The Journal of Portuguese-Speaking Law (RDL), run by the International Research Network on Lusophone Law (REDIL), is designed to bring forth legal studies with a robust interdisciplinary component and an attentive eye on contemporary issues of tangible significance to the Portuguese-speaking world and to the world at large.
The Journal of Portuguese-Speaking Law (RDL) is opening in 2025 the debut call for submissions for its different sections.
The RDL is inviting all those who are interested to submit articles for the thematic section of its first issue, dedicated to law, freedom and peace.
All papers intended for the first issue of the RDL must be submitted by 15 October 2025.
Read more about 2025 Call for Papers: Law, Freedom, and PeaceAs we celebrate the freedom of all the countries of the CPLP, especially the ones celebrating the golden anniversary of their triumph, we will continue to uphold it under the sign of the communion of the lively spirit of liberated thinking with the prudent judgement of scientific culture.
This, however, goes hand in hand with something that extends beyond a commemorative occasion. After all, if we are to understand law, we need to appreciate the dimension of human freedom, expressed both on an individual level and in the social and political order.
Peace, in turn, is the way leading to the full enjoyment of freedom and the effective assurance of justice, and it falls incumbent upon the legal community to watch over its fulfilment.
Faced with the scourge of ongoing wars and other confrontational phenomena of catastrophic magnitude claiming lives and ravaging the world with pain and destruction, there is an unpostponable demand for the promotion of peace, the key building block on which stands the trustworthy promise of the integral development of our potential as human beings and as communities.
