Focus and Scope

Focus

Human Rights et Justicia is an international peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to publishing high-quality scholarly research on human rights and justice within evolving legal systems. The journal approaches law as a dynamic social, institutional, and transnational phenomenon shaped by the interaction between legal norms, governance structures, judicial practices, and broader socio-political contexts.

The journal particularly emphasizes comparative human rights law, socio-legal studies, and transnational justice studies, examining how human rights principles are interpreted, negotiated, and implemented across diverse legal traditions and institutional settings. Special attention is given to scholarship that explores human rights protection within the Global South, including the interaction between domestic legal systems, international law, and normative legal traditions such as Islamic law and customary law.

By promoting comparative and interdisciplinary scholarship, Human Rights et Justicia aims to contribute to global academic debates on constitutionalism, legal pluralism, human rights governance, and the transformation of justice in increasingly interconnected societies.

Scope

Human Rights et Justicia welcomes original research articles and conceptual papers employing comparative, socio-legal, empirical, and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of human rights and justice. The journal’s scope includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:

  1. Comparative Human Rights Law and Global South Perspectives (Comparative studies on the development and implementation of human rights principles across diverse legal systems, particularly in Global South contexts).

  2. Constitutionalism, Governance, and Human Rights Protection (Research examining the relationship between constitutional frameworks, governance structures, and the protection of fundamental rights).

  3. Law, Society, and Access to Justice (Socio-legal studies exploring how legal institutions, social structures, and public policies influence access to justice).

  4. Legal Pluralism and Normative Legal Traditions (Analyses of the interaction between state law, customary law, religious law, and other normative legal systems in shaping justice practices.)

  5. Islamic Law, Ethics, and Human Rights Discourses (Studies examining the contribution of Islamic legal thought and ethics to contemporary debates on human rights and justice).

  6. Human Rights Governance and Legal Institutions (Research on the role of courts, state institutions, and international organizations in shaping human rights governance).

  7. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights and Justice Studies (Scholarship integrating legal analysis with perspectives from social sciences, political studies, anthropology, and public policy in understanding human rights protection.)