About the Journal

About the REDI

The Revista Española de Derecho Internacional (the REDI or the Journal), founded in 1948, is a scientific journal of great tradition and biannual periodicity, evaluated by external independent peers in a double-blind process. REDI is affiliated with the Spanish Association of Professors of International Law and International Relations (Asociación Española de Profesores de Derecho Internacional y Relaciones Internacionales – AEPDIRI), which exercises various functions related to the Journal: (i) holds the title; (ii) approves its General Guidelines; (iii) participates in the composition of its organs; and (iv) in accordance with AEPDIRI's aim of promoting the study and progress of international, private and public law, European Union law and international relations, promotes its publication. REDI is currently edited through the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform and published by Tirant lo Blanch in open access electronic format through the Journal's website (http://www.revista-redi.es) but can be printed on demand.

The REDI provides a forum for reflection and academic debate among jurists and political scientists from the Spanish, European and international scientific community, with special attention to Latin America, and to this end publishes papers, preferably in Spanish, on topics related to international, private and public law, and international relations, in keeping with the multidisciplinary nature of the AEPDIRI. In this way, the REDI contributes to the construction of theoretical and practical knowledge from an analytical, critical and axiological perspective. It focuses on the international organizations and institutions that make up the existing public and private international law, and that shape the relevant events and contexts of international relations. We thus contribute to the role assumed by international law as a promoter of peace, justice and cooperation among the international community with the ultimate aim of fostering economic and social development, as well as the maintenance of international peace and security.

The structure of the REDI has varied over the course of its more than 75 years of existence, maintaining throughout this time a doctrinal section (now called "Studies") and another that incorporates reviews or bibliographical reviews ("Bibliography"). In addition to these sections, there is currently an "Editorial" and, with no fixed periodicity, a section called "Forum", which includes doctrinal debates on current issues, and another on "Spanish Practice", which gives continuity in some way to the "classic" chronicles of Spanish practice and jurisprudence which for so many years made Spanish judicial practice and decisions of international relevance known through the REDI.

The REDI is governed by its General Guidelines and other applicable rules, guidelines, standards and recommendations (e.g., on the conduct of elections to bodies or on the good governance of the Advisory Council) and the entire editorial process is inspired by the values and criteria set out in the Ethical Guidelines. It is open to both Spanish and foreign specialists -who may send their papers adapted to the Authors’ Guidelines-, especially from the Ibero-American Community and the European Union, and, within its Focus and Scope, the only determining criteria for the publication of papers in the REDI are their relevance and interest, for the Journal and its readers, and their adequate scientific development and scientific quality. Authors can find more detailed rules on the formal requirements or criteria for publication (Authors’ Guidelines) and on the submission of papers (Submission of Manuscripts).

The organs of the REDI

Editor-in-Chief: Joaquín Alcaide Fernández, University of Seville, Spain (jalcaide@us.es)

Associate Editor-in-Chief:  Silvia Feliu Álvarez de Sotomayor, University of Islas Baleares, Spain (silvia.feliu@uib.es)

Editorial Board:

Along with the Editor-in-Chief, the current composition is:

  • Joana Abrisketa Uriarte, University of Deusto, Spain (joana.abrisketa@deusto.es)
  • Pilar Blanco-Morales Limones, University of Sevilla, Spain (mblancomorales@us.es)
  • Miguel Gardeñes Santiago, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain (miquel.gardenes@uab.cat)
  • Rafael Grasa Hernández, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain (rafael.grasa@uab.cat)
  • José Luis Iriarte Ángel, Public University of Navarre, Spain (jluis.iriarte@unavarra.es)
  • Enrique Martínez Pérez, University of Valladolid, Spain (enriquejesus.martinez@uva.es)
  • Leire Moure Peñín, University of the Basque Country, Spain (leire.moure@ehu.es)
  • Helena Torroja Mateu, University of Barcelona, Spain (htorroja@ub.edu).

Advisory Board:

  • Paz Andrés Sáenz de Santa María (University of Oviedo, Spain)
  • Celestino del Arenal Moyúa (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
  • Fulvio Attinà (University of Catania, Italy)
  • Andrea Bonomi (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
  • Jorge Cardona Lloréns, Universidad de Valencia, España
  • José Carlos Fernández Rozas (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
  • Araceli Mangas Martín (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
  • Wagner Menezes (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
  • Elisa Pérez Vera, National Distance Education University, Spain
  • Fausto Pocar, University of Milan, Italy
  • Fabian Salvioli, University of La Plata, Argentina
  • Arlene Tickner, University of the Rosario, Colombia
  • Tullio R. Treves, University of Milan, Italy

The other Positions Related to the REDI: the Editors and the Reviewers

The Editors

  • David Carrizo Aguado (University of León, Spain)
  • Guillem Gabriel Pizarro (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
  • Laura Movilla Pateiro (University of Vigo, Spain)
  • Montserrat Pintado Lobato (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
  • Alejandro Sánchez Frías (University of Málaga, Spain)
  • Antonio Sánchez Ortega (University of Granada, Spain)

The Reviewers. The intervention of external reviewers in the process of assessing the quality of the Studies and, where appropriate, of the Notes, through the double-blind method, dates back at least to the 1980s. The reviewers who have participated in the editorial process of each volume of the Journal since 2019 are published on the website.

Focus and scope of REDI. Editorial lines

The Revista Española de Derecho Internacional (the REDI or the Journal) is a scientific journal affiliated to the Asociación Española de Profesores de Derecho Internacional y Relaciones Internacionales - Spanish Association of Professors of International Law and International Relations (AEPDIRI or the Association), which is its owner and which, in accordance with its aim of promoting the study and progress of international law, private and public, European Union law and international relations, promotes its publication.

In keeping with the multidisciplinary nature of AEPDIRI, the REDI publishes manuscripts, preferably in Spanish, on subjects relating to international law, private and public, and international relations, and related subjects (transnational law, foreign relations law, etc.), providing a forum for reflection and academic debate among jurists and political scientists from the Spanish, European and international scientific community, with special attention to the Latin American community.

