The Journal of Nova Roman Law

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Overview

The Collegium Iurisprudentium Journal of Nova Roman Law (JNRL) is currently the only academic journal in Nova Roma. The journal is sponsored and administered by the review of the membership of the Collegium. The Journal currently publishes as required through the course of the year.

Established under Collegium resolution XV, on a.d. IV Non. Sext. ‡ P. Aurelio C. Flavio cos. ‡ MMDCCLXXVIII a.u.c., the Collegium established this formal, published academic study journal. The JNRL is an important piece to the Advocate and Jurisconsult courses, run by the Collegium, where students are required to submit a final article to this journal. The journal stands as a high-end collection of researched corroborations, analyses, commissioned studies, and opinion pieces by Nova Roman citizens, qualified to provide commentary on Nova Roman law.

The journal sits as a live, "living" document, constantly added to over time. Every new and approved submission is amended as a new catalogued article in the journal. The journal is online-accessible from the Nova Roma Wiki website and via a downloadable PDF. The journal remains free and open to view, but the PDF is only available to download by Collegium members.

The Journal is subdivided into years, where articles that were submitted in that year will be listed in chronological submission order. There is no restriction on how often the journal may be updated with new submissions.

Who can submit to the JNRL

The following citizens are eligible to make submissions to the JNRL:

A. All members of the Collegium Iurisprudentium.

B. All citizens who are serving or who have served as praetor, consul, or censor.

C. Citizens assigned to the Law Revision Committee of Classicists and Latinists.

D. All current Nova Roman senators.

E. Current serving decemviri stlitibus iudicandis.

In all cases, it is implied that authors must be current active citizens in good standing, cives optimo iure, and be tax-paying citizens, assiduus.

Submission process

All submissions are initially assessed by the Magistri for compliance and editorial appropriateness. Under the will of the Magistri, they will bring the submission to the Collegium to be voted on under a resolution. Upon a simple majority voting in favour of the resolution, the submission is to be included in the journal, facilitated by the magistri. If the author(s) of the submission are members of the Collegium, they are entitled to 3 Merit Points as under Article XXIII.I of the Collegium charter. Submissions must follow the following format requirements:

• Submissions must be a minimum of 1000 words, with a tolerance of 10 percent. Submission cannot be any larger than 3000 words with a tolerance of 10 percent. Bibliography is not included in the word count.

• Submissions must be typed in English, opting for North American spelling, although use of Latin is permitted for ad hoc words, concepts, positions/offices, and short phrases. The text should always be easily discernible to an English reader.

• Submissions must use Chicago NB style referencing, a system of note citation and bibliography reference list. There is no limit to the number of authors, but submissions with an overly large number of authors may be requested to provide a breakdown summary of contributions.

• Submissions must not use Artificial Intelligence (AI). Although the use of AI to guide submission planning and layout is acceptable, AI cannot be used to write any portion of the body of text.

• Submissions may contain a single line for attributions or acknowledgments.

• Images are permitted but must be captioned, numbered, and must contribute to the submission (cannot simply be for decorative illustration). No more than four images are permitted per submission, and they must each be less than or equal to 600 pixels in either dimension.

Publication

There are yet to be any submissions.