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About the Journal
Pakungwati Law Review
About the Journal
Critical and interdisciplinary legal scholarship connecting law, society, justice, and social transformation.
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 from doctrinal, comparative, empirical, socio-legal, historical, and interdisciplinary perspectives. Its scope encompasses constitutional and administrative law, criminal law, private and commercial law, international law, human rights, environmental law, law and technology, legal pluralism, access to justice, and other emerging fields of legal scholarship.
Published by the Pakungwati Institute for Social Transformation and Justice under Yayasan Pawiyatan Pakungwati Cirebon, Indonesia, PLR is particularly interested in scholarship that explores the relationship between law, society, justice, and social transformation. The journal welcomes theoretically informed and methodologically rigorous studies addressing legal developments in Indonesia and other jurisdictions, as well as comparative and transnational perspectives. By fostering dialogue across legal traditions, disciplines, and jurisdictions, Pakungwati Law Review seeks to contribute to the development of legal scholarship that is intellectually rigorous, socially responsive, and relevant to contemporary challenges of justice and legal change.
Peer-Reviewed Independent academic assessment
Interdisciplinary Multiple approaches to law and society
Comparative and Transnational Indonesia and other jurisdictions
Core Areas
Constitutional Law Administrative Law Criminal Law Private and Commercial Law International Law Human Rights Environmental Law Law and Technology Legal Pluralism Access to Justice
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Advancing Law, Society, and Justice
PLR welcomes original and academically rigorous scholarship that contributes to the theoretical development and practical understanding of law and its relationship with society and justice.
A Forum for Meaningful Legal Scholarship
Pakungwati Law Review (PLR) invites scholars, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to submit manuscripts that examine legal problems with conceptual clarity, methodological rigor, and sensitivity to their wider social context.
The journal is particularly interested in studies that move beyond descriptive accounts, engage critically with relevant authorities and scholarship, and offer well-supported arguments capable of informing legal theory, institutional practice, public policy, or access to justice.
What PLR Seeks
Submissions should demonstrate a clear contribution and may address law through one or more of the following orientations:
Theoretical Development
Refining legal concepts, principles, doctrines, frameworks, and approaches to understanding law.
Refining legal concepts, principles, doctrines, frameworks, and approaches to understanding law.
Legal Practice and Institutions
Examining courts, legislation, administration, dispute resolution, legal professions, and institutional reform.
Examining courts, legislation, administration, dispute resolution, legal professions, and institutional reform.
Law in Social Context
Exploring how law interacts with society, culture, religion, economy, technology, politics, and everyday life.
Exploring how law interacts with society, culture, religion, economy, technology, politics, and everyday life.
Justice and Rights
Addressing equality, human rights, vulnerable groups, legal empowerment, remedies, and access to justice.
Addressing equality, human rights, vulnerable groups, legal empowerment, remedies, and access to justice.
Comparative Perspectives
Drawing meaningful comparisons across jurisdictions, institutions, legal traditions, or regulatory approaches.
Drawing meaningful comparisons across jurisdictions, institutions, legal traditions, or regulatory approaches.
Emerging Challenges
Analyzing new legal questions arising from technological, environmental, economic, political, and social transformation.
Analyzing new legal questions arising from technological, environmental, economic, political, and social transformation.
Approaches Welcomed
PLR welcomes doctrinal, normative, comparative, empirical, socio-legal, historical, philosophical, and interdisciplinary research. The method should be clearly stated, appropriate to the research question, and applied consistently.
Geographical Reach
The journal publishes studies concerning Indonesia and other jurisdictions and encourages regional, international, comparative, and transnational perspectives that enrich dialogue across legal systems.
Quality Expectations
✓ Original and unpublished scholarship
✓ Clear research problem and contribution
✓ Rigorous and transparent methodology
✓ Accurate use of legal authorities
✓ Critical engagement with scholarship
✓ Coherent argument and supported conclusion
Why Publish with PLR?
Every eligible manuscript undergoes editorial screening and double-blind peer review. Published articles are made immediately available through the journal's open-access platform under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, while authors retain copyright.
Double-Blind Review Immediate Open Access Author Copyright Retention CC BY-SA 4.0 Biannual Publication
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