APPROACH AND SCOPE

The Verba Iuris magazine of the Postgraduate Institute of Libre University appeared for the first time in 1990, arising as a consequence of the need to have a useful means to disseminate legal and humanist concepts, a product of research and essays on different topics of the science of law.

In this order of ideas, the first issue of the magazine was intended to present several research results related to the postgraduate degree in criminal law and criminology, with interesting publications from national and international professors. In this first issue, the participation of the Argentine professors Eugenio Zaffaroni stands out with an article that analyzed the problem of recidivism, and of Professor Edgardo A. Donna with writing that aimed to link human rights with criminal dogmatics and criminology.

Subsequently, the Verba iuris magazine grew in quality and variety of topics, since the strengthening of the Postgraduate Institute of the university allowed articles not only on criminal law and criminology to be linked but also on procedural, administrative, forensic science and evidentiary technique, public financial law, constitutional law, family law, labor law, and commercial law. As a consequence of the above, in 2011 the journal entered the index of journals indexed in Colciencias, category C, evidencing the quality and consistency in the dissemination of research results from professors, graduate students, and special guests.

Currently, the Verba Iuris magazine is the most important means of disseminating research results of the Postgraduate Institute of the Libre University, which has specializations, masters, and doctorates in law, having 29 publications in which it has contributed academic growth of law in Colombia.