Focus & Scope

Aims

Damhil Law Journal (DLJ) is an open access, peer-reviewed journal published by the Master of Laws Program, Universitas Negeri Gorontalo. It provides a national and international platform for research on Indonesian law and its implementation in a developing country context, with attention to local and regional experience.

Objectives

  1. To publish original legal research that analyzes legal rules, court decisions, and legal practice in Indonesia.
  2. To examine how law responds to social change, including family and community life, and to new technology and markets.
  3. To connect doctrinal analysis with field evidence from local institutions and communities.
  4. To support legal reform and legal certainty through scholarly and practical recommendations.

Focus

The journal focuses on the application and reform of Indonesian law in practice: how legislation, court decisions, and institutions deal with family life, civil transactions, new technologies, natural resources, and law enforcement.

Scope

DLJ welcomes doctrinal, empirical, and comparative articles, including but not limited to:

  1. Family, marriage, and child protection law: marriage law, child marriage and dispensation, children’s legal status, civil registration, and Islamic family law.
  2. Civil law and civil procedure: contracts, obligations, judicial discretion, and the principles applied by judges.
  3. Law and digital transformation: blockchain, digital assets and receivables, e-commerce, and digital sharia practices such as online zakat.
  4. Private international law and cross-border business: choice of law, party autonomy, and international transactions.
  5. Environmental and climate law: carbon trading, accountability of climate instruments, and natural resource governance.
  6. Land and agrarian law: land ownership, certification, and disputes at village and community level.
  7. Criminal law and law enforcement: effectiveness and accountability of law enforcement institutions.
  8. Islamic law and legal pluralism: the relationship between state law, Islamic law, and customary law.
  9. Constitutional and administrative law, and other contemporary issues in legal scholarship.