Italian Review of Legal History

Aims & Scope

The journal online Italian Review of Legal History aims to be a tool for intensifying the scientific debate at an international level on the major themes of Italian, European, and world legal history. The choice to publish articles in both the mother tongue and preferably in English stems from the desire to contribute to the circulation of historical-legal studies in a dialogue between researchers from different countries. A code of conduct and a peer review system consistent with best practices have been adopted, according to criteria of relevance of the research issues, originality of the scientific contribution, innovativeness in the choice of research topics, and methodological rigor. The chronological scope extends from the early Middle Ages to the contemporary period, and the evolution of law, general and/or particular, is analyzed in all its articulations, with attention to the intrinsic historicity of law and its contextualization with regard to public powers, culture, society, and economy. Continuity and discontinuity are the essential characteristics of legal history. In this phase of profound transformations and search for new legal paths for a more just society, the comparison between scholars of positive law and historical law can offer a key to interpreting the present and a starting point for reconstructing rules and principles. Continuous dialogue with all historical disciplines is also fundamental within the framework of the circulation of knowledge and the need to create a network between various specialist contributions, characterized by methodologies, languages, and sources that are at least partly different. In the current historical moment, full of challenges for all those who experience University and Research as part of their civic commitment, the journal serves as a place for diachronic reflection on legal and institutional dynamics. IRLH will be open to discussion on themes of legal experience suggested by the scientific committee or by Italian and foreign colleagues, to be analyzed, from a historical perspective and in comparison with positive jurists, through contributions from individual scholars, interviews with specialists, or in the form of a forum.

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