Aims and Scope
Aims
Justitia Nova: Indonesian Journal of Modern Law is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to advancing rigorous, original, and theoretically and empirically grounded scholarship in law. The journal provides a scholarly forum for academics, legal practitioners, policymakers, and researchers to critically examine contemporary legal developments, emerging regulatory challenges, institutional transformation, and evolving questions of justice from Indonesian, regional, and global perspectives. By fostering methodologically diverse and intellectually substantive research, the journal seeks to contribute to the development of legal knowledge while strengthening the connection between legal scholarship, institutional practice, and evidence-informed public policy.
The journal aims to advance legal scholarship by publishing original and innovative research that offers substantive contributions to contemporary debates in law and legal studies. It encourages doctrinal, empirical, comparative, socio-legal, and interdisciplinary approaches that are theoretically informed, methodologically transparent, and responsive to developments in society and legal institutions. The journal also seeks to foster meaningful academic collaboration among scholars, researchers, legal practitioners, and policymakers across jurisdictions and disciplines.
Particular emphasis is placed on comparative scholarship that situates Indonesian legal developments within broader regional and international contexts. Through such comparative engagement, Justitia Nova seeks to facilitate a deeper understanding of legal convergence, divergence, institutional variation, and regulatory transformation across jurisdictions. The journal also supports research that contributes to evidence-based legal reform, accountable governance, sustainable development, the protection of human rights, and the strengthening of legal institutions.
In addition, Justitia Nova aims to bridge legal theory and practice by encouraging scholarship that addresses concrete legal problems and generates meaningful implications for legal policy, institutional development, judicial practice, regulatory governance, and social transformation. The journal therefore values research that moves beyond purely descriptive analysis and offers critical, theoretically informed, and practically relevant insights into contemporary legal challenges.
Scope
Justitia Nova welcomes original research articles, review articles, conceptual papers, and case analyses that make a clear and substantive contribution to legal scholarship. The journal adopts a broad and interdisciplinary conception of modern legal studies and welcomes submissions addressing established areas of law as well as emerging fields shaped by technological, economic, environmental, political, and social transformation.
Constitutional and Administrative Law
The journal welcomes research on constitutional law, constitutional reform, constitutional courts and judicial review, administrative law, public governance, decentralization and regional autonomy, the rule of law, democratic institutions, and related questions concerning constitutionalism and the organization and accountability of public authority.
Civil, Commercial, and Business Law
Relevant areas include civil law, contract law, commercial law, corporate law, consumer protection, labour and employment law, investment law, financial regulation, and emerging legal issues concerning business activities, private transactions, corporate governance, and economic regulation.
Criminal Law and Human Rights
The journal welcomes scholarship addressing criminal law, criminal justice, human rights law, international criminal law, restorative justice, victim protection, access to justice, and related questions concerning accountability, punishment, procedural fairness, and the protection of fundamental rights.
Comparative and International Law
Research may address comparative law, public international law, private international law, ASEAN legal integration, cross-border legal issues, global legal governance, and the interaction between domestic, regional, and international legal orders. Particular consideration is given to studies that generate meaningful comparative insights across jurisdictions.
Digital Law and Emerging Technologies
The journal encourages research examining the legal implications of technological transformation, including cyber law, data protection and privacy law, artificial intelligence and law, digital governance, FinTech regulation, platform regulation, legal informatics, and emerging regulatory challenges associated with digital economies and technology-driven societies.
Islamic Law and Legal Pluralism
Relevant scholarship includes Islamic law, Islamic family law, Islamic economic law, halal regulation, legal pluralism, comparative religious law, and the interaction between religious, customary, national, and international legal norms. The journal particularly welcomes theoretically grounded and comparative studies addressing the transformation of Islamic legal institutions in contemporary societies.
Environmental and Sustainable Development Law
The journal welcomes research on environmental law, climate change law, natural resource law, disaster law, sustainable development law, ESG, environmental governance, and related legal responses to ecological challenges, resource management, climate resilience, and sustainable development.
Public Policy and Governance
Research in this area may examine public policy, regulatory reform, anti-corruption law, public administration, governance and accountability, public institutions, regulatory institutions, and the relationship between legal frameworks and public-sector performance. The journal encourages research that provides evidence-based insights into institutional effectiveness and regulatory transformation.
Socio-Legal and Interdisciplinary Studies
Justitia Nova welcomes socio-legal and interdisciplinary research addressing the sociology of law, law and society, law and economics, legal anthropology, gender and law, and contemporary legal issues. Studies that integrate legal analysis with insights from political science, economics, sociology, anthropology, public policy, technology, or other relevant disciplines are particularly encouraged where such integration produces substantive analytical value.
Distinctive Focus
Justitia Nova distinguishes itself through its commitment to contemporary legal scholarship that combines doctrinal, empirical, comparative, socio-legal, interdisciplinary, and policy-oriented approaches. The journal seeks to strengthen the position of Indonesian legal scholarship within wider regional and international academic debates while providing a platform for research that responds critically to emerging legal, institutional, technological, environmental, and societal challenges.
The journal particularly values manuscripts that employ comparative analysis to examine legal systems, institutions, regulatory frameworks, and policy responses across jurisdictions. Such research should move beyond simple description or comparison and demonstrate why similarities, differences, institutional choices, or regulatory approaches matter for legal theory, practice, and policy.
The journal also prioritizes research addressing contemporary legal challenges associated with digital transformation, artificial intelligence, data governance, environmental sustainability, globalization, regulatory innovation, institutional accountability, and changing patterns of social and economic organization. Submissions are expected to demonstrate a clear research problem, robust analytical framework, appropriate methodology, and a meaningful contribution to existing scholarship.
Methodological diversity is strongly encouraged. Doctrinal, empirical, comparative, socio-legal, qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, and interdisciplinary approaches are welcomed where appropriately designed and transparently applied. The methodological approach should be clearly justified in relation to the research question and should enable the study to generate credible and academically defensible findings.
Justitia Nova further encourages scholarship that contributes to legal reform, institutional development, public policy, sustainable development, and the strengthening of justice and human rights at national, regional, and international levels. Research connecting Indonesian legal developments with international experiences, comparative perspectives, and broader theoretical debates is particularly encouraged.
Ultimately, the journal seeks to promote an intellectually open and internationally oriented community of legal scholarship. Through engagement across jurisdictions, disciplines, methodologies, and theoretical perspectives, Justitia Nova aims to advance a more critical, evidence-informed, and globally connected understanding of modern law and its role in shaping institutions, governance, justice, and society.