JCLS adopts the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) framework, heavily influenced by Lawrence M. Friedman’s theory of the three components of the legal system: structure, substance, and legal culture. The journal provides a platform for scholars to dissect, critique, and reconstruct the law as a non-neutral socio-political institution. We invite original research that challenges mainstream legal discourse—such as legal formalism, positivism, and liberal legalism—through interdisciplinary lenses, including:

1.  Sociology of Law and Political Economy.
2.  Feminist Jurisprudence and Queer Legal Theory.
3.  Critical Race Theory and Post-colonial Studies.
4.  Legal Humanities and Political Philosophy

Including common scope:

✓ Criminal Law; Civil Law;

✓ International Law; Constitutional Law;

✓ Administrative Law;

✓ Agrarian Law Criminal Procedural Law Civil Procedural Law Constitutional Law Islamic Law; 

✓ Akhwalus Syakhsyiyah Law;

✓ Munakahat Law;

✓ Faraidh/Mawaris Law;

✓ Army/Military Law; 

✓ Sea Law;

✓ Economic Law; Medical Law; Custom Law;

✓ Environmental Law, etc.