History
Learn about the history of the Legal Review.
Evolution of the magazine
In order to facilitate its accessibility and adapt to new technologies, since December 2015, the RJCM began to be published, free of charge, in digital format, through the continuous publication and dissemination of doctrinal articles on its website.
Its regulatory recognition was reflected in article 52 of the Regulations of the General Lawyers of the Community of Madrid, approved by Decree 105/2018, of June 19, of the Government Council, which regulates the RJCM as a means of disseminating legal knowledge, with special attention to those aspects directly related to the regulations emanating from the institutions of the Community of Madrid. Said precept also regulates the composition of its Editorial Board, made up of the head of the General Law Office of the Community of Madrid, the head of the General Sub-directorate for Consultative Matters, the head of the General Sub-directorate for Litigation, the head of the Subdirectorate General for Conventional Legal Assistance, Constitutional Affairs and Studies and three Lawyers from the Community of Madrid.
Contents
In January 2020, the RJCM expanded its content by incorporating monthly legal news bulletins, which compile the most relevant regulatory and jurisprudential developments, specifically examining all those issues related to the jurisdiction of the Community of Madrid.
Finally, as of July 2022, these bulletins include not only reviews of general provisions and judicial resolutions, but also doctrinal comments, returning to the RJCM the character of periodic publication that it had during the period in which it was published on paper.
The Legal Review of the Community of Madrid was born in 1999 as a forum for jurists to express themselves and a meeting point for anyone interested in delving into the science of Law.
first copy
The first issue was published in January 1999, coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of the Spanish Constitution, promulgated on December 27, 1978, as well as with the increase in powers assumed by the Community of Madrid a year and a half before, through the reform of its Statute of Autonomy by Organic Law 5/1998, of July 7.
Preface to the first issue
It was prefaced by the then Minister of the Presidency of the Community of Madrid, Mr. Jesús Pedroche Nieto, with the declared purpose of contributing to the better knowledge and dissemination of our constitutional and statutory system, as well as legislation and jurisprudence, affirming in it that "Knowledge of Law cannot be limited to the set of rules that are published in official gazettes -the so-called objective Law-, but must be extended to the study of legal reality, the true object of the science of Law, for which it is fundamental jurisprudence (understood in a broad sense, as a set of reasoning and decisions of the courts) and the doctrine of the authors or writers of Law. In this sense, the Legal Review of the Community of Madrid, together with the doctrinal contributions of various jurists, both integrated in the Autonomous Administration and outside it, must pay attention to the resolutions of the courts, and in particular the High Court of Justice (which culminates the judicial organization within our Autonomous Community), as well as the decisions of other specially qualified organs of interpretation and application of Law”.