Editorial Profile

Aequitas Magazine is a peer-reviewed scholarly Journal of Law and Legal Culture, published on a monthly basis and grounded in the principles of transparency, integrity, accountability, and publication ethics, in line with internationally recognized best practices in scholarly communication.

The Journal is published exclusively in digital format and, having neither applied for public subsidies nor received revenue from editorial activity, is exempt—pursuant to Article 3-bis(1) of Law No. 103/2012—from any registration requirement under Article 5 of Law No. 47/1948 (Italian Press Law).

Aequitas Magazine is identified by ISSN 3035-0271 (online portal) and ISSN 3035-4803 (monthly periodical).

The Journal is fully open access, with no economic, technical, or temporal barriers, and adheres to the highest international standards of accessibility, interoperability, and dissemination of knowledge.

All submissions undergo a rigorous scientific evaluation process based on qualified peer review.

Mission and Foundational Identity

The title Aequitas Magazine deliberately invokes the Roman-law concept of aequitas, understood as a corrective and integrative principle capable of tempering positive law where normative rigidity—or historical and social change—could otherwise yield outcomes that are formally valid yet substantively unjust.

The Journal adopts as its scientific and identity-defining motto the renowned definition attributed to Celsus (2nd century A.D.), cited by Ulpian at the opening of the Digest:

Ius est ars boni et aequi.

This maxim expresses the epistemological orientation of the Journal: law as a rational art of concrete justice, rather than a purely technical exercise or a mechanical application of rules.

The Journal’s mission is to foster critical, rigorous, and interdisciplinary legal scholarship, combining doctrinal analysis with close attention to case law and to the ethical, social, cultural, and anthropological implications of legal phenomena.

Aequitas Magazine provides a qualified forum for scholarly inquiry grounded in a systemic and contextual reading of law, overcoming sectoral, merely descriptive, or reductionist approaches.
In a historical context marked by rapid and pervasive transformations—normative, technological, and social—the Journal affirms that law and legal practice require continuous engagement with substantive justice, human dignity, equity, reasonableness, and fundamental rights.

Its methodological orientation is explicitly cross-cutting, multidisciplinary, and intersectoral, inspired by Edgar Morin’s principle of Complexity as a privileged interpretive key for contemporary socio-legal issues. Accordingly, the Journal encourages structured dialogue between law and adjacent fields, including anthropology, bioethics, philosophy, history, geopolitics, and technology.

Publisher and Scientific Cooperation

The Journal is published by Aequitas Magazine (Italian tax code 93089850635), an independent Cultural Association for Legal Studies and Research based in Italy,

through which the Journal constitutes a scientific and academic expression of the organization’s statutory aims.

The Publisher is identified within the Research Organization Registry (ROR) and the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI), in accordance with international best practices for persistent identification of research and scholarly-publishing organizations, ensuring uniqueness, interoperability, and metadata standardization.

Aequitas Magazine cooperates, as an editorial resource, with the “Hugo Gernsback” Research Laboratory of the Leonardo da Vinci University, Torrevecchia Teatina (CH), Italy.

Indexing, Discovery, and Catalogues

Aequitas Magazine is:

• Indexed in DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) as a high-quality peer-reviewed scholarly journal.
• Listed in ROAD (Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources), sponsored by UNESCO.
• Identified in OCLC – WorldCat with unique identifier 10556399657.
• Included in major international discovery services and catalogues (e.g., EBSCO, Ulrich’s Web – Serials Solutions, BASE, among others), and held by leading academic libraries (including Harvard Library and MIT Libraries).
• Registered in CINECA with code E277033.
• Catalogued in the Italian National Library Service (SBN) with code RMG0316326, searchable via OPAC.
• Available among open access resources of the Central Legal Library of the Italian Ministry of Justice and within ICCU (Italian Central Institute for the Union Catalogue) under the Ministry of Culture, and listed in MLOL – Media Library OnLine.

Open Access Policy and Licensing

Aequitas Magazine endorses the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) (14 February 2002), promoting full and free access to scholarly literature.

Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0).
Non-commercial reuse, distribution, and public communication are permitted, provided that proper attribution is given and first publication in the Journal is acknowledged.

The Journal’s publication and self-archiving policy is registered in Mir@bel (Repository Policy).

Open access enables broad, lawful reuse without fees or undue restrictions, including reading, copying (in whole or in part), linking to the full text, downloading PDFs, sharing via email or social media, scanning for indexing, text and data transmission to software, and any other legitimate purpose, in support of the dissemination of scientific knowledge and free access to research outputs.

No Publication Fees

The Journal does not charge APCs (Article Processing Charges) and does not impose any submission or publication fees.
All publishing costs are fully covered by the Publisher.

Scientific Standing and Academic Use

Aequitas Magazine systematically adheres to criteria identifying the scientific character of research publications under Article 3-ter(2) of Law No. 1/2009 and the Italian University Council (CUN) Proposal of 24 October 2013.

Published works may be used for academic evaluation and, where applicable, in public competitive procedures (including notarial examinations) and for the recognition of continuing professional development credits by the Italian National Bar Council.

