About the Journal

ISSN:2835-687X

 

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.