Aims and Scope

 

Aim

Reciprocal: Interlegality Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to publishing original and high-quality research on the interdisciplinary study of legal issues, exploring the dynamics of interactions between the state and societies, particularly within Indonesian contexts. The journal promotes a critical perspectives on interlegality phenomena in Indonesia, highlighting critically examining how state law interacts, competes, and co-evolves with non-state normative orders, including customary (adat), political, religious, and transnational legal frameworks. The journal also welcomes original scholarly contributions from other jurisdictions engaging with issues of legal pluralism.

Scope

The journal welcomes original and critical research from scholars and practitioners employing interdisciplinary, comparative, empirical, case study and socio-legal approaches, with particular attention to: 1) Interlegality and Legal Pluralism Studies; 2) Law and Society (Socio-Legal and Critical Legal Approaches); 3) Customary (Adat) and Indeginous Legal Orders; 4) Agrarian, Enviromental, and Natural Resource Law in Plural Regimes; 5) Law, Politics, and Regulatory Governance; 6) Constitutionalism, Governance, and Administrative Power in Plural System; 7) Human Rights, Access to Justice, and Legal Inequality; 8) Law and Religion (including Islamic Legal Traditions in plural context); 9) Economic Law and Development in Hybrid Legal Systems; 10) Health, Bioethics, and Medical Law; and 11) Law and Digital Technology, as well as other emerging legal issues shaping legal practices in societies. By integrating theory with practice, Reciprocal: Interlegality Review provides a forum for academic advancement and engagement with the evolving legal landscape, especially in relation to contemporary issues of legal pluralism within broader global discourse.