About the Journal

Pakungwati Law Review

About the Journal

A peer-reviewed forum for critical, interdisciplinary, and socially responsive scholarship in law and legal studies.

Journal Profile

Pakungwati Law Review (PLR) is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to advancing critical and interdisciplinary scholarship in law and legal studies. The journal provides a forum for scholars, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to examine contemporary legal issues through doctrinal, comparative, empirical, socio-legal, historical, philosophical, and interdisciplinary perspectives.

PLR welcomes theoretically informed and methodologically rigorous studies addressing legal developments in Indonesia and other jurisdictions. It also encourages comparative and transnational research that connects legal doctrine with social realities and contributes to contemporary debates on law, justice, governance, and legal change.

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Publisher

PLR is published by the Pakungwati Institute for Social Transformation and Justice under Yayasan Pawiyatan Pakungwati Cirebon, Indonesia.

Academic Orientation

PLR is particularly interested in scholarship that explores the relationship between law, society, justice, and social transformation.

Law and Society
How legal norms, institutions, actors, and practices interact with social life and lived experience.
Justice and Legal Change
The role of law in protecting rights, resolving disputes, reforming institutions, and responding to social change.
Legal Diversity
Dialogue among state law, religious law, customary law, comparative traditions, and transnational norms.

Fields of Scholarship

The journal's scope includes, but is not limited to, the following fields:

Constitutional Law Administrative Law Criminal Law Private and Commercial Law International Law Human Rights Environmental Law Law and Technology Legal Pluralism Access to Justice Emerging Legal Issues

Methodological Breadth

PLR welcomes doctrinal, normative, comparative, empirical, socio-legal, historical, philosophical, and other interdisciplinary research approaches appropriate to the question under examination.

Geographical Reach

The journal publishes research on Indonesia and other jurisdictions and encourages regional, comparative, international, and transnational perspectives that promote dialogue across legal systems.

Publication Model

Double-Blind
Peer-review system
Biannual
Two regular issues each year
Open Access
Immediate online availability
CC BY-SA 4.0
Authors retain copyright

Our Readership

PLR serves academics, researchers, lecturers, students, legal practitioners, judges, advocates, public officials, civil-society organizations, policymakers, and other readers interested in legal scholarship and the relationship between law and social transformation.

Editorial Commitment

By fostering dialogue across legal traditions, disciplines, and jurisdictions, Pakungwati Law Review seeks to advance legal scholarship that is intellectually rigorous, ethically grounded, socially responsive, and relevant to contemporary challenges of justice and legal change.