Given the existence of other prestigious specialised Journals that also publish in Spanish on European Law, in general, and European Union Law, in particular, the European Union and the “material” law of the European Union only interest to the REDI, in principle, in its relationship with international law, private and public, and international relations.

In this way, the REDI contributes to the construction of theoretical and practical knowledge from an analytical, critical and axiological perspective, focusing on the international institutions and organisations that make up existing public and private international law and that shape the relevant events and contexts of international relations. It thus contributes to the role of international law as a promoter of peace, justice and cooperation in the international community with the ultimate aim of fostering sustainable economic and social development and the maintenance of international peace and security.

The REDI's editorial lines are:

  • New normative developments in international law, public or private, or specific aspects thereof.
  • From the material point of view, issues relating to the general part of international law, private or public, or more special issues, such as:
  • international civil procedural law, international civil law (personal, family, inheritance, contractual and non-contractual obligations or property), international trade law or international labour law;
  • the law relating to spatial (including the territory of States, condominiums, the law of the sea, outer space, etc.) and personal competences of the State, secession and statehood, international organisations, the maintenance of peace and security, human rights, international humanitarian law, international economic law or the protection of the environment, including the 2030 Agenda, climate change, the fight against terrorism, refugees and migration, biodiversity and marine genetic resources, etc.
  • From the perspective of sources, international or supra-state codification of international law, private and public, both at the universal level (with particular reference, as regards private international law, to the Hague Conference, UNCITRAL or UNIDROIT), and regional, not only European (EU, Council of Europe, ICCS, etc.), but also from other regions (especially the Americas). Likewise, manuscripts on the state codification of international law, private or public, will also be assessed, either globally or in specific matters related to its content, especially Spanish regulatory practice.
  • Aspects of international law, private and public, in cross-cutting or multidisciplinary sectors such as, among others, consumer protection, data protection, protection of human rights, nationality law, immigration law, Internet law and new technologies. Manuscripts on international transnational law, judicial settlement of disputes, international arbitration or other means of alternative dispute or conflict resolution will also be considered.
  • Doctrinal reflections on the discipline (e.g. on specific authors or scientific schools) and on the historical development of international law, private and public.
  • The application of public international law (responsibility, liability, sanctions, diplomatic protection, etc.).
  • The regional perspectives (Asian, African...) of international law and international relations.
  • Spanish practice in the field of public international law and international relations.
  • The study of the main processes and dynamics that take place in international society. The subject matter of the studies will focus on cooperation, integration, peace, conflict, not necessarily violent, in all its manifestations, with special interest in the new forms and representations of these phenomena in the current international environment.
  • The theory of International Relations and International Politics. Particular value will be given to those manuscripts that contribute to a critical deepening of the knowledge of the different theoretical approaches or propose innovations or advances for international theory and its explanation of specific international phenomena.
  • Contributions on non-Western visions of International Relations. This will include studies that propose a narrative that is not based on Western theoretical visions and that contribute to highlighting logics of thought, forms of international action and proposals for alternative international orders.
  • Studies on geopolitical and geo-economic trends in international relations at regional, global or specific thematic levels.

The REDI is governed by its General Guidelines and other applicable rules, guidelines, standards and recommendations, and the entire editorial process is inspired by the values and criteria set out in the Ethical Guidelines. It is open to specialists in international law, private and public, and international relations, both Spanish and foreign -who may submit their manuscripts adapted to the Authors’ Guidelines–, especially from the Ibero-American Community and the European Union. Within its Focus and scope, the only determining criteria for the publication of papers in REDI are their relevance and interest, for the Journal and its readers, and their appropriate scientific development and scientific quality. The REDI provides full open access online to contribute fully to the global knowledge community. Authors can find more detailed rules on the formal requirements or criteria for publication ("Authors’ Guidelines ") and on the submission of papers ("Submission of manuscripts").

The REDI’s Regulations

As a Journal affiliated to the AEPDIRI, the REDI is governed by its General Guidelines (adopted by the Governing Board of the AEPDIRI, upon proposal of the Editorial Board of the REDI, on 12 March 2018 and ratified by the General Assembly of 20 September 2019, as amended on 2023) and other applicable rules, guidelines, standards and recommendations, in particular: the Regulations on Conduct of Elections to the AEPDIRI Bodies, the Guidelines and Rules on the Conduct of Elections to the Boards of the Journal or the Recommendations on Good Governance for the Journal's Advisory Board, all approved by the General Assembly of the AEPDIRI, held in Seville, on October 16, 2015.

On the other hand, the entire editorial process is inspired by the values ​​and criteria set out in the Ethical Guidelines, applicable to all REDI bodies, authors, reviewers and editors, and the published works have to comply with the Authors’ Guidelines. Reviewers have a Review Guide and will complete, preferably in the online format that they will access after accepting the review, a Review Form (only in Spanish).

The History of the REDI

The REDI in its more than 75 Years of History

The origin of the REDI dates back to 1948, when it was founded at the "Instituto Francisco of Vitoria Institute" of the Superior Council of Scientific Investigations (Consejo Superior de Investigación Científica – CSIC), and since then more than one hundred issues and seventy-four volumes have been published.

Between 1948 and 1974 there were three "periods" with different Directors (today Editors-in Chief): the first period, until 1963, under the joint direction of Antonio de Luna y García, Fernando M.ª de Castiella y Maíz and Federico de Castro y Bravo; the "second epoch", under the direction of Mariano Aguilar Navarro, between 1964 and 1968; and the third, under the direction of Luis García Arias, between 1969 and 1974, with Antonio Truyol y Serra as Deputy Director, who after the death of Luis García Arias would in fact take over the direction in 1973 and formally in 1975. During these “periods”, in addition to the Directorate/Director, the REDI had an Academic Secretariat (today the Associate Editor-in-Chief) and an old Editorial Board, which had a Chairman and Vice-Chairman between 1969 and 1974 and which served as the current Editorial Board and, above all, the current Advisory Board.

