Article Type

Manuscript Types & Scientific Article Requirements

Article Types

Sinergi International Journal of Law prioritizes original research that demonstrates clear scholarly novelty, methodological rigor, and a substantive contribution to constitutional law, administrative law, criminal law, civil law, business and commercial law, international law, human rights, environmental law, technology and cyber law, dispute resolution, legal governance, contemporary legal reform, and related fields.

ORIGINAL RESEARCH PRIORITY LEGAL NOVELTY REQUIRED NON-RESEARCH TYPES LIMITED

The journal gives priority to original research articles. Review articles, legal case studies, and short communications are accepted selectively when they are strongly aligned with the journal's Focus and Scope and provide clear doctrinal, comparative, empirical, regulatory, judicial, theoretical, or policy contributions to legal scholarship.

Core Scientific Requirements

Regardless of manuscript type, articles should demonstrate the following core elements:

✓ Clear legal problem and scholarly significance ✓ Adequate state of the art and legal scholarship
✓ Explicit research gap / novelty justification ✓ Clearly stated research objective
✓ Appropriate doctrinal, comparative, empirical, socio-legal, or normative method ✓ Legal analysis and conclusion supported by authoritative sources and evidence
Editorial Priority: Manuscripts without a clear state of the art, legal research gap or justification of novelty, explicit research objective, appropriate legal methodology, and substantive legal analysis may receive lower editorial priority or be returned before peer review.
1 Original Research Article PRIMARY TYPE

Original Research Articles are the primary and preferred manuscript type. They must report original legal analysis or empirical findings derived from a systematic research process and demonstrate a clear contribution to legal theory, doctrine, jurisprudence, regulation, legal institutions, governance, or legal policy.

Required characteristics:

  • Relevant legal, regulatory, judicial, institutional, social, economic, or policy background and clearly defined legal problem;
  • Adequate review of current legal scholarship, jurisprudence, regulations, international instruments, or state of the art;
  • Explicit identification of the research gap;
  • Clear justification of legal novelty or scholarly contribution;
  • Explicit research objective(s) or research question(s);
  • Appropriate and sufficiently described doctrinal, normative, comparative, socio-legal, empirical legal, case-law, historical, legislative, or interdisciplinary legal method;
  • Clear identification of relevant statutes, regulations, judicial decisions, treaties, legal doctrines, policy documents, datasets, interviews, or other legal sources where applicable;
  • Critical and systematic interpretation of primary legal authorities and relevant secondary scholarship;
  • Clear presentation of findings supported by authoritative legal sources, case law, empirical evidence, comparative materials, or policy evidence;
  • Critical comparison with relevant legal doctrines, scholarly debates, judicial interpretations, or regulatory approaches; and
  • Conclusion that directly responds to the research objective and explains relevant doctrinal, institutional, judicial, regulatory, policy, or reform implications.
Recommended Structure:
Introduction → Methods / Legal Approach → Results / Legal Analysis → Discussion → Conclusion → Declarations → References
2 Review Article SELECTIVE

Review Articles are considered selectively and must provide a comprehensive, critical, and original synthesis of a clearly defined body of legal scholarship concerning constitutional law, administrative law, criminal law, civil law, business law, international law, human rights, environmental law, technology law, dispute resolution, or related fields.

A high-quality review article should:

  • Present a clearly defined legal review question or analytical objective;
  • Explain the literature, legal-source, and case-selection approach;
  • Use authoritative, relevant, and sufficiently current legal references;
  • Critically compare previous legal doctrines, jurisprudence, statutory interpretations, regulatory approaches, comparative legal systems, and scholarly positions;
  • Identify doctrinal inconsistencies, regulatory gaps, conflicting judicial interpretations, implementation challenges, emerging legal issues, and research gaps;
  • Provide original legal analysis or synthesis by the authors; and
  • Develop a research agenda, legal framework, doctrinal synthesis, comparative model, policy recommendation framework, or substantive conclusion.
Not Acceptable: A literature review that only summarizes statutes, regulations, court decisions, legal doctrines, or previous publications without critical legal analysis, synthesis, comparison, or an original scholarly contribution.
3 Legal Case Study LIMITED

Legal Case Studies are considered when the case provides significant doctrinal, judicial, regulatory, institutional, comparative, social, or policy relevance and offers transferable insight for legal scholarship or practice.

A Legal Case Study must include:

✓ Clear legal research or analytical objective ✓ Case-selection and legal significance
✓ Doctrinal, case-law, comparative, or socio-legal analysis ✓ Critical evaluation of legal reasoning or implementation
✓ Comparison with relevant law, jurisprudence, and scholarship ✓ Clear doctrinal, judicial, regulatory, or policy contribution
Not Acceptable: Purely descriptive summaries of court decisions, disputes, statutes, regulatory cases, or legal events without a clear research objective, systematic legal analysis, comparison with relevant authorities, and scholarly contribution.
4 Short Communication LIMITED

A Short Communication presents concise but important original legal findings, emerging judicial developments, new regulatory issues, comparative legal insights, technology-related legal challenges, human-rights developments, or timely legal-policy analysis relevant to the journal's scope.

Although shorter than a full Original Research Article, a Short Communication must still contain sufficient scholarly substance and demonstrate a clear contribution to legal knowledge or practice.

Minimum Scholarly Elements:
Objective Legal Method Legal Findings Legal Analysis Conclusion

Manuscript Type Priority

Manuscript Type Journal Priority Main Requirement
Original Research Article HIGH Original legal analysis + state of the art + research gap + novelty + authoritative sources
Review Article SELECTIVE Comprehensive review + authoritative legal sources + critical synthesis + original analysis
Legal Case Study LIMITED Objective + case significance + legal method + critical evaluation + scholarly contribution
Short Communication LIMITED Concise but complete legal evidence, analysis