Ethical Rules

The Universidad de Concepción Law Review subscribes to the guidelines proposed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), in its Code of Conduct and best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (http://publicationethics.org/), which mainly establishes duties and responsibilities of editors, authors and evaluators, principles of ethical-academic integrity, transparency regarding funding sources, discretion and confidentiality of informants' data, freedom of expression. The writings selected for evaluation will be submitted to the Compilatio plagiarism detector. Works that do not meet the minimum originality standards will be rejected.

Sending a work to the Universidad de Concepción Law Review implies, first of all, that the person signing it declares to be its original author. Only those who have made substantial collaboration in it will be considered the author of a work, without prejudice to the fact that a note of gratitude may be included for the help provided by other people. Works containing more than three authors will not be accepted. Nor may changes be made to add or subtract any author during the process, unless it is justified that there was an obvious error, at the discretion of the Journal.

Furthermore, sending the work implies that its author declares that it has not been previously published nor is it in the process of being published in another publication, even if it is a longer or shorter version. It also implies that the author declares that he is not subjecting it to simultaneous evaluations in other journals, in any physical or digital media. Also, you must inform if your work has been exhibited in seminars or conferences of the specialty, and if there are minutes of said activities published in print or online.

Each author who submits their work to our Magazine then assumes an ethical commitment, necessary to provide transparency, probity, integrity and a reliable result to the editorial process of our publication.

Declaration of conflicts of interest. Authors, reviewers and editors must declare - by email to the journal's management - any possible conflict of interest that could call into question public confidence in the processes of review, selection and publication of the works of this Law Journal. A conflict of interest is understood to be the situation where a relationship (family, academic rivalry, financial or other) threatens the transparency and impartiality of evaluations and procedures.