Submissions

For the time being, manuscripts should only be sent by email to the following address: revistaestudios@deusto.es

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

The submission has not been previously published in any form, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The first page should include the title, author`s name, academic affiliation or profession, the number of ORCID, postal address, e-mail, and a telephone number. The second page should include two abstracts, in Spanish and in English, of about 120 words each, and a list of keywords (3 to 5 words), in both Spanish and English. Also, a title in English should be included (if the paper is written in Spanish) and in Spanish (if the paper is written in English). The total length of the paper should not exceed 30 pages (10,000 to 12,000 words).
The main text is preceded by a brief summary of the different sections of the structure of the manuscript, in Spanish or English depending on the language of the paper. The paper should include full bibliographic references on the last page.
The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
The text complies with the bibliographical and style requirements of the Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS), author-date system, with abbreviated references in the text and a complete list of bibliographical references at the end of the paper.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
Every effort has been made to ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review.

Author Guidelines

^{Last update: 17/06/2026}

Download PDF

1. General information

Estudios de Deusto. Revista de Derecho Público is a biannual journal, published in June and December, which accepts papers in Spanish or English resulting from original research in the different fields of Public Law.

Submissions must present a clearly identifiable scientific contribution and must not be limited to a merely informative, descriptive or non-specialised presentation. To this end, and without prejudice to the peer-review process, submissions must meet at least one of the following criteria: they must make a significant theoretical contribution to the field of Public Law, make a significant theoretical contribution to other areas of legal scholarship, apply a specific hypothesis to one or more concrete cases, offer new empirical evidence on a matter of interest, provide a significant and critical review of the literature on the subject, or constitute a work of substantial practical relevance for legal practitioners.

Papers analysing a specific legal system must provide sufficient legal, institutional, doctrinal and case-law context to allow their scientific relevance to be assessed. As a general rule, they must include a comparative perspective that is not limited to a mere juxtaposition or description of rules, case law or institutions, but which helps to contextualise the subject matter and to formulate a recognisable scientific contribution to Public Law.

The journal accepts submissions for publication in its regular sections: Studies, Ibero-American Law and Case Law, as well as in any thematic sections that may be established. From time to time, the Journal may announce the preparation of a thematic section on issues of special interest and legal relevance, in order to allow interested authors to submit papers on that topic. The Journal also welcomes reasoned suggestions for the organisation of future thematic sections.

The Journal does not charge authors any fee for the submission, evaluation or subsequent publication of articles.

In addition to articles resulting from original research, the journal publishes reviews of scientific books or publications. It does not accept unsolicited reviews. However, it welcomes suggestions of books for review.

2. Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts must be unpublished, written in Spanish or English, and submitted in Microsoft Word or in a compatible format, such as OpenOffice, RTF or WordPerfect. They must be sent electronically to the following address: revistaestudios@deusto.es

Authors may submit their manuscripts at any time, with no fixed deadlines for particular issues. This rule is without prejudice to any specific deadlines that may be established for the submission of contributions intended for thematic sections.

3. Format

The first page must include the title, the author’s name, academic or professional affiliation, ORCID number, postal and email addresses, and contact telephone number. The second page must include two abstracts, in Spanish and English, of approximately 120 words each, and the keywords of the paper, between 3 and 5 words, both in Spanish and in English. A proposed title in English must also be included if the paper is submitted in Spanish.

The total length of the manuscript must not exceed 30 pages, approximately 10,000 to 12,000 words.

The text of the paper must be preceded by a brief table of contents listing the different sections into which the paper is structured, in Spanish or English depending on the language in which the paper is written. In addition, the paper must include, on the final page, a complete list of the bibliographical references used.

Paragraphs must be single-spaced, justified and with the first line indented by one tab. The font and size must be Times New Roman 12. Footnotes must be in Times New Roman 10. The title of the article must be in Times New Roman 14, uppercase, bold and centred. Section headings must follow this format: first-level heading: 1. Times New Roman 12, uppercase and bold. Second-level heading: 1.1. Times New Roman 12, lowercase and bold.

Third-level heading: 1.1.1. Times New Roman 12, lowercase and italics. Fourth-level heading: 1.1.1.1. Times New Roman 12, lowercase. Further levels of headings, where necessary, must be in Times New Roman 12, lowercase, and preceded first by an uppercase letter followed by a closing parenthesis, and then by a lowercase letter followed by a closing parenthesis.

