Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Focus of Jurnal Hukum Mimbar Justitia has a main focus on the publication of scientific articles related to various aspects of law, both in national and international contexts. The journal aims to be a platform for academics, legal practitioners, and researchers to share knowledge, research results, and current thinking in various fields of law.

Scope of Jurnal Hukum Mimbar JustitiaJournal:

The scope of Mimbar Justitia Law Journal includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:

  1. Constitutional Law: Articles that discuss legal aspects of constitutions, systems of government, division of powers, human rights, as well as other related topics in the context of specific countries and legal systems.

  2. Criminal Law: Topics related to criminal law, including but not limited to criminal theory, crime, criminal procedure, criminal justice, and current crime issues.

  3. Civil Law: Articles that discuss civil law in various contexts, such as family law, inheritance law, contract law, property law, and other civil disputes.

  4. Business and Economic Law: This scope includes articles that discuss legal aspects related to the world of business and economics, including competition law, business contract law, corporate law, and economic regulation.

  5. International Law: Articles that discuss international law, including public international law, private international law, international organisations, international trade, and other global issues.

  6. Environmental Law: This covers articles that address legal issues relating to environmental conservation, natural resource protection, environmental law, and corporate social responsibility in an environmental context.

  7. Islamic Law: Articles that discuss aspects of Islamic law in various contexts, including Islamic family law, sharia, Islamic economic law, and Islamic legal thought.

  8. Customary Law: Articles that discuss customary law in the context of specific cultures and societies, including traditional legal systems, customs, and the protection of customary rights.

  9. Health Law: This scope includes articles that address legal aspects related to the field of health, including medical law, medical ethics, pharmaceutical regulation, and patient rights and obligations.

  10. Law of the Sea: Articles that discuss the law of the sea, including fisheries law, marine transport law, international conventions on the law of the sea, and other maritime law issues.

  11. Space Law: This scope includes articles that discuss legal aspects relating to space exploration, space exploration, regulation of space activities, and the rights and obligations of states in space.

The journal also welcomes articles that discuss other topics related to legal science at large. The approach used in analysing the articles is Juridical Normative and Juridical Sociology, to provide comprehensive and in-depth insight into the topics discussed.

 

 

Section Policies

Artikel Penelitian

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Artikel Ulasan

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Resensi Buku

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

The manuscript revie process in Jurnal Hukum Mimbar Justitia (JHMJ) uses a double-blind review system:

    1. Each article submitted to the editorial office will be selected through an Initial Review process by the Editorial Board in accordance with the field of specialization to ensure that it meets the JHMJ criteria.

    2. Manuscripts will be sent to two anonymous reviewers. If required, a third reviewer may be involved for further recommendations. Comments from the reviewers will then be forwarded to the corresponding author for follow-up.

    3. The Editor-in-Chief will notify the authors as soon as possible, hopefully within four weeks.The final decision on acceptance of the manuscript is made by the Editor-in-Chief (together with the Editorial Board if necessary) based on the critical comments of the reviewers. JHMJ has four types of decisions:

    • Accepted, as is;

    • Accepted with Minor Revisions (let the writer revise with a specified time);

    • Accepted with Major Revisions (let the writer revise within the specified time);

    • Rejected (generally, for reasons beyond scope and purpose, major technical description issues, lack of clarity of presentation).

In reviewing the submitted articles, reviewers will refer to the assessment guidelines provided by the Editorial Board. The assessment format includes the originality of the idea, the accuracy of the theory used in analyzing the problem, and the writing method. The editor will also check for plagiarism using Turnitin or Ithenticate for incoming articles before they are sent to reviewers. If a manuscript has more than 20% similarity, we will send the article back to the author for revision of the plagiarized content. 

 

Open Access Policy

This Journal Hukum Mimbar Justitia provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Publication Ethics

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed Jurnal Hukum Mimbar Justitia is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher and the society. This statement is based on COPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Fakultas Hukum Universitas Suryakancana as the publisher of Jurnal Hukum Mimbar Justitia, takes the duty of guardianship over all stages of publishing very seriously and we recognise our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprints or other commercial income has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. In addition, Fakultas Hukum Universitas Suryakancana  and the Editorial Board will assist in communication with other journals and/or publishers if this is useful and necessary.

The Editor in Chief of Jurnal Hukum Mimbar Justitia is responsible for deciding which articles will be published. The validity of the work concerned and its importance to researchers and readers should always drive the decision. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by applicable legal requirements regarding defamation, copyright infringement and plagiarism. Editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making these decisions.

Fair play

An editor at any time evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality

The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Promptness

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Confidentiality

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

Standards of Objectivity

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Duties of Authors

Reporting Standards

Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.

Data Access and Retention

Authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data (consistent with the ALPSP-STM Statement on Data and Databases), if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

Originality and Plagiarism

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

Multiple, Redundant or Consurrent Publication

An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Authorship of the Paper

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and Confilcts of Interest

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental Errors in Published Works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper. 

 

Copyright & License

Copyright

Authors who publish this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

  2. Authors can separately make additional contractual arrangements for non-exclusive distribution published by the journal (e.g., publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

  3. Authors are allowed and encouraged to send their work via online (e.g., in the institutional repositories or their website) after published by the journal

What are my rights as author?

It is important to check the policy for the journal to which you are submitting or publishing to establish your rights as Author. Jurnal Hukum Mimbar Justitia standard policies allow the following re-use rights:

  1. You may do whatever you wish with the version of the article you submitted to the journal.

  2. Once the article has been accepted for publication, you may post the accepted version of the article on your own personal website, your department's website, or the repository of your institution without any restrictions.
  3. You may not post the accepted version of the article in any repository other than those listed above (i.e., you may not deposit in the repository of another institution or a subject-matter repository) until 12 months after publication of the article in the journal.

  4. You may use the published article for your own teaching needs or to supply on an individual basis to research colleagues, provided that such supply is not for commercial purposes.

  5. You may use the article in a book authored or edited by you at any time after publication in the journal. This does not apply to books where you are contributing a chapter to a book authored or edited by someone else.

  6. You may not post the published article on a website or in a repository without permission from Jurnal Hukum Mimbar Justitia.

  7. When posting or reusing the article, please provide a link to the published version of the article on Jurnal Hukum Mimbar Justitia.

License

Jurnal Hukum Mimbar Justitia is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- 4.0 International Public License (CC - BY 4.0).