Call for Papers: Brawijaya Law Journal (Scopus, Q2), Legal Architectures for Climate Action and Marine Protection

The Brawijaya Law Journal (BLJ): Journal of Legal Studies is an international journal established by the Faculty of Law, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia. It is an open access, double peer-reviewed e-journal that aims to offer an international scientific platform for cross-border legal research in government regulation and civil rights protection.

The journal publishes two issues per year, in April and October. Its scope covers civil law, criminal law, constitutional and administrative law, international law, legal pluralism governance, and other contemporary issues in legal scholarship.

Indexing and metrics (verified at Scimago): ISSN 2356-4512 and 2503-0841; Scopus coverage 2022 to 2025; SJR 2025: 0.424, Quartile Q2 in Law (up from Q3 in 2024); H-Index 4.

The Brawijaya Law Journal invites original manuscripts under the theme "Legal Architectures for Climate Action and Marine Protection: Rethinking Governance, Responsibility, and Justice".

The call was published by the journal on 19 June 2026.

The journal frames the call as follows: climate change and marine environmental degradation have become two of the most urgent challenges of our time. Rising sea levels, coastal erosion, marine pollution, biodiversity loss, unsustainable resource exploitation, and climate-related disasters increasingly affect communities, ecosystems, and state governance. These challenges require not only scientific and policy responses, but also strong, adaptive, and justice-oriented legal frameworks.

The special theme seeks to explore how law can contribute to climate action and marine protection through effective governance, institutional accountability, environmental justice, and sustainable development.

The call welcomes critical, comparative, interdisciplinary, and reform-oriented legal scholarship addressing the relationship between:

• Climate change
• Ocean governance
• Marine environmental protection
• The rights of affected communities

The journal invites scholars, researchers, legal practitioners, policymakers, and postgraduate students to submit original manuscripts.

There is no charge at any stage. Per the journal's official APC policy:

• Article Submission: 0.00 (USD) — authors are not required to pay a submission fee to contribute to review costs
• Article Publication Charges (APCs): 0.00 (USD)

Libraries and individuals can read and download any full-text article free of charge.

Manuscripts are submitted through the journal's online submission system, linked below. Authors should follow the journal's author guidelines before submitting.

The journal's call does not state a submission deadline, so submissions appear to be open until the themed issue is filled. Given that BLJ publishes in April and October, authors targeting a particular issue should submit well ahead and may wish to confirm timing with the editors.

The journal's plagiarism policy is strict: plagiarism and self-plagiarism are not allowed. Authors should ensure they have written entirely original work, and where the work or words of others have been used, these must be appropriately cited or quoted.

An author should not publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal, and submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently is not permitted.