4. Editorial rules

Bibliographical citations and references to other documentary sources must follow the Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS), exclusively using the author-date system: abbreviated references in the text and a complete list of bibliographical references at the end of the paper. Manuscripts that substantially use another citation system will not be accepted, without prejudice to the references to legal, case-law or documentary sources required by the subject matter.

To facilitate the preparation of manuscripts, the Journal provides authors with an indicative template for the submission of originals.

5. Languages

Authors are responsible for using appropriate English or Spanish and may make use of professional language services, preferably before submitting the manuscript.

6. Submission

Manuscripts must be sent exclusively to the following email address: revistaestudios@deusto.es. Authors will receive an acknowledgement of receipt from the Editorial Board within a maximum period of 7 days, informing them either that the manuscript has been accepted for subsequent peer review or that it has been rejected for failing to comply with the stated requirements concerning format, languages, approach, scientific contribution or, where appropriate, the comparative contextualisation of the work.

If the rejection is based on matters of format, the defects may be corrected and the manuscript may therefore be accepted for the corresponding peer-review process. However, if the rejection is due to the fact that the work is written neither in English nor in Spanish, the languages accepted by the Journal for publication, or if it is due to the fact that the work does not address matters of Public Law, does not present a sufficient scientific contribution or does not fit the Journal’s approach, the manuscript will be rejected without being sent for evaluation.

7. Evaluation process

Estudios de Deusto. Revista de Derecho Público uses a double-blind peer-review system, so that the identity of both the reviewer and the author must remain unknown during the evaluation process. Accordingly, all necessary measures will be taken to prevent the identity of reviewers and authors from being disclosed.

It is the Journal’s aim that authors should be informed of the non-acceptance of a manuscript not sent for peer review within 7 days of receipt of the manuscript. Where manuscripts are accepted for evaluation, the process may take between 2 and 3 months.

Copyright and Open Access

^{Last update: 08/02/2022}

The authors, by submitting their manuscripts to the Estudios Deusto. Revista de Derecho Público, accept the conditions listed below on copyright and undertake to comply with them.

Authorship: The author must be the sole creator of the work or legally acting on behalf of and with the full agreement of all the authors.
Copyright, liability and Ethical Guidelines:
1. Authors warrant that their manuscript is original; has not been previously copyrighted or published in any form; is not under consideration for publication elsewhere; its submission and publication do not violate the Ethical Guidelines of Estudios Deusto. Revista de Derecho Público and any codes (of conduct), laws or any rights of any third party; and no publication payment by the Publisher (University of Deusto) is required.
2. Authors grant to the Publisher the worldwide, sub-licensable, and royalty-free right to exploit the manuscript in all forms and media of expression, now known or developed in the future, for educational and scholarly purposes.
3. Authors retain the right to present, display, distribute, develop, and republish their manuscript to progress their scientific career provided the original publication source (Estudios Deusto. Revista de Derecho Público) is properly acknowledged and in a way that does not suggest the Publisher endorses them or their use of the work.
4. Authors warrant that no permissions or licences of any kind have been granted or will be granted that might infringe the rights granted to the Publisher.
5. Authors are solely liable for the consequences that may arise from third parties’ complaints about the submitted manuscript and its publication in Estudios de Deusto. Revista de Derecho Público.
Users: Estudios de Deusto. Revista de Derecho Público is an Open Access publication. Its content is free for full and immediate access, reading, search, download, distribution and reuse in any medium or format only for non-commercial purposes and in compliance with any applicable copyright legislation, without prior permission from the Publisher or the author(s). In any case, proper acknowledgement of the original publication source must be made and any changes to the original work must be indicated clearly and in a manner that does not suggest the author’s and or Publisher’s endorsement whatsoever. Any other use of its content in any medium or format, now known or developed in the future, requires prior written permission of the copyright holder.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses uploaded to this website will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this Journal and will not be made available for any other purpose, or to any other party.

In addition, the University of Deusto provides adequate support and maintenance to the Journal's website, paying special attention to security aspects that help protect users against viruses and malware.

For all of the above, the guidelines regarding privacy and security policies established by the University of Deusto (https://www.deusto.es/es/inicio/privacidad) will be followed.