Current Issue
Vol. 2025 No. 3: SoL, No. 3 (2025)
About Journal
Science of Law is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to exploring the dynamic relationships between law and the broader social sciences. It aims to provide a scholarly platform for critical, empirical, and theoretical contributions that analyze the law as both a product and a driver of social transformation. The journal encourages research that situates legal systems within the evolving economic, political, cultural, psychological, and environmental contexts of society.
The journal’s core mission is to deepen the understanding of how law functions in social life—shaping behavior, resolving conflicts, ensuring justice, and responding to global challenges. Science of Law promotes academic inquiry that integrates legal scholarship with social science methodologies to generate actionable knowledge and inform public policy, legal practice, and institutional development.
Science of Law invites original research articles, theoretical papers, policy analyses, and critical reviews across the full range of social science disciplines that intersect with law. Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
- Anthropology: Cultural interpretations of law, indigenous legal systems, ethnographic studies of justice, and legal pluralism.
- Business and Management: Corporate law, legal aspects of entrepreneurship, compliance and risk management, corporate governance, legal frameworks for innovation, and the role of law in ethical business practices.
- Communication and Media Studies: Legal discourse, representation of law in media, freedom of expression, and the influence of media on legal reforms.
- Development Studies: Law and development, international institutions, legal reform in transitional societies, and sustainable development governance.
- Economics: Law and economic development, regulatory compliance, market governance, taxation, property rights, and contract law from an economic perspective.
- Education: Legal pedagogy, citizenship education, education law, and access to legal literacy.
- Gender and Cultural Studies: Intersectionality in law, gender-based legal analysis, cultural rights, and identity politics in legal frameworks.
- Geography: Legal geographies, spatial governance, environmental justice, land use regulation, and jurisdictional boundaries.
- History: Legal historiography, evolution of legal institutions, comparative legal traditions, and socio-legal changes over time.
- Political Science: Legal governance, state power, legislative processes, constitutional frameworks, and the role of law in democratization and conflict resolution.
- Psychology: Legal decision-making, behavioral law, forensic psychology, witness credibility, and juror behavior.
- Sociology: Legal structures and institutions, social justice, deviance, criminology, and the sociology of law.
- Sustainability and Environmental Studies: Environmental law, climate justice, regulatory instruments for sustainability, natural resource governance, and the legal dimensions of global environmental policy.
- Philosophy: Jurisprudence, ethics, legal reasoning, concepts of justice and rights, and critical legal theory.
Science of Law promotes interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research that blends methods and perspectives from different social science domains. It welcomes scholarship that addresses contemporary global issues such as climate change, digital transformation, inequality, migration, artificial intelligence, and public health through a socio-legal lens. The journal is especially interested in research that advances sustainable development goals, equitable governance, and inclusive legal systems.