However, during the direction of Mariano Aguilar Navarro, an organic restructuring (a Board of Trustees replaced the Editorial Board and a new Editorial Board was created and, in addition, Mariano Aguilar having been head of Editors between 1960 and 1963, in 1964 a team of Editors was incorporated into the Journal organic structure) and a methodological renewal (paying attention to Spanish practice and jurisprudence, as well as to the Spanish doctrine of the 19th and 20th centuries) were anticipated that, later, Antonio Truyol y Serra would take up.

The transition to democracy in Spain and the adoption of the Spanish Constitution of 1978 brought four new features to the REDI during the "new epoch" under the direction of Antonio Truyol y Serra (1975-1988). 

These changes were developed under the de facto direction of Antonio Truyol Serra after the death of García Arias in 1973, but they had certainly been largely anticipated after Mariano Aguilar Navarro took over as director of REDI. In both cases, the changes reached the cover of the Journal. REDI's new journey in democratic Spain meant, in effect, the consolidation of the organic restructuring and changes in the contents of the Journal that had previously existed between 1964 and 1968.

(i) First, the CSIC was restructured, and, among other adjustments, the “Instituto Francisco de Vitoria” where REDI had been located until then disappeared and would later be replaced by the “Instituto de Ciencias Jurídicas”. Although the Journal continued to depend on the CSIC until 1996, after the disappearance of the “Instituto de Ciencias Jurídicas”, the CSIC delegated certain functions related to the Journal to the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) between 1993 and 1995, until in 1995 the AEPDIRI obtained the transfer of the same.

(ii) Secondly, the REDI received the unconditional support of the AEPDIRI, legally constituted in 1978. Already at that time, the AEPDIRI informed the REDI of its desire to find in it an organ of expression, and the Journal's Director and the new Editorial Board established in 1976, while warmly welcoming the birth of the Association, cordially thanked it for its support and gladly offered the Journal's pages to express its authoritative voice.

Following the delegation of the editing and publication of the Journal by the CSIC to the UC3M, the AEPDIRI signed a collaboration agreement for this purpose with the University. Finally, following a tripartite agreement between the CSIC, the UC3M and the AEPDIRI, the Journal was granted to the AEPDIRI.

(iii) Thirdly, the process of organic restructuring and methodological renewal of the Journal, carried out by Mariano Aguilar Navarro between 1964 and 1968, was resumed in 1975. On the one hand, the Editorial Board was replaced again by a Board of Trustees which, in 1987, would become the Advisory Board; a year later, in 1976, the renew Editorial Board of REDI reappeared, which had already replaced the Directorate between 1964 and 1968 and which, until 1987, together with the other members, included the editor-in-chief, the head of the editors created in 1978 to head the team of editors who had joined the REDI in 1964 and the Associate editor-in-chief. On the other hand, although there was no continuity in the interest in Spanish doctrine of the 19th and 20th centuries (and therefore not only in the authors of the "Spanish classical school"), the sections dedicated to Spanish practice and, later, to Spanish jurisprudence in the field of international law were included again in the Journal, while the extensive bibliographic section was reduced.

(iv) And, fourthly, for the first time, female professors joined the Journal's organs. The pioneer was Elisa Pérez Vera, who had been already in 1965, when the REDI was edited under the direction of Mariano Aguilar Navarro, the first woman to publish in the Journal. She was the first female professor to become a member of the Board of Trustees when it replaced the old Editorial Board in 1975; shortly afterwards, she was joined in 1978 by Victoria Abellán Honrubia. Other women would join the Board of Trustees (Araceli Mangas Martín and Nuria Bouza Vidal, in 1986) and, later, the Advisory Board (Blanca Vilá Costa, in 1987; Paz Andrés Sáenz de Santamaría and Lucía Millán Moro, in 1989; Alegría Borras Rodríguez and, again, Araceli Mangas Martin, in 1991; Elisa Pérez Vera, in 1998; and Paz Andrés Sáenz de Santa María, again, and Linda Silberman, in 2011). On the other hand, Fanny Castro-Rial Garrone was the first female professor to occupy the Academic Secretariat of the Journal (1980), and, as such, the first to form part of the new Editorial Board created in mid-1976. Subsequently, Pilar Domínguez Lozano, from 1991 to 1998, M.ª Ángeles Ruiz Colomé, from 1998 to 2001, and Marta Requejo Isidro, from 2016 to 2019, have also held the post of Academic Secretary. In addition to Fanny Castro-Rial, other members of the new Editorial Board have included Elisa Pérez Vera, M. ª Luisa Espada Ramos, Lucía Millán Moro, Esperanza Orihuela Calatayud, Pilar Rodríguez Mateos, Victoria Abellán Honrubia, Alegría Borras Rodríguez, Concepción Escobar Hernández, Esther Barbé Izuel, Araceli Mangas Martín, Cristina González Beilfuss, Caterina García Segura, Elena Zabalo Escudero, Irene Rodríguez Manzano, Blanca Vila Costa, Montserrat Abad Castelos, Inmaculada Marrero Rocha, Joana Abrisketa Uriarte, Helena Torroja Mateu and Leire Moure Peñín. It was not until 2001 that Paz Andrés Sáenz de Santa María became the first female Editor-in-Chief of the Journal; she was succeeded by Alegría Borrás Rodríguez (2009) and Araceli Mangas Martín (2016).

