About the Journal

ISSN:2835-687X

Open and Free Access Policy 

The Journal grants open access to all its content. All articles published by the Journal are available globally with open access and licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. This implies that:

  1. All our readers have immediate, free, and unlimited access to the full text of the published articles and to all the content of the Journal. 
  2. All our readers can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, track them for indexing, transfer them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, as long as they are properly cited and the respective credits are published in accordance with the terms of the license.
  3. The Journal does not charge fees for the submission of manuscripts or for publication, readings, or printing of the published material.
  4. The Journal does not require registration to read the published content.
  5. The Journal does not establish an embargo period on access to the published writings.

Copyright Policie
The authors retain unrestricted rights regarding authorship and grant the Journal the right of first publication, with the work registered under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. license. This license allows third parties to use the published work as long as they credit the authorship and acknowledge the first publication in this Journal.
Authors may enter into separate, additional, non-exclusive agreements for the distribution of the published version of the article in this Journal (for example, by including it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book), provided that they clearly indicate that the work was first published in this Journal.

Purposes and aims of the Journal

IusGénero América Latina (IGAL) aims at publishing original contributions in Spanish, English and Portuguese that: 1) contribute to our knowledge of the way in which law operates to reproduce and subvert the oppression of women and the exclusion of sexual diversity; 2) illuminate through theoretical, empirical or doctrinal interventions the way in which law shapes and deconstructs gender and sexuality; 3) reflect on the role of education, and legal education in particular, in reproducing hierarchies based on gender and sexuality. The Journal is specially interested in studies that incorporate intersectional and distributional analysis. 

IGAL is a biannual academic and scientific publication, of open access through its web page; it is funded by Red ALAS (Latin American Network of Feminist Law Professors) and the Law School at the Inter American University of Puerto Rico. 

Red ALAS is a network of law professors teaching in Latin American universities. It was created in 2004 to promote the reform of legal education in the region by supporting legal research on gender and sexuality issues and the inclusion of gender and sexuality in the curriculum and teaching methodologies (www.redalas.net). 

The Law School at the Inter American University of Puerto Rico was established in 1961. It has been credited by the American Bar Association. Its Women, Gender and the Law Institute, created in 2013, leads research on gender and the law in the Caribbean (http://www.derecho.inter.edu/nuestra-facultad/proyectos-institucionales/intermujeres/).

Audience

The Journal is directed to legal scholars and students, as well as academics and students in other disciplines, interested in gender and sexuality. It seeks to intervene mostly, but not exclusively, in debates in Latin America and the Caribbean. 

Journal Sections

  1. Thematic: includes original scientific papers on gender, sexuality and the law; law and feminism; legal education and gender; legal education and sexuality; and intersectional approaches to the law. 
  2. Reviews: the Journal will publish solicited reviews of recent gender, sexuality and the law publications. The Chief editors will choose the publications to be reviewed and ask re-known scholars in the field to contribute them. 
  3. Special numbers: on occasion, the Chief editors may invite re-known academics to curate a collection of original contributions on a given topic.