative, users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of the contents of the journal without legal or financial barriers, except for the author's right to be properly acknowledged and cited.
Access to the journal's contents does not require prior registration or payment of a fee.

Archiving

Quaestio facti uses LOCKSS system, which guarantees a permanent and secure archive of the published articles. In addition, LOCKSS allows the content of the journal to be stored and distributed among participating libraries.
The LOCKSS publisher manifest page is https://revistes.udg.edu/quaestio-facti/gateway/lockss
The content of the journal is also available in the institutional repository of the University of Girona, which can be accessed through the following link: https://dugi-doc.udg.edu/handle/10256/17743

Use of interoperability protocol

Quaestio facti. International journal on legal reasoning uses the OAI-PMH interoperability protocol, which facilitates the exchange of metadata and content over the Internet.
It is available at: https://revistes.udg.edu/quaestio-facti/oai

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