When the REDI was edited under the direction of Julio D. González Campos (1988-1997), and always with the support of the AEPDIRI, the Journal gradually became disassociated from the CSIC from 1993 onwards. Between 1994 and 2010, the Journal was edited and published by the Official State Gazette (Boletín Oficial del Estado-BOE), with the collaboration of the Carlos III University of Madrid (1994-1996). Afterwards, the Journal has been edited by Marcial Pons between 2010 and 2022. During these years, some other changes were carried out under the direction of other professors of the "Oviedo School of International Law” (Luis I. Sánchez Rodríguez, between 1998 and 2001, and Paz Andrés Sáenz de Santa María, between 2001 and 2009), Alegría Borrás (2009-2015), Araceli Mangas Martín (2016-2019) and Jorge Cardona Lloréns (2020-2022). For example, the distribution among the members of the Editorial Board of the coordination of each section of the REDI was specified in the Journal. Other changes were motivated by the adaptation of the REDI to the requirements of quality certifications and indexing, which were added to the already consolidated incorporation of external reviewers from outside the Journal's organs for peer review through a double-blind process: the creation of the website and the publication also in electronic format with greater accessibility dated back to 2010; the internationalisation of the Advisory Board as of 2012; etc. Before the actual open access and editorial process, since 2009 the REDI has been openly accessible in electronic format through its website from volume 58 (2006), with the exception of the last two issues, and from volume 1 (1948) through subscription to Heinonline or JStor.

Gallery of Historical Covers of the REDI

1948-1963 y 1969-1974

1964-1968

1975-1990

1991-1993

1994-1996

1997

1998-2010

2011-2022

The Organs of REDI and other REDI-Related Positions since 1948

Between the year of the foundation, in 1948, and 1974, the REDI's organs have been the Directorate/Director (today Editor-in-Chief) and the Academic Secretariat (today Associate Editor-in-Chief), accompanied by an Editorial Board. This (old) Editorial Board became a Board of Trustees in 1975. To complement the Board of Trustees, a new Editorial Board was created in mid-1976. Moreover, from 1969, a team of editors joined the Journal, and even from 1978 until the end of Antonio Truyol y Serra's term as Director in mid-1988, there was an Editor-in-Chief (a position then other than that of Director) who was a member of the new Editorial Board. External reviewers were involved in the editorial process, at least from the 1980s onwards. Since 1987, there Board of Trustees is the current Advisory Board

The Former Editors-in-Chief / Directors

  • Antonio de Luna y García, Fernando M.ª de Castiella y Maíz and Federico de Castro y Bravo, from the University of Madrid, who formed a Board of Directors between 1948 and 1963, the former being director of the "Francisco of Vitoria Institute" of the CSIC;
  • Mariano Aguilar Navarro, University of Madrid (1964-1968);
  • Luis García Arias, University of Madrid and director of the "Francisco of Vitoria Institute" of the CSIC (1969-1974), with Antonio Truyol y Serra, University of Madrid and Deputy director of the Institute, who served de facto as Director of the REDI after the death of Luis García Arias in 1973;
  • Antonio Truyol y Serra, University of Madrid (1975-1988);
  • Julio D. González Campos, Autonomous University of Madrid (1988-1997);
  • Luis I. Sánchez Rodríguez, Complutense University of Madrid (1998-2001);
  • Paz Andrés Sáenz de Santa María, University of Oviedo (2001-2009);
  • Alegría Borrás, University of Barcelona (2009-2015).
  • Araceli Mangas Martín, Complutense University of Madrid (2016-2019)
  • Jorge Cardona Lloréns, University of Valencia (2020-2022).

The Former Associate Editors-in-Chief / Academic Secretaries

Between 1948 and 1950, César G. Fernández-Castañón and Luis García Arias jointly held the Academic Secretariat of the REDI, the former being Secretary of the "Francisco of Vitoria Institute" of the CSIC and both professors at the University of Madrid. Luis García Arias remained Academic Secretary until 1952, when he was already attached to the University of Zaragoza. After that, Jesús Manuel Millaruelo Clementez, University of Madrid (1953-1954), Fernando Arias Parga (1955-1958) and Álvaro Alonso-Castrillo, Lawyer at the Spanish Council of State (1959-1963) successively occupied the Academic Secretariat.

Between 1964 and 1968, during the direction of Mariano Aguilar Navarro, Álvaro Alonso-Castrillo and, later, Julio D. González Campos were Associate editors-in-chief.

From 1969 to 1974, the Academic Secretariat was held by Luciano Pereña Vicente (University of La Laguna) together with Enrique Pecourt García, during 1969, and then with José Luis Fernández Flores, who replaced Enrique Pecourt in 1970.

Between 1975 and 1977, the Academic Secretary was Gregorio Garzón Clariana, who was replaced in 1980, after the momentary disappearance of the post in 1978-1979, by Fanny Castro-Rial Garrone. During 1988, Miguel Ángel Amores Conradi took over the Academic Secretariat, until he was replaced in 1991 by Pilar Domínguez Lozano (Autonomous University of Madrid), who shared it between 1994 and 1998 with Carlos R. Fernández Liesa (Carlos III University of Madrid).

The Academic Secretariat was held by Pedro A. de Miguel Asensio and M.ª Ángeles Ruiz Colomé (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) between 1998 and 2001, with only the former remaining between 2001 and 2009. It would then be assumed, between 2009 and 2016, by Antonio Pastor Palomar (King Juan Carlos University of Madrid), and, between 2016 and 2019, by Marta Requejo Isidro (University of Santiago de Compostela, then Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law, Luxembourg and Lawyer at the Court of Justice of the European Union) and between 2019 and 2023 by Josep Ibáñez Muñoz (Pompeu Fabra University).

The Former Members of the new Editorial Board (1964-1968 and 1976 onwards)

The new Editorial Board created in 1964 was originally composed of the director of the Journal (Mariano Aguilar Navarro) and Adolfo Miaja de la Muela, Juan Manuel Castro-Rial, Antonio Truyol y Serra, Juan Antonio Carrillo Salcedo, José Puente Egido, Luciano Pereña Vicente (Secretary of the Francisco de Vitoria Institute) and Álvaro Alonso-Castrillo (Secretary of the Journal), to which Julio D. González Campos would join in 1966 as the new Secretary of the Journal. When Antonio Truyol recovered this Editorial Board in 1976, it was composed of the director of the Journal (Antonio Truyol y Serra), three counselors (Manuel Díez de Velasco Vallejo, Juan Antonio Carrillo Salcedo and Antonio Remiro Brotóns) and the secretary of the Journal (Gregorio Garzón Clariana). For a few years, the director and the three counselors simultaneously belonged to the Editorial Board and to the Board of Trustees.

