Focus and Scope
JURISTA: Jurnal Hukum dan Keadilan is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal published by the Centre for Adat and Legal Studies of Aceh Province (CeFALSAP), Indonesia. The journal is dedicated to advancing original and critical legal scholarship concerning legal governance and access to justice in Islamic, commercial, and transnational economic law.
JURISTA aims to promote theoretical, doctrinal, comparative, and empirical legal research examining how legal principles, institutions, and regulatory frameworks govern economic relationships, protect legal rights, ensure institutional accountability, and facilitate access to justice in domestic and cross-border economic activities.
Focus and Scope
The journal focuses on Legal Governance and Access to Justice in Islamic, Commercial, and Transnational Economic Law, with particular emphasis on the interaction between Islamic legal principles, domestic commercial regulations, and international economic legal frameworks.
Within this central focus, JURISTA welcomes original research addressing:
- Islamic Economic Law and Governance: Islamic commercial jurisprudence (fiqh muamalah), Sharia-based contracts, Islamic banking and finance, Islamic social finance (zakat and waqf), Sharia compliance, and the legal governance of Islamic economic institutions.
- Commercial Law and Economic Regulation: Commercial contracts, corporate legal accountability, business transactions, consumer protection, competition law, financial regulation, digital commerce, financial technology, and legal remedies in commercial relationships.
- Transnational Economic Law and Governance: International trade and investment law, cross-border commercial transactions, international economic agreements, comparative economic regulation, regulatory cooperation, and the interaction between domestic and international economic legal frameworks.
- Legal Accountability and Access to Economic Justice: Regulatory accountability, protection of economic and commercial rights, judicial and non-judicial dispute resolution, commercial arbitration, investment dispute settlement, and access to effective legal remedies in Islamic, domestic, and transnational economic legal systems.
The journal particularly encourages research examining the interaction between state law, Islamic law, and customary legal norms where such interactions directly affect economic governance, commercial relationships, property rights, contractual obligations, or access to economic justice.
JURISTA welcomes submissions from scholars worldwide, including comparative and jurisdiction-specific studies that contribute to broader legal debates. Research focusing on Indonesia, Southeast Asia, or other jurisdictions should demonstrate original theoretical, doctrinal, comparative, or regulatory significance beyond a purely descriptive examination of local legal practices.
Research Approaches and Scholarly Contributions
JURISTA publishes original research articles and critical scholarly reviews employing doctrinal, normative, theoretical, comparative, and empirical socio-legal methodologies. Interdisciplinary approaches are welcomed where legal analysis remains central to the research.
All submissions must demonstrate a clearly defined legal research question, methodological rigour, critical engagement with relevant scholarly literature, and an original contribution to legal knowledge.
To maintain its specialised scholarly identity, JURISTA does not ordinarily consider manuscripts that fall outside its central focus or merely describe legislation, judicial decisions, commercial practices, or institutional activities without substantive critical legal analysis.
The journal prioritises scholarship that advances legal theory, regulatory governance, institutional accountability, and access to justice within Islamic, commercial, and transnational economic legal systems.
