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Lexoria: Journal of Law & Justice Studies

A peer-reviewed journal advancing global legal scholarship—bridging legal theory, judicial practice, and regulatory developments across jurisdictions.

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1. About the Journal

Lexoria: Journal of Law & Justice Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to advancing research and scholarly discourse in the field of law. It serves as a global platform for academics, legal practitioners, policymakers, and students to explore and disseminate insights on legal theory, judicial practices, and regulatory developments across diverse legal systems. Lexoria promotes multidisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives to enhance understanding of law in a global context.

Lexoria welcomes doctrinal, comparative, socio-legal, empirical, and interdisciplinary work that demonstrates conceptual rigor and practical relevance.

2. Focus & Scope

The journal accommodates a wide range of topics in legal studies, including but not limited to:

  • Legal Theory & Philosophy — jurisprudence, justice, and fundamental legal principles across traditions.
  • Public & Constitutional Law — constitutional design, administrative law, state powers, and fundamental rights.
  • Private & Commercial Law — contracts, torts, civil law, trade, corporate and transnational business regulation.
  • Criminal Law & Criminology — criminal liability, procedure, penology, policing, and comparative criminal justice.
  • International Law & Human Rights — public/private international law, treaties, humanitarian law, and rights protection.
  • Technology Law & Innovation — AI governance, data protection, cybersecurity, platform regulation, fintech.
  • Environmental Law & Sustainability — climate regulation, biodiversity, ESG, and just transitions.
  • Labour & Employment Law — industrial relations, decent work, equality, and workplace regulation.
  • Health Law & Bioethics — healthcare regulation, pharmaceuticals, consent, and ethical frameworks.
  • Methods & Empirical Legal Studies — doctrinal analysis, comparative method, qualitative/quantitative approaches, mixed methods.

By publishing high-quality research across these areas, Lexoria seeks to enrich legal literature and foster evidence-based, policy-relevant debate in the international legal community.

3. Article Types

  • Original Research (max 15 pages) — doctrinal, comparative, or empirical studies.
  • Review Articles (max 20 pages) — systematic/scoping reviews and state-of-the-art syntheses.
  • Case Notes & Commentaries — focused analyses of landmark cases, statutes, or regulatory updates.
  • Practice & Policy Notes — insights for courts, agencies, and practitioners grounded in evidence.
  • Methods Notes / Datasets — legal research methods, instruments, and curated datasets.
Page limits exclude appendices and supplementary files hosted in repositories.

4. Editorial & Peer Review

  • Process: double-blind peer review with ≥ 2 independent reviewers.
  • Integrity: similarity screening via Turnitin/iThenticate; redundant publication and self-plagiarism are prohibited.
  • Ethics: socio-legal research involving human participants (e.g., interviews/surveys) must include ethics/consent statements and protect confidentiality.
  • Transparency: authors must provide CRediT roles, funding, conflict of interest, data availability, and (where applicable) preregistration.

See Publication Ethics, Open Access Policy, Archiving, and Author Fees for full policies.

5. Open Access & Licensing

Lexoria provides immediate open access to all content. Articles are published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), allowing sharing and adaptation with appropriate credit to the original work.

6. Archiving & Preservation

Long-term digital preservation is ensured through PKP PN/LOCKSS. Article metadata and full-text are interoperable and harvestable via OAI-PMH.

7. Data, Code & Materials

  • Deposit interview guides, coded corpora, legislation/case datasets, and analysis code (where legally/ethically possible) in trusted repositories (e.g., Zenodo, OSF, Figshare) with DOI/URL.
  • Cite datasets/software in the References using data/software citation formats.
  • For sensitive/confidential materials (e.g., identifiable transcripts), provide a restricted-access statement with justification and a repository record.

8. Indexing & Metadata

  • All accepted articles receive a Crossref DOI; DOI activation occurs before or at online publication.
  • Rich metadata (license, ORCID, ROR affiliations, funding, references, and data/software citations) are deposited to Crossref.
  • OAI-PMH base URL: https://journal.fajarpos.com/index/oai

9. Submission & Template

  1. Prepare your manuscript per the Author Guidelines (structured abstract, references with DOIs, CRediT, ethics, data availability).
  2. Use the official template (.docx) and ensure authorities, statutes, and cases are cited consistently.
  3. Register/Login to OJS and complete metadata (authors’ ORCID, affiliations with ROR, funding).
  4. Upload the manuscript, any figures/tables, and supplementary materials (e.g., datasets, instruments, approvals).

Download Template

Author Guidelines

Mirror (if OJS link is unavailable): Google Drive

10. Related Links

11. Contact

Editorial Office – Lexoria: Journal of Law & Justice Studies
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://journal.fajarpos.com/
Version: 2025-09. This page supersedes prior versions.