When the position of head of editors was resumed in 1978, the person occupying it was also a member of the Editorial Board, with the first head of editors being José Antonio Pastor Ridruejo and then, from 1983, Eduardo Vilariño Pintos.

Between 1980 and 1983 there were many changes in the new Editorial Board: in 1980, Fanny Castro-Rial Garrone took over from Gregorio Garzón Clariana as Academic Secretary and, therefore, in the Editorial Board; in 1981, Juan Antonio Carrillo Salcedo and Antonio Remiro Brotóns left the Editorial Board and Julio D. González Campos, Oriol Casanovas y la Rosa, Luis Garau Juaneda and José Olivares D'Angelo joined it; in 1982, Primitivo Mariño Gómez joined the Editorial Board; and in 1983, all the Editorial Board members other than Primitivo Mariño, left and were replaced by José Antonio Pastor Ridruejo, Elisa Pérez Vera, Gregorio Garzón Clariana, M.ª Luisa Espada Ramos and Alfonso L. Calvo Caravaca.

In 1987 the Board was renewed: Primitivo Mariño (Institute of Legal Sciences of the CSIC) stayed on; Oriol Casanovas y la Rosa (Pompeu Fabra University), Antonio Ortiz Arce de la Fuente (Complutense University of Madrid), Luis Ignacio Sánchez Rodríguez (Complutense University of Madrid), Lucía Millán Moro (University of Cádiz) and Miguel Virgós Soriano (Autonomous University of Madrid) joined the Editorial Board. All of them remained on until 1991.

In the latter year, with Julio D. González Campos already at the helm of REDI, Oriol Casanovas y la Rosa and Antonio Ortiz Arce de la Fuente left the Editorial Board and Diego J. Liñán Nogueras (University of Granada), Esperanza Orihuela Calatayud (University of Murcia) and Pilar Rodríguez Mateos (University of Oviedo) joined it. After the death of Primitivo Mariño in 1994, Alfonso L. Calvo Caravaca and Fernando M. Mariño Menéndez (Carlos III University of Madrid) joined the Editorial Board, and the following year, Victoria Abellán Honrubia (University of Barcelona) and Roberto Mesa Garrido (Complutense University of Madrid).

The Editorial Board was composed between 1998 and 2001 by Francisco Aldecoa Luzárraga (University of the Basque Country), Celestino del Arenal Moyúa (Complutense University of Madrid), Alegría Borras Rodríguez (University of Barcelona), Concepción Escobar Hernández (University of Cantabria), Manuel López Escudero (University of Granada), Fernando M. Mariño Menéndez (Carlos III University of Madrid), Andrés Rodríguez Benot (University of Seville) and Sixto Sánchez Lorenzo (University of Granada).

Between 2001 and 2009, the composition of the Editorial Board was as follows: until 2003, it was composed of Santiago Álvarez González (University of Santiago de Compostela), Celestino del Arenal Moyúa, Esther Barbé Izuel (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Alegría Borras Rodríguez, Concepción Escobar Hernández, Cesáreo Gutiérrez Espada (University of Murcia), Araceli Mangas Martín and Sixto Sánchez Lorenzo; between 2004 and 2008, Santiago Álvarez González, Esther Barbé Izuel, Cesáreo Gutiérrez Espada and Araceli Mangas Martín remained, and Miguel Ángel Amores Conradi, Rafael Arenas García, Antoni Pigrau Solé and José Ángel Sotillo Lorenzo joined; After the departure of the former, Rafael Calduch Cervera (Complutense University of Madrid), Cristina González Beilfuss (University of Barcelona), Guillermo Palao Moreno (University of Valencia) and Javier Roldán Barbero (University of Granada) joined.

From 2009, Rafael Calduch Cervera, Cristina González Beilfuss, Guillermo Palao Moreno and Javier Roldán Barbero continued, and they were joined by Romualdo Bermejo García (University of León), Javier Diez-Hochleitner Rodríguez (Autonomous University of Madrid), Caterina García Segura (Pompeu Fabra University) and Fernando M. Mariño Menéndez (Carlos III University of Madrid). In the 2012 renewal, Rafael Calduch Cervera, Cristina González Beilfuss, Guillermo Palao Moreno and Javier Roldán Barbero left, and Francisco Aldecoa Luzurraga (Complutense University of Madrid), Jorge Cardona Llorens (University of Valencia), Joaquim J. Forner Delaygua (University of Barcelona) and Elena Zabalo Escudero (University of Zaragoza) joined the Editorial Board. In 2014, Romualdo Bermejo García, Javier Diez Hochleitner, Caterina García Segura and Fernando Mariño Menéndez left, and Carlos Espósito Massicci (Autonomous University of Madrid), Luis M. Hinojosa Martínez (University of Granada), Irene Rodríguez Manzano (University of Santiago de Compostela) and José Manuel Sobrino Heredia (University of A Coruña) joined.

In 2016, Carlos Espósito Massicci, Luis M. Hinojosa Martínez, Irene Rodríguez Manzano and José Manuel Sobrino Heredia remained on the Editorial Board, and José Luis de Castro (University of the Basque Country), Manuel Desantes Real (University of Alicante), Federico F. Garau Sobrino (University of the Balearic Islands) and Blanca Vilá Costa (Autonomous University of Barcelona) joined it. In 2018, those who had been members since 2014 will be replaced by Montserrat Abad Castelos (Carlos III University of Madrid), Joaquín Alcaide Fernández (University of Seville), Jaume Ferrer Lloret (University of Alicante) and Inmaculada Marrero Rocha (University of Granada). In 2019, José Luis de Castro, Manuel Desantes Real, Federico F. Garau Sobrino and Blanca Vilá Costa left Editorial Board, as Montserrat Abad Castelos, Jaume Ferrer Lloret and Inmaculada Marrero Rocha did in 2021.

