CRITICAL SENSE - Legal Magazine of FPL's electronic format, and the objective of promoting the academic production of scientific researchers in the area of law and the like, as well as technical and scientific works pertaining to studies and techniques directly geared to the performance of a high level professional qualification of professionals in the area of law and the like, in order to answer the needs of the law, the State, democracy, of citizenship and of organizations (private or public, local, regional, national or international).

Thus, the Magazine seeks to provide critical reflection-academic and professional nature epistemological and cultural exchange, scientific and technical professional with teachers-researchers and other professionals in the area of law and the like, of the most diverse backgrounds and experiences with a view to influencing the formation of skills for critical assessment, intervention and resolution of problems related to the individual, society and the society and the State.

Focus and Scope

The Critical Sense Magazine aims to contribute to the development of academic knowledge-scientific and technical-scientific, through the dissemination of works of national and foreign authors, and related law, selected based on criteria of originality, quality and creativity and in accordance with the standards required by CAPES and other international bodies.

Thus, the Magazine will publish theoretical, empirical-theoretical articles, technical reports, thinks, translations, projects and initiatives of innovation, patents, intellectual property records, application development, among others, and even teaching cases linked to law and related areas.

For the Magazine, submissions will be accepted in portuguese, english and spanish, unpublished, original and recognized academic-scientific quality and technical-scientific.

Finally, the process of submission and evaluation is in continuous flow and all jobs are evaluated by the Associate Editors and by at least two referees, in double blind review system.

Process of Evaluation for Pairs

1 - The work received for the Magazine Critical Sense passes initially for a revision of admission (desk review) carried through by Publisher-Generality, or Associate Publisher-Generality, or the Associated Publisher or a member of the Scientific Publishing Body, for analysis and emission to seem on its adequacy to the publishing line of the Magazine and to the publication norms, in the maximum stated period of 30 days;

2 - If approved, the work will be directed for evaluation, that will be carried through by two appraisers, for the system double blind review, in the maximum stated period of 120 days;

3 - In discord case it enters them to seem of the appraisers, the work will be directed to one third appraiser;

4 - The result of the evaluation can be: a) accepted for publication; b) required revisions; e c) rejected;

5 - The result of the evaluation will be communicated the author, with transcription of the commentaries made for the appraisers. After the author to carry through the alterations suggested for the appraisers, will be itself the case, the modified text reverse speed-will be directed to the same appraisers, for final evaluation;

6 - After the final approval, the work will pass for a revision of normalization, grammatical orthography and, under responsibility of the Magazine;

7 - The authors can follow the stages of the process of evaluation of the work submitted to the Magazine, by means of electronic system OJS, adopted for the Magazine Critical Sense.

Regularity

The Magazine is semester (jan/jun - jul/dec).

On the Publishing Advice

The Publishing Advice is constituted by academic and professional representatives of different Institutions of Education and Research.

The Advice deals with the questions of publishing politics of the Magazine, the quality of its publications and pertinent ethical questions to the publishing management, searching to guarantee the academic-scientific and technician-scientific credibility and the position that if waits of a scientific Magazine.

The Advice does not have envolvement with the content of any work in particular, but with the collection as a whole, establishing the general lines of direction that guide the periodic one.

It fits to each member of the Publishing Advice, by means of a joint with the Scientific Committee or Publisher-Generality and/or Associate Publisher-Generality of the Magazine: to interpret and to suggest perfectionings in the publishing politics of the Magazine; to divulge the Magazine Critical Sense; to locate itself as arbitrator in strategical questions of the envolvement of the Magazine in the half academic and professional; e to exert the function of “listener” of the academic-scientific and technician-scientific community in the similar area of the Right and mem if treating to the Magazine.

On the Publisher

Publisher-Generality co-ordinates the publishing process, searching to promote the development and the academic-scientific and technician-scientific quality of the Magazine Critical Sense.

In this work, Publisher-Generality evaluates, co-ordinates and guides the authors of the works submitted to the Magazine Critical Sense, Associate Publisher-Generality, the Publishers Associates, the members of the Scientific Committee, the Appraisers end Appraisers of the Magazine, watching over for the ethical standards in the publishing process.

Factors as academic-scientific and/or technician-scientific leadership, recognition of the community and description of academic and professional performance are considered for the choice for the Educational FPL of Publisher-Generality of the Magazine.

Publisher-Generality, also, is responsible the direct one for the establishment of the publishing politics, for the publishing management and the coordination of the flow of works of the Magazine, with aid of the system Open Journal System - OJS. A flowchart of the activities of the process of scientific publishing is explicit in platform OJS, the item of menu “On/On the Electronic Publication System of Magazines”.

It fits to Publisher-Generality, amongst other functions: to select, to evaluate and to indicate Associate Publisher-Generality and the Publishers Associates of the Magazine; to select, to evaluate, to indicate, to substitute and to exclude the members of the Scientific Committee, the Appraisers end Appraisers of the Magazine; to co-ordinate the team of involved employees with the periodic one; to revise the admission of articles submitted to the periodic one (desk review), or to delegate such attribution to Associate Publisher-Generality, the Publishers Associates or the member of the Scientific Committee of the Magazine; to indicate the appraisers for articles submitted to the publication, or to delegate such attribution to Associate Publisher-Generality or the Publishers Associates or the member of the Scientific Committee of the Magazine; to recommend alterations in submitted article contents, or to delegate such attribution to Associate Publisher-Generality, the Publishers Associates or the member of the Scientific Committee of the Magazine; to approve articles publication or to delegate such attribution to Associate Publisher-Generality; to accomplish continuous improvements of the periodic one and in its processes of publishing management.

On the Scientific Committee

The Scientific Committee is collegiate several-institutional, composed for professors and researchers with ample recognition in the academic community, representing the different scientific fields of the area and enclosing distinct regions of Brazil and other countries.

Its performance is made of form student body, with collective and democratic decisions, having as mission to look for to assure the credibility of the adopted publishing procedures, guaranteeing the scientific character of the Magazine.

The Scientific Committee does not intervene with the publishing operation of the Magazine, that is of responsibility of Publisher-Generality and its operational team.

It fits to the Scientific Committee: to argue and to develop proper regulations for norms and article formatting; to define criteria of evaluation and acceptance of works for publication; to accept new groups of research to participate of the committee; to think on the admission of new Reviewers and Evaluators of the Magazine; to think on the budget and politics of the Magazine; to define politics of circulation and signatures, among others substances of the Magazine with academic-scientific and technician-scientific nature.