About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Sriwijaya Law Review known as SLRev is an international journal published by Faculty of Law, Sriwijaya University, Indonesia. From the establishment SLRev has published a legal periodical publishing scholarly and authoritative articles on legal issues of current importance to both academic research and legal practice. SLRev has a national and international readership, and publishes refereed contributions from authors around the world (Southeast Asia, South Asia, Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe and Western Europe). The journal also publishes a review article (only for selected or invited authors) containing critical notices of recently published books.  

The journal aims to publish new work of the highest caliber across the full range of legal scholarships, which includes but not limited to works from the domains:

Law and Development in Asia
The development of law in the Asian region, especially with distinct Asian characteristics or complementing the development of law in other regions. The study of law and its development in Asian countries covers the development of law, especially environmental law, human rights, IPR, Islamic law, notary law, refugee law, Adat law, comparative law, international law, constitutional law, law of the sea, corporate social responsibility. Although the focus of writing received about law and development in Asia, but if there is a good quality scientific work and related to law and development, it will be considered as a good work having a chance for publication. The ideas of this research on related topics can be traced to the works of Helen Quane, Tim Lindsey, Nadisyah Hosen, Hsien-Li Tan, and published books or journal in Oxford University Press, Heinonline, Sciencedirect, Taylor & Francis, or other publishers

Law Enforcement
Law enforcement describes the individuals and agencies responsible for enforcing laws and maintaining public order and public safety. It includes prevention, detection, investigation of crime, apprehension and detention of individuals suspected of law, litigation, capital punishment, dispute settlement, corruption court, commercial court, religious court. The ideas of this research on related topics can be traced to the works of William A Schabas, Elies van Sliedregt, and published books or journal in Oxford University Press, Heinonline, Sciencedirect, Taylor & Francis, or other publishers

Legal Policy
Legal policy covers how the official state in making policies. It also includes the principles of the judges consider the law which should serve the public interest, fair and just, legislation, legal drafting, criminal justice system, democracy, local legislation, or a particular policy, Basic Law, international human rights standards, and established principles underlying the legal system. The ideas of this research on related topics can be traced to the works of Nick Ellison, Tim Lindsey, and published books in Sciencedirect, Taylor & Francis, or other publishers

Socio-Legal
Identification in socio-legal studies is not limited to text, but also deepening of the context, which includes all processes, for example from law making to implementation of law. This study applies social scientific perspectives to the study of law, including legal sociology, legal anthropology, legal history, psychology and law, the study of judicial politics, and comparative sciences. The ideas of this research on related topics can be traced to the works of David Nelken, Adriaan W. Bedner, Jacqueline VEL, and published books in Springer, Taylor & Francis, or other publishers

Principaly, the journal's editorial policy is to favour contributions which will be of interest to a wide cross-section of its readership - contributions which, if specialised, nevertheless serve to bring out matters of broader interest or importance within their specialisation. However, articles which are not included in the area of law and social sciences are not covered and out of the scope of this journal

Peer Review Process

Sriwijaya Law Review (SLRev) review process uses a double-blind review system. First, manuscript are read by editorial members (upon the field of specialization) to meet the SLRev's criteria. Then, the manuscript will be sent to at least two anonymous reviewers. Sometimes (if required) a third peer-reviewer is also needed for further recommendation. Reviewers' comments are then sent to the corresponding author for necessary actions and responses. Finally, the Editor shall inform the author of the results of the review as soon as possible, hopefully within sixty days.

The final decision of manuscript acceptance is made by Editor in Chief or Regional (Handling) Editor (together with Editorial Board if required) according to reviewers' critical comments. SLRev has four tipes of decisions:

• Accepted, as it is
• Accepted by Minor Revisions (let authors revised with stipulated time)
• Accepted by Major Revisions (let authors revised with stipulated time)
• Rejected (generally, on grounds of the outside of scope and aim, major technical description problems, lack of clarity of presentation)

Editor will also run a plagiarism check using Turnitin or Ithenticate for the submitted articles before sending it to the reviewers. If a manuscript has over 15% of similarity, we will send back the article to the author to be revised for the plagiarised contents. The journal is carried out by using Mendeley as a Tool Reference Manager and Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition (full note) as the style.

Publication Frequency

Sriwijaya Law Review (SSN: 2541-5298 | e-ISSN: 2541-6464).

Short journal title: SLRev

SLRev pubilcation is twice a year. For the year 2020, Volume 4, Issue 1 and 2 are scheduled for publication (January & July).

Sriwijaya Law Review is electronically published via journal website (http://journal.fh.unsri.ac.id/index.php/sriwijayalawreview/index).

The SLRev journal is published by Faculty of Law, Sriwijaya University 

Commencement of publication: January 2017

Open Access Policy

This journal 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. Articles are freely available to both subscribers and the wider public with permitted reuse.

All articles published Open Access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.  We are continuously working with our author communities to select the best choice of license options: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)

Authors and readers can copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, as well as remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, but they must give appropriate credit (cite to the article or content), provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. If you remix, transform or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

The Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that if accepted for publication, copyright of the article shall be assigned to Sriwijaya Law Review and Faculty of Law Sriwijaya University as the publisher of the journal.

Sponsors

The South Sumatra Government; The Palembang Municipality Government; The Sriwijaya Law Alumni;  Faculty of Law, Hasanuddin University, Faculty of Law, University of Indonesia; Faculty of Law, University of Washington, School of Law; Fakulti Undang-Undang, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Private Institutions and other non-binding sponsors.

• The Government of South Sumatra
• The Palembang Municipality Government
• The Sriwijaya Law Alumni
• Faculty of Law, Hasanuddin University
• Faculty of Law, University of Indonesia
• Faculty of Law, Lampung University
• University of Washington, School of Law
• Fakulti Undang-Undang, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Journal History

The Sriwijaya Law Review (SLRev) is an international journal published by the Faculty of Law, Universitas Sriwijaya (FH UNSRI). The idea of the establishment of the journal derived from the initiative from  the Dean of Law Faculty, Dr. Febrian, SH.,MS to the Head of Quality Assurance of Faculty of Law (UPM FH) headed by Dr. Hj. Annalisa Yahanan, SH.,M.Hum and Nurhidayatuloh, SHI., S.Pd., SH., LL.M., MH., MHI as the secretary. Then, QAU organized a workshop regarding to the establishing of international e-journal. The participants to the workshop were from the Constitutional Law Departement, Administrative Law Departement, Private Law Departement, Criminal Law Departement and International Law Departement within the Faculty of Law. The outcome of the workshop was formulated the editorial board of the journal where Dr. H. Achmad Romsan, SH., MH., LL.M was appointed as the Editor in Chief and Nurhidayatuloh, SHI., S.Pd., SH., LL.M., MH., MHI as the Managing Editor. Since the journal is an international journal, the editorial board members are from the Faculty of Laws in and abroad, such as Malaysia and Europe.  Under the good cooperation between the Faculty of Law Universitas Sriwijaya with stakeholders, on the 31^st January 2017 the e-journal version of the Sriwijaya Law Review eventually launched. The event is simultaneously taken as the birth of SLRev.