Global South Journal of Law and Society
Journal Initials: GSJLS
e-ISSN: xxxx-xxxx
DOI Prefix: 10.66277/gsjls by 
Publisher: Elkuator Research and Publication
Frequency: Biannual (June and December)
Access Model: Open Access Journal
Editor-in-Chief: Lukman Santoso
Citation Analysis: Google Scholar | Dimensions
The Global South Journal of Law and Society (GSJLS) is an international, peer-reviewed academic journal published and managed by Elkuator Research and Publication. The journal is produced in academic collaboration with IAIN Pontianak, which supports its scholarly activities but does not hold ownership or publishing rights. This collaboration reflects a shared commitment to advancing critical and interdisciplinary scholarship on the relationship between law, constitutional governance, policy, and society in the Global South. The journal provides a platform for scholars, researchers, and practitioners to publish original articles based on doctrinal, empirical, socio-legal, and interdisciplinary research that offer significant theoretical, methodological, or policy-oriented contributions to legal and societal studies. The GSJLS foregrounds perspectives from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and other underrepresented regions, aiming to challenge Eurocentric legal paradigms and promote context-sensitive, inclusive, and justice-oriented legal scholarship.
The GSJLS places particular emphasis on constitutionalism and state–society relations, living law and legal pluralism, governance and public policy, as well as empirical and socio-legal approaches that examine how law is experienced, contested, negotiated, and transformed in everyday social realities beyond formal legal texts. It encourages interdisciplinary dialogue across legal studies, sociology, political science, anthropology, development studies, and related fields. The scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to, law, society, and living law; constitutional law and state–society relations; legal pluralism and normative orders; governance, public policy, and regulation; access to justice and social inequality; law, technology, and digital society; law, environment, and climate justice; law, development, and political economy; and comparative and transnational legal studies. Manuscripts that fall outside the journal’s aims and scope will not be considered for peer review.
