DiGoP is published by the Institute for Comparative Federalism and the Institute for Minority Rights at Eurac Research, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy. It is linked to the Research Group on “Constitutionalism and Societal Pluralism: Diversity Governance Compared” within the International Association of Constitutional Law IACL.

Editorial team

Elisabeth Alber

Sergiu Constantin

Georg Grote

Karl Kössler

Petra Malfertheiner

Francisco Javier Romero Caro

Advisory board

The advisory board is composed of the members of the Research Group on “Constitutionalism and Societal Pluralism: Diversity Governance Compared” within the International Association of Constitutional Law IACL.

Please submit your paper to digop@eurac.edu, ensuring it adheres to our editorial policy and citation style. We warmly welcome submissions from individuals with diverse backgrounds including those from underrepresented communities and minorities, as well as early-stage researchers.

Length: min. 4,000 – max. 6,000 words

Language: English (please note that DiGoP does not offer language editing services)

Peer review: All papers undergo a double blind peer review process and are screened for plagiarism.

Citation style: OSCOLA or Harvard

DOI: All publications will be attributed a DOI.

Open Access Policy: DiGoP applies the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license to articles we publish. By submitting a paper for publication by DiGoP, the author agrees to have the CC BY license applied to the work. Under this Open Access license, the author agrees that others can distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon the work, even commercially, as long as the author and the original source are properly cited. This facilitates freedom in re-use and also ensures that DiGoP content can be mined without barriers for the needs of research.

Author rights and charges: By publishing a paper in DiGoP, the author grants the journal the right of first publication under the CC BY license. The author retains the copyright of the paper. The author may deposit the paper in an institutional or other depository of his/her choice. There are no fees or charges to publish in DiGoP.

Archiving: All DiGoP papers are available on the journal website and permanently stored on Eurac Research's repository.

Rejections: If a paper is rejected, the author will be informed of the reasons in writing. Should the author not agree with these reasons, he or she can communicate the editor-in-chief of his/her objection in writing with a statement. The editorial team will subsequently evaluate the paper a second time, taking into account the aforementioned statement, and will inform the author of its final decision.