FOCUS AND SCOPE

LEXARA: Journal of Law and Legal Studies is an academic journal specifically focused on Legal Science and Legal Studies. The journal publishes research in which law constitutes the principal object of inquiry, including the analysis of legal norms, legal doctrines, legislation, judicial decisions, legal institutions, law enforcement, legal policy, legal systems, and legal reform.

The journal's principal areas of study are:

1. Public Law, including Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, State Institutional Law, Election Law, and Human Rights Law.
2. Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, including substantive Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Law of Evidence, Sentencing and Penal Law, and Criminal Law Policy.
3. Private and Economic Law, including Civil Law, Family and Inheritance Law, Commercial and Corporate Law, Contract Law, Labour Law, Consumer Protection, Intellectual Property Law, and Business Regulation.
4. International and Comparative Law, including Public International Law, Private International Law, Comparative Law, Transnational Law, and comparative studies of national legal systems.
5. Specialised and Emerging Fields of Law, including Environmental Law, Natural Resources and Agrarian Law, Maritime Law, Health Law, Islamic Law, Cyber Law, Data Protection Law, Artificial Intelligence Regulation, and other developing legal fields insofar as the research principally addresses legal questions.
6. Legal Theory and Legal Development, including Jurisprudence, Philosophy of Law, Sociology of Law, Anthropology of Law, Legal History, Legislative Studies, Judicial Studies, Legal Policy, Access to Justice, and Law Reform.

LEXARA accepts normative, doctrinal, statutory, conceptual, case-based, comparative, historical, philosophical, empirical legal, and socio-legal research. Interdisciplinary methods may be employed only when they are used to examine a clearly defined legal problem.

Scope Limitation

LEXARA does not publish studies whose principal object falls exclusively within political science, sociology, criminology, economics, public administration, education, technology, health sciences, or other non-legal disciplines without a substantial legal research question. Studies involving such disciplines are considered only when legal norms, legal institutions, legal responsibility, legal policy, regulation, judicial practice, or the operation of law constitute the central analytical focus.

Accordingly, the journal's disciplinary identity remains within Ilmu Hukum/Legal Science, while interdisciplinary perspectives serve as supporting approaches rather than independent objects of publication.