Metodo Giuridico — Italian Journal of Law and Case Law
An independent Italian Diamond Open Access scholarly legal periodical (ISSN 3103-7305) devoted to systematic doctrinal analysis and critical commentary on Italian, Constitutional, and European Courts.
Technical Sheet of the Serial Publication
Systematic legal scholarship and critical case-law analysis
Metodo Giuridico — Ius et Ratio (ISSN 3103-7305) is an independent Italian scholarly legal journal established in Rome to foster rigorous doctrinal analysis and critical examination of judicial decisions across the Italian and European legal systems.
Against the fragmentation of hyper-specialized legislation and the uncritical repetition of judicial headnotes, the journal upholds the centrality of systematic interpretation, dogmatic coherence, and deductive legal reasoning as essential safeguards of legal certainty and individual rights.
“Reaffirming the value of legal method means recognizing that the jurist’s argumentative rigor is itself a safeguard of rationality, liberty, and systemic coherence.”
Doctrinal Essays and Case Notes grounded in full-text primary sources
The journal publishes original peer-reviewed contributions written by academics, Supreme Court and appellate advocates, magistrates, and legal scholars, structured into two editorial series:
Doctrinal Essays & In-Depth Studies (Approfondimenti)
Monographic studies investigating foundational legal categories, resolving statutory antinomies, and examining legislative reforms and evolving judicial doctrines in light of constitutional and European Union principles.
Case Notes & Commentaries (Note a Sentenza)
Critical analyses of landmark judgments delivered by the Italian Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court of Cassation (Civil, Criminal, and Labour Divisions, including the Joint Chambers — Sezioni Unite), the Council of State (including the Plenary Assembly — Adunanza Plenaria), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
Five core pillars of Italian and European law
The editorial program spans the five major branches of the Italian legal order, organized into 38 specialized sub-disciplines:
Administrative & Public Law (Diritto Amministrativo)Public procurement, administrative procedure, judicial review, urban planning, environment & energy
Labour Law & Social Security (Diritto del Lavoro)Employment relationships, individual & collective dismissals, trade union law, public employment & social security
Criminal Law & Procedure (Diritto Penale)White-collar & tax crimes, offences against public administration, precautionary measures, criminal procedure & sentencing
Tax Law (Diritto Tributario)Corporate taxation & VAT, tax assessment & collection, taxpayer’s statute, local taxes & tax court litigation
Bilingual Metadata, A4 PDF Offprints & Quarterly Volumes
To support comparative legal research and international library cataloguing, every contribution published in Metodo Giuridico provides:
- English Title & English Abstract: Every article includes an idiomatic English title and a structured abstract in both Italian and English (
Abstract (ITA)/Abstract (ENG)). - Standard Bibliographic Metadata: Embedded Google Scholar (
citation_*), Dublin Core (DC.*initanden), Open Graph, and Schema.org (ScholarlyArticle) tags in the HTML<head>. - Standalone Typeset A4 PDF & Quarterly Volumes: Every article is accompanied by a print-ready A4 PDF offprint with full footnote apparatus and verified primary sources, alongside cumulative Quarterly Collected Volumes (Raccolta Trimestrale).
- 8-Language Reading Assistance Selector: Each article page offers a client-side reading convenience selector (EN · ES · FR · DE · PT · ZH · JA · KO) for international scholars, while preserving the Italian text as the sole authoritative version.
Editorial Board (Direzione Scientifica)
The scientific direction, methodological standards, and editorial coordination of Metodo Giuridico are collegially entrusted to the Editorial Board:
Avv. Bruno Taverniti
Attorney at the Rome Bar (Foro di Roma). Scientific coordination, methodological review, and doctrinal direction of the journal.
Avv. Giovanni Ercole Moscarini
Attorney at the Rome Bar (Foro di Roma). Scientific direction, editorial governance, and supervision of the case-law series.
Avv. Federico Palumbo
Attorney at the Rome Bar (Foro di Roma). Scientific coordination, systemic compliance review, and editorial curation.
Scientific Committee (Comitato Scientifico)
The Scientific Committee safeguards the academic standing of the journal, advises on research priorities, and oversees the methodological rigor and scholarly quality of contribution assessment.
Prof. Avv. Leonardo Mazza
Scientific CommitteeFormerly Full Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Siena (Università degli Studi di Siena). Author of numerous monographs and scholarly publications in criminal law, juvenile criminal justice, and criminal procedure.
Double-Blind Peer Review & Primary-Source Audit
All submissions undergo an initial screening by the Editorial Board for scholarly relevance, originality, and methodological rigor. Doctrinal essays and in-depth studies are evaluated through a double-blind peer review process conducted by at least two independent external referees holding academic or specialist qualifications in the relevant legal field.
Case notes and legislative commentaries undergo collegial scientific review and a mandatory primary-source audit against full-text judicial decisions and statutes in force, strictly excluding second-hand or unverified citations.
Zero APCs & CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License
Metodo Giuridico operates under a pure Diamond Open Access model: all articles and A4 PDF volumes are immediately and permanently free to read and download without registration or embargo, and no submission, refereeing, or publication fees (Zero APCs — Article Processing Charges) are ever charged to authors or their institutions.
Authors retain full copyright and moral rights over their works (Italian Law No. 633/1941), granting the Publisher a non-exclusive license of first publication. All contributions are published under the Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.
Publication Ethics (COPE) & Immediate Deposit
The journal adheres to the ethical guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), enforcing originality and anti-plagiarism verification, conflict-of-interest disclosure, personal-data anonymization in case commentaries (Art. 52, Italian Legislative Decree No. 196/2003), and transparent corrigendum/retraction procedures.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to deposit the Publisher’s Version of Record (A4 PDF) immediately and without embargo in institutional university repositories (IRIS / CINECA, OpenAIRE) and disciplinary open archives (SSRN, Zenodo), with citation to the original publication in Metodo Giuridico (ISSN 3103-7305).
