About the Journal

 

Journal of Law and Public Policy Review (REPORT) is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal that publishes high-quality research on the interaction between law, public policy, governance, regulation, and institutional development. The journal provides an interdisciplinary platform for scholars, legal professionals, policymakers, public administrators, and researchers to examine how legal frameworks and public policies influence institutions, society, justice, and contemporary governance.

REPORT welcomes doctrinal, empirical, comparative, socio-legal, policy-oriented, and interdisciplinary studies addressing constitutional and administrative law, regulatory governance, public policy, institutional reform, access to justice, public administration, and emerging legal and policy challenges. The journal particularly values manuscripts that move beyond descriptive analysis and provide clear analytical, theoretical, comparative, institutional, or policy contributions.

The journal encourages contributions from diverse national and international contexts and seeks research that offers broader relevance for legal development, regulatory design, public-sector governance, institutional effectiveness, accountability, social justice, and sustainable public policy.

Journal Identity
Law  ·  Public Policy  ·  Governance  ·  Regulatory Reform
Advancing Law and Policy for Effective Governance

Focus and Scope

Journal of Law and Public Policy Review publishes original research, review articles, comparative studies, doctrinal analyses, empirical legal studies, socio-legal research, and policy-oriented contributions within the following principal areas:

1. Constitutional, Administrative and Regulatory Law
Constitutional law, administrative law, regulatory law, legislation, judicial review, legal institutions, public authority, rule of law, regulatory enforcement, legal reform, administrative accountability, and the design and implementation of legal frameworks.
2. Public Policy, Governance and Institutional Reform
Public policy formulation, implementation and evaluation, public administration, institutional reform, governance systems, decentralization, public-sector innovation, accountability, transparency, bureaucratic reform, government effectiveness, regulatory institutions, and policy coordination.
3. Law, Society and Justice
Human rights, access to justice, socio-legal studies, criminal justice policy, civil rights, legal culture, social justice, dispute resolution, legal institutions, law and society, community justice, and the social implications of legal and regulatory systems.
4. Emerging Regulation and Public Policy Challenges
Digital governance, artificial intelligence regulation, cybersecurity law, data governance, environmental and climate policy, economic regulation, maritime and natural-resource governance, health regulation, sustainable development policy, technology regulation, and other emerging legal and public policy challenges.
Interdisciplinary Studies: The journal welcomes interdisciplinary research involving law, public administration, political science, economics, sociology, technology, environmental studies, health, maritime governance, and related fields when the manuscript demonstrates a clear connection to law, regulation, public policy, governance, institutional reform, or justice.
Scope Note: Studies focused primarily on politics, business, education, technology, health, economics, environmental issues, or general social topics without a clear legal, regulatory, public-policy, governance, institutional, or justice dimension may be considered outside the scope of the journal.