Focus and Scope

Journal of Indonesian Legal Studies (JILS) is a peer reviewed journal published biannual (May and November) by Postgraduate Program, Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNNES), Indonesia. JILS is intended to be the journal for publishing of results of research on law both empirical and normative study, especially in contemporary legal issues. The various topics but not limited to, criminal law, constitutional law, private law, economic law, human rights law, international law, tax law, Islamic law, customary law, commercial business law, environmental law, street law, legal education, maritime law, trade law, and many more in the framework of Indonesian legal systems and Indonesian legal studies.

 

SECTION POLICIES

Editorial         [  ] Open Submissions     [X] Indexed     [   ] Peer Reviewed

Articles           [X] Open Submissions    [X] Indexed     [X] Peer Reviewed

Book Review [X] Open Submissions    [X] Indexed     [   ] Peer Reviewed

 

PEER REVIEW PROCESS

Submitted manuscripts will be pre-reviewed by the editors, determining whether the manuscripts have conformed to Journal of Indonesian Legal Studies (JILS)’s submission guidelines. Manuscripts which have conformed to the journal’s style will be peer-reviewed. JILS is a double blind peer-reviewed journal which involves many reviewers of experts in relevant field of laws. Final decision of manuscript acceptance is solely decided by the editors according to reviewers' comment.

Plagiarism and self-plagiarism are not allowed. JILS uses plagiarism checker to screen articles for detecting plagiarism. Detection of overlapping and similar text is used there and so quotations and appropriate citations have to be used whenever required.