The Former Members of the Advisory Board (1987 onwards)

The REDI's Advisory Board came into being as such in 1987, following the conversion of the former Board of Trustees which existed between 1975 and 1986 and which, in fact, in its composition, came to replace the old Editorial Board which existed between 1948 and 1974. Certainly, all the members of the Board of Trustees in 1986 became part of the new Advisory Board in 1987: Luis Sela Sampil, Pedro Cortina Mauri, Juan Manuel Castro-Rial, Antonio Poch y Gutiérrez de Caviedes, Mariano Aguilar Navarro, Vicente Ramírez de Arellano, Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Alejandro Herrero Rubio, Francisco Sánchez-Apellániz Valderrama, Manuel Díez de Velasco Vallejo, Juan Antonio Carrillo Salcedo, José Puente Egido, José Antonio Pastor Ridruejo, Enrique Pecourt García, Werner Goldschmidt, Julio D. González Campos, Antonio Marín López, Manuel Medina Ortega, José Luis Fernández Flores, Elisa Pérez Vera and Oriol Casanovas y la Rosa, Antonio Remiro Brotons, Eloy Ruiloba Santana, Manuel Pérez González, Roberto Mesa Garrido, Victoria Abellán Honrubia, José Luis Iglesias Buigues, Antonio Ortiz Arce, Luis Ignacio Sánchez Rodríguez, José Carlos Fernández Rozas, Alegría Borrás Rodríguez, José María Espinar Vicente, Luis Garau Juaneda, Gregorio Garzón Clariana, Alejandro Rodríguez Carrión, Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias, José Juste Ruiz, Fernando M. Mariño Menéndez, Alberto Herrero de la Fuente, Celestino del Arenal Moyua, Eduardo Vilariño Pintos, Alfonso L. Calvo Caravaca, Cesáreo Gutiérrez Espada, José Manuel Peláez Marón, Antonio F. Fernández Tomás, Antonio Pérez Voituriez, Mariano Aguilar Benítez de Lugo and Araceli Mangas Martín. The same 1987, Diego J. Liñán Nogueras, Blanca Vilá Costa and Jorge Pueyo Losa have joined the Advisory Board, as Carlos B. Jiménez Piernas and Nuria Bouza Vidal did later that year. The following year they were joined by José Antonio Corriente Córdoba and, in 1989, by Paz Andrés Sáenz de Santamaría, Joan Pinyol i Rull and Lucía Millán Moro.

From 1991 to 1998, except for the death of Mariano Aguilar Navarro in 1992, the Advisory Council was reduced to the following composition: Mariano Aguilar Navarro (Complutense University of Madrid), until his death, Manuel Diez de Velasco Vallejo (Complutense University of Madrid), Alegría Borrás Rodríguez (University of Barcelona), Carlos B. Jiménez Piernas (University of Alicante), Juan Manuel Castro-Rial Canosa (Carlos III University of Madrid), José Juste Ruiz (University of Valencia), Araceli Mangas Martin (University of Salamanca), Jorge Cardona Llorens (University of Valencia) and Sixto Sánchez Lorenzo (Complutense University of Madrid).

Between 1998 and 2001, the Advisory Board was composed of Juan Antonio Carrillo Salcedo (University of Seville), Juan Manuel Castro-Rial Canosa, Manuel Díez de Velasco, José Carlos Fernández Rozas (Complutense University of Madrid), Julio D. González Campos (Autonomous University of Madrid), Alejandro Herrero Rubio, Antonio Marín López (University of Granada), Roberto Mesa Garrido (Complutense University of Madrid), José Antonio Pastor Ridruejo (Complutense University of Madrid), Elisa Pérez Vera (UNED), Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias (University of Granada) and Antonio Truyol y Serra.

Then, between 2001 and 2011, some members of the Advisory Council passed away (Antonio Marín López and Antonio Truyol y Serra, in 2003, Juan Manuel Castro-Rial Canosa, in 2005, Julio D. González Campos, in 2007, and Manuel Díez de Velasco, in 2009) and others left (Alejandro Herrero Rubio and Roberto Mesa Garrido, in 2006).

At the General Assembly of AEPDIRI, held in Cordoba in 2011, at the proposal of the Editor-in-Chief of the REDI and the President of the AEPDIRI, the General Assembly of the AEPDIRI decided to internationalise the Advisory Board: together with the members who remained at the time (Juan Antonio Carrillo Salcedo, José Carlos Fernández Rozas, José Antonio Pastor Ridruejo, Elisa Pérez Vera and Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias) and Paz Andrés Sáenz de Santa María (University of Oviedo) and Celestino del Arenal Moyúa (Complutense University of Madrid), Antônio A. Cançado Trindade (University of Brasilia, Judge of the International Court of Justice and former President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights), Fausto Pocar (University of Milan and former President of the Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia), Linda Silberman (New York University), Christian Tomuschat (Humboldt University and former President of the International Law Commission) and Tullio R. Treves (University of Milan and former President of the International Law Commission) were elected to the Advisory Board. Subsequently, the Advisory Board was only modified due to the deaths of Juan Antonio Carrillo Salcedo in 2013 - after whose death the General Assembly of the AEPDIRI elected Antonio Remiro Brotóns (Autonomous University of Madrid)– and Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias in 2019.

Following the renewal made by the General Assembly held in Tarragona in 2021, José Antonio Pastor Ridruejo, Antônio A. Cançado Trindade, Linda Silberman, Christian Tomuschat and Antonio Remiro Brotóns ceased to be members of the Advisory Board.

The Members of the Former Board of Trustees (1964-1968 and 1975-1986)

The Board of Trustees created in 1964 was composed of the then members of the Directorate and the old Editorial Board, with J. de Yanguas Messía appointed as president, and was only modified by the death of some of its members.

