Ownership & Management

The Indonesian State Law Review (ISLRev) is published by the Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNNES), Semarang, Indonesia. The journal was established in 2018 and is managed by the Department of Administrative and Constitutional Law, Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang. The ownership of the journal is vested in Universitas Negeri Semarang, while the Faculty of Law is responsible for its publication and institutional management.

The Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang, provides institutional support for the management and sustainability of the journal, including the resources, facilities, and publishing infrastructure required for editorial and publishing activities. The journal is managed by an Editorial Team consisting of the Editor-in-Chief, Managing Editor, Board of Editors, and other editorial support personnel. The Editorial Team is responsible for the journal's day-to-day editorial operations and publication processes.

The Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Team oversee the editorial process, including initial manuscript assessment, coordination of peer review, editorial evaluation, revision, and publication. The journal operates within the institutional framework of the Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang, while maintaining the professional responsibilities and decision-making authority of its editorial team.

Universitas Negeri Semarang provides institutional and administrative support for the journal's publishing infrastructure and services as part of its academic publishing activities. Such support is intended to ensure the continuity, accessibility, sustainability, and quality of the journal's scholarly publications.

The journal is not affiliated with any external commercial organization or private publishing company unless otherwise formally disclosed by the publisher.

The Indonesian State Law Review is committed to providing clear and transparent information to authors, reviewers, editors, readers, and other stakeholders regarding the journal's ownership, management structure, and editorial governance.

Furthermore, the journal adheres to the principles of good scholarly publishing concerning the relationship between journal editors and owners, particularly the principle of editorial independence. The Editor-in-Chief, the Faculty of Law, and Universitas Negeri Semarang share the objective of maintaining the journal's academic quality, integrity, and reputation while recognizing their respective roles and responsibilities.

The Editor-in-Chief is primarily responsible for overseeing the editorial process, maintaining the academic quality and integrity of published articles, ensuring the fairness and consistency of peer review, and safeguarding the integrity of the journal's editorial policies and procedures.

The Faculty of Law and Universitas Negeri Semarang support the journal's academic mission, core values, and publishing policies. Their responsibilities include institutional governance, administrative oversight, and the provision of resources and infrastructure necessary for the journal's operation and long-term sustainability.

The relationship between the Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang, and the Editor-in-Chief is based on mutual respect, professional integrity, transparency, and recognition of their respective authority and responsibilities.

The Editor-in-Chief has the final authority over the journal's editorial content, a principle commonly referred to as editorial independence. Editorial content includes research articles, review articles, case studies, book reviews, editorials, and other scholarly materials published by the journal, as well as decisions concerning the selection, editing, and timing of publication.

The Faculty of Law and Universitas Negeri Semarang do not interfere in the assessment, selection, peer review, revision, or editing of individual manuscripts, either directly or indirectly through pressure that could compromise editorial independence. Editorial decisions are made independently by the Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Team based on academic merit, originality, methodological rigor, legal and scholarly significance, relevance to the journal's focus and scope, and the outcomes of the peer-review process.

Through this governance framework, the Indonesian State Law Review seeks to maintain a transparent, accountable, and professionally independent editorial process while fulfilling its mission to advance scholarly discourse on constitutional law, administrative law, and other legal issues relevant to the functioning of the state and its legal system.