Universitatea "Petre Andrei" din Iasi

INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS  

General instructions: The articles must be written both in English and Romanian for the Romanian contributors. All articles must contain an abstract which needs to comply with the following requests: it must sum up concisely the content of the article; it must be written in  English; it must not exceed 15-20 lines. The abstract must be followed by 5-10 English key words.

Content instructions: The article must be dense, well structured, and to represent a personal contribution of the author in the approached field, through the rejection or admission of previous expert opinions; it must contain, when the case needed, proposals of law bills; it must contain a set of conclusions and it must not exceed 15 pages.

Drafting Conditions:

The title: Garamond, 14, bold, centered capital letters.
Authors / Co-authors:
Name: Garamond, 12, italic, bold, on the right side at double line spacing from the title;
First Name: Garamond, 12, italic, bold;
After the name, an asterisk symbol with a footnote containing the author’s identification data: the academic degree, the academic title; institution
Abstracts and key words:
They must be written with Garamond, 11, italic, justified, double line spacing by the author’s name.
The article:
It must be written at single space line by the key words with Garamond, 12, justified, single space. When titles and subtitles requested they must be written in italics and be centered.
Bibliographical notes:
They will be written in their proper order in between brackets without special characters in Garamond, 12, in accordance with the following example: (Filipescu, (year), : 15-25);  (Filipescu, I., P.,. Filipescu, A., (year), : 15-25). We mention that the colons represent the publication year as in the following example: Considerăm că prin regim matrimonial înţelegem totalitatea normelor juridice, care reglementează relaţiile sociale stabilite între soţi, sau între unul sau ambii soţi, pe de o parte, şi terţe persoane, pe de altă parte, relaţii ce au drept obiect bunuri existente în momentul căsătoriei sau dobândite pe parcursul acesteia precum şi obligaţii contractate în legătură cu aceste bunuri sau în vederea îndeplinirii sarcinilor căsătoriei. (Dariescu, (2007), :37). We also mention that the titles of the books will not be translated from Romanian into English. Like wise, the Moldavian authors are requested to use the Latin alphabet for the bibliographical notes.
The footnotes:
They must be written without special characters in Garamond, 10. They will contain all the explanations, commentaries and definitions which the author considers compulsory for the proper understanding of the text.
The bibliography:
It must be grouped, where necessary, in the following sections: treatises, lectures, monographs; scientific articles; bodies of law; web pages. The bibliography must be written without special characters and in alphabetical order. E. g: Dariescu, N., C. Dariescu, C., Petraru, A., R., (2009), Dreptul familiei, Editura Lumen, Iasi, Romania. When journals, reviews or conference papers are quoted, the authors will be grouped alphabetically as follows: Dariescu, N., C., (2010), Thoughts concerning the formal conditions needed for the contracting of marriage from the point of view of the stipulations in the new Civil Code in “Journal of Legal Studies”, Editura Lumen, Iasi, Romania.

The article will be joined by a short presentation of the author which should highlight:  the academic degree, the academic title, the employment information, the professional or research activity and also the mail address where he/ she will receive the journal.

Caution!
The Romanian variant of the Journal of Legal Studies must observe the same drafting conditions, excepting the special characters in the text (the bibliography and the bibliographical notes will be written without special characters as well as in the English version).
The titles of the articles must be written both in Romanian and in English. The abstract and the key words must be written only in English.

Deadline for submissions:

The articles will be sent between:
• no. 1-2 deadline March 15, teaching articles.
• no. 3-4 deadline October 15, teaching articles.

The articles will be sent to the email address This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . This address is spam protected; you need to activate JavaScript in order to visualize it.