At the beginning of the period headed by Antonio Truyol y Serra, the Board of Trustees was recovered, which, due to its composition, was once again a conversion of the Editorial Board and in 1987 it would become the Advisory Board. In addition to those who made up the previous Editorial Board, it incorporated three new professors, including Elisa Pérez Vera. Specifically, in 1975 the Board of Trustees was made up of Camilo Barcia Trelles, Luis Sela Sampil, Federico de Castro y Bravo, Adolfo Miaja de la Muela, Luis Legaz y Lacambra, Fernando María Castiella Maíz, Pedro Cortina Mauri, Juan Manuel Castro-Rial, Antonio Poch y Gutiérrez de Caviedes, Mariano Aguilar Navarro, Vicente Ramírez de Arellano, Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Alejandro Herrero Rubio, Francisco Sánchez-Apellániz Valderrama, Manuel Díez de Velasco Vallejo, Juan Antonio Carrillo Salcedo, José Puente Egido, José Antonio Pastor Ridruejo, Enrique Pecourt García, Werner Goldschmidt, Julio D. González Campos, José Luis de Azcárraga y Bustamante, Antonio Marín López, Manuel Medina Ortega, José Luis Fernández Flores, Elisa Pérez Vera and Oriol Casanovas y la Rosa.

Changes in the composition of the Board of Trustees followed, partly due to deaths (Fernando M. ª de Castiella, in 1976; Camilo Barcia Trelles, in 1977; Luis Legaz y Lacambra, in 1980; Adolfo Miaja de la Muela, in 1981; Federico de Castro y Bravo, in 1983; and José Luis de Azcárraga y Bustamante, in 1985) and partly due to the incorporation of new professors, in addition to the Director himself, Antonio Truyol y Serra (Antonio Remiro Brotons and Eloy Ruiloba Santana, in 1976; Manuel Pérez González and Roberto Mesa Garrido, in 1977; Victoria Abellán Honrubia, José Luis Iglesias Buigues and Antonio Ortiz Arce, in 1978; Luis Ignacio Sánchez Rodríguez, in 1980; José Carlos Fernández Rozas, Alegría Borrás Rodríguez, José María Espinar Vicente and Luis Garau Juaneda and, later, Gregorio Garzón Clariana, Alejandro Rodríguez Carrión, Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias, José Juste Ruiz, Fernando Mariño Menéndez and Alberto Herrero de la Fuente, in 1982; Celestino del Arenal Moyua and Eduardo Vilariño Pintos, in 1983; Alfonso L. Calvo Caravaca, Cesáreo Gutiérrez Espada, José Manuel Peláez Marón, Antonio F. Fernández Tomás, Antonio Pérez Voituriez, Mariano Aguilar Benítez de Lugo and Araceli Mangas Martín, in 1986).

Those who were members of the Board of Trustees in 1986, together with Diego Liñán Nogueras, Blanca Vila Costa and Jorge Pueyo Losa, would make up the Advisory Council in 1987.

The members of the old Editorial Board (1948-1963 and 1968-1974)

During the first period, between 1948 and 1963, together with the Directorate, there was an Editorial Board that carried out the functions that are currently carried out by the Editorial Board and, above all, the Advisory Board, created as such in 1987 through the conversion of the former Board of Trustees.

That Editorial Board was originally formed by Mariano Aguilar Navarro (University of Seville), Camilo Barcia Trelles (University of Santiago de Compostela), Juan Manuel Castro-Rial (University of Salamanca), Pedro Cortina Mauri, Manuel Fraga Iribarne (University of Valencia), Luis Gestoso Tudela (University of Murcia, who remained on the Editorial Board until 1956), Luis Legaz y Lacambra (University of Santiago de Compostela), Vicente Ramírez de Arellano (University of La Laguna), José María Trías de Bes (University of Barcelona, until his death in 1965), Antonio Truyol y Serra (University of Murcia and, later, University of Madrid) and José de Yanguas Messía (University of Madrid).

Later, between 1949 and 1964, they were joined by: Enrique Gómez Arboleya (University of Madrid), Luis Sela Sampil (University of Oviedo) and Alejandro Herrero Rubio (University of Valladolid) in 1950; Adolfo Miaja de la Muela (University of Valencia) in 1951; Luis García Arias (University of Zaragoza) and Werner Goldschmidt (University of Tucumán) in 1953; César G. Fernández-Castañón (University of Madrid), in 1955; Francisco Sánchez-Apellániz Valderrama (University of La Laguna), in 1957; Joaquín Garde Castillo (University of Murcia) and Antonio Poch Caviedes (University of Santiago de Compostela), in 1960; and Manuel Díez de Velasco (University of Barcelona), in 1963.

When Luis García Arias took over the direction of the Journal in 1969, the Board of Trustees was again called the Editorial Board and had a president, José de Yanguas Messía, and a Vice-President, Camilo Barcia Trelles (University of Madrid), and was also composed of Luis Sela Sampil (University of Oviedo), Federico de Castro y Bravo (University of Madrid), Adolfo Miaja de la Muela (University of Valencia), Luis Legaz y Lacambra (University of Madrid), Fernando M. ª de Castiella y Maíz (University of Madrid), Pedro Cortina Mauri, Juan Manuel Castro-Rial, Antonio Poch Gutiérrez de Caviedes (University of Santiago de Compostela), Mariano Aguilar Navarro (University of Madrid), Vicente Ramírez de Arellano (University of Salamanca), Manuel Fraga Iribarne (University of Madrid), Alejandro Herrero Rubio (University of Valladolid), Francisco Sánchez-Apellániz Valderrama (University of Seville), Manuel Díez de Velasco (University of Barcelona and later the Autonomous University of Madrid), Juan Antonio Carrillo Salcedo (University of Granada), José Puente Egido (University of Zaragoza), and Werner Goldschmidt (University of Buenos Aires). In 1970 José Antonio Pastor Ridruejo (University of Murcia) and Enrique Pecourt García (University of Salamanca), in 1971 Antonio Marín López (University of Barcelona) and José Luis de Azcárraga y Bustamante (University of Santiago de Compostela), and in 1972 Julio D. González Campos (University of Oviedo) and Manuel Medina Ortega (Complutense University of Madrid) joined the old Editorial Board.