Publication Ethics and Audience

The Journal operates in accordance with its Publication Ethics (PDF) and addresses a qualified audience of researchers, scholars, and legal professionals, pursuing primary objectives of scientific research, and than education and professional development.

Editorial Policy and Peer Review

The statutory academic ethos of Aequitas Magazine (Research and Legal Studies Cultural Association) is reflected in the Journal’s editorial activity through an explicitly cross-cutting, multidisciplinary, and intersectoral methodology. The Journal advances a systemic and contextual approach capable of accounting for the full range of values at stake, in a manner that is careful, fair, reasonable, and scientifically grounded.

The Journal adopts as an elective methodology the analysis of the multifactorial nature of reality and human phenomena, in homage to Morin’s Complexity paradigm, intended as an interpretive framework suitable for capturing the dynamic interaction between normative, social, cultural, ethical, and technological dimensions of law.

The Journal therefore promotes and values scholarly contributions that address intersections across disciplines, facilitating structured dialogue between law and fields such as anthropology, bioethics, philosophy, history, geopolitics, and technology, on the premise that contemporary legal phenomena require analytical tools that are neither sectoral nor reductionist.

Aequitas Magazine applies a selective and rigorous editorial policy aimed at optimizing publishable content according to recognized standards of scientific quality and transparency.

All submissions undergo a thorough evaluation process, including anti-plagiarism check and double-blind peer review, to ensure impartiality, independence of judgment, and scientific reliability.

Editorial evaluation is based on criteria including originality, clarity, argumentative coherence, terminological accuracy, robustness of sources and bibliography, scientific relevance, depth of critical analysis, and methodological rigor.

Contributions primarily fall within the “Social” macro-area, with a primary focus on Area 12 – Legal Sciences, and may extend across multiple domains with interdisciplinary intersections in Area 14 – Political and Social Sciences, according to the Journal’s thematic sections (Thematic Areas), including:

• Current Case Law: Contemporary case law, with particular attention to Italian Supreme Court Joint Chambers decisions;
• Current Legal Issues: Legal issues of significant social, cultural, and geopolitical relevance;
• Civil Law;
• Criminal Law;
• Law and Anthropology;
• Law and Bioethics;
• Law and History;
• Law and Technology.

This Editorial Policy forms an integral component of the Journal’s scientific identity and ensures epistemological coherence, academic authority, and alignment with international standards for high-profile peer-reviewed journals.

Archiving, Digital Preservation, and Persistent Identifiers

Aequitas Magazine implements a structured system of backup and long-term digital preservation.

Publications are deposited in Zenodo, an open access repository operated by CERN within the OpenAIRE programme, and are assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and an additional persistent identifier, ARK (Archival Resource Key), to ensure stability, interoperability, accessibility, citability, and long-term preservation.

The Journal is also subject to permanent web archiving through the services of the digital library Internet Archive, including the Wayback Machine, by means of the creation and preservation of periodic snapshots of its main editorial pages and published contents. This web archiving system ensures the historical traceability of versions, the continuity of access, and the long-term verifiability of scholarly information, even in the event of updates, technological migrations, or possible discontinuation of the website.

Authors retain full rights to self-archive their works in institutional or disciplinary repositories, or in other repositories of their choice, in compliance with the Journal’s editorial policy and the applicable licensing conditions.

Scientific Governance

The Scientific Director and the Scientific Committee ensure editorial independence, methodological rigor, and the scientific quality of the Journal’s publications.

Scientific Committee

• Luigi Zito

  Scientific Director

  Lawyer in Italian Supreme Court and Higher Courts. President, Aequitas Magazine Cultural Association for Legal Studies and Research. Qualified to teach (SSD) IUS/01, IUS/04, IUS/09, IUS/13, IUS/17 — IUL University of Florence.

• Eugenio Zito

  Professor of Cultural Anthropology — Department of Social Sciences — Federico II University of Naples.

• Vincenzo D’Antò

  Professor of Oral and Dental Diseases — Department of Neurosciences — Federico II University of Naples.

• Alessia Amelio

  Engineer. Professor of Information Processing Systems – Department of Engineering and Geology – Gabriele D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara.

• Eleonora Colombo

  Lawyer in Italian Supreme Court and Higher Courts. PhD in History and Doctrine of Institutions — University of Insubria.

• Ciro Maria Ruocco

  Lawyer. PhD in Comparative Private Law — University of Salerno.

• Taha Eslami

  PhD Candidate in Criminal Law and Criminology — Azad University of Tabriz.

• Antonio Fusiello

  Lawyer in Italian Supreme Court and Higher Courts. Specialist in Administrative Law.

• Tammaro Diana

  Lawyer in Italian Supreme Court and Higher Courts.

• Gerardo Bianco

  Lawyer in Ecclesiastical Tribunal of Naples.

• Viola Valentina Graziano

  Lawyer; Specialist in Administrative Law. Vice President, Aequitas Magazine Cultural Association for Legal Studies and Research.

• Vincenzo Caiazzo

  Lawyer; Specialist in Public Administration Organization, Management, and e-Government.