The former Editors

In 1960, Mariano Aguilar Navarro was appointed as head of Editors within the Editorial Board and, precisely this professor, in 1964, when he assumed the direction of the Journal, incorporated a team of editors to REDI. Between 1978 and mid-1988 the position of head of editors was recovered, and the person occupying it formed part of the Editorial Board; this position was then occupied by José Antonio Pastor Ridruejo until he was replaced in 1983 by Eduardo Vilariño Pintos.

Between 1964 and 1968, Julio D. González Campos, replaced by Roberto Mesa in 1966, Manuel Medina Ortega and Enrique Pecourt García served as editors. In 1969 José Luis de Azcárraga y Bustamante, Manuel Medina Ortega, José Luis Fernández Flores and Fernando Murillo Rubiera, from the University of Madrid, were the editors. In the following years, José Luis Fernández Flores (1970), José Luis de Azcárraga (1971) and Manuel Medina (1972) left their posts, meanwhile in 1970 Manuel Pérez González and Alberto J. Lleonart y Amselem, from the University of Madrid, joined the team of editors.

At the beginning of the "new epoch" under the direction of Antonio Truyol y Serra, the editors were Alberto J. Lleonart y Amselem, Luis Martínez Sanseroni, Roberto Mesa Garrido, Antonio Ortíz-Arce de la Fuente, Manuel Pérez González, Alejandro Rodríguez Carrión and Eduardo Vilariño Pintos. Roberto Mesa and Manuel Pérez left in 1977, as Alberto J. Lleonart, Antonio Ortíz-Arce and Eduardo Vilariño did the following year. This last year Pedro Burgos Ródenas, Araceli Mangas Martín and Carlos B. Jiménez Piernas, and later, in 1982, Paloma Abarca Junco, Vicente Blanco Gaspar, Cesáreo Gutiérrez Espada, José Luis Iriarte de Ángel and Javier Zamora Cabot joined the team of editors. In 1983, all the editors were renewed, with María Isabel Castaño García, Javier Díez-Hochleitner Rodríguez, María Pilar Domínguez Lozano, Miguel de la Fuente Casamar, Carlos González de Heredia y Oñate and Mónica Guzmán Zapater taking over the editorship. Miguel de la Fuente would leave between 1984 and 1986, being replaced by María Dolores Robredo Barrio.

In 1989 the editors were renewed again: Aurelia Álvarez Rodríguez, Begoña Cerro Prado, Anabel v. Funcke, Javier González Vega, Martín C. Ortega Carcelén, José A. Perea Unceta and, shortly afterwards, Rafael Arroyo Montero joined the editorial staff. All of these, except Begoña Cerro, remained between 1991 and 1993, when Carlos Espósito, Francisco J. Garcimartín Alferez, Jazmina Rovi, M.ª Ángeles Ruiz Colomé and Rafael Uguina Orozco were also editors. In 1994, of these editors, only Carlos Espósito, M.ª Ángeles Ruiz and Rafael Uguina remained and M.ª Jesús Elvira Benegas, M.ª Victoria Cuartero Rubio and Luis Peral Fernández joined, and months later, Marta Kindelán and Paloma Ortiz. Between 1996 and 1998, C. Espósito, M.J. Elvira Benayas, M.V. Cuartero Rubio and M.A. Ruiz Colomé continued as editors, joined by M. Amparo Alcoceba, Alicia Cebada and Carmen Pérez González.

Between 1998 and 2001, the editors were Elena Álvarez López, Elena Artuch Iriberri, Rubén Carnerero Castilla, M.ª Victoria Cuartero Rubio, Ana Gema López Martín and Diana Sancho Villa.

From 2001, the editors were Javier González Vega, Pilar Jiménez Blanco, Patricia Orejudo Prieto de los Mozos, Enrique Rodríguez Martín, Davide de Pietri and Bernardo Fernández Pérez. In 2002, Raúl Rodríguez Magdaleno replaced Enrique Rodríguez Martín, and was joined by Cristina Artero Pérez and Ignacio Rodríguez Álvarez. Ángel Espiniella Menéndez joined the team of editors in 2003. Then, in 2005, Cristina Artero Pérez left and, in 2008, Javier A. González Vega, Ignacio Rodríguez Álvarez, Pilar Jiménez Blanco and Bernardo Fernández Pérez, while that last year Andrea Aragón Álvarez joined the team.

In 2009, the editors were Milagros Álvarez Verdugo, María Álvarez Torné, Georgina Garriga Suan and Laura Huici Sancho, joined in 2012 by Rosa Ana Alija Fernández. In 2013 only María Álvarez Torné and Georgina Garriga Suau remained.

In 2016, the editors were Mercedes Guinea Llorente, Patricia Orejudo Prieto de los Mozos and Francisco J. Pascual Vives, who were joined that same year by Marta Abegón Novella and Arantxa Gandía Sellens, in 2017 by María Asunción Cebrián Salvat and, throughout 2018, after the departure of Patricia Orejudo, Antonio Sánchez Ortega.

Marta Abegón, María Asunción Cebrián, Mercedes Guinea, Francisco J. Pascual and Antonio Sánchez remained as editors in 2020, and Guillem Gabriel Pizarro joined this year. Then, next year, Marta Abegón and Francisco J. Pascual left and Laura Movilla Pateiro (University of Santiago de Compostela) and Alejandro Sánchez Frías (University of Málaga) joined. In 2022, Mercedes Guinea and María Asunción Cebrián left and Montserrat Pintado Lobato (University of Santiago de Compostela) and David Carrizo Aguado (University of León) joined the team.

The Reviewers

Studies and, when published, also the Notes, published in the REDI have been subject to external review through the double-blind system at least since the 1980s, although no records of the reviewers have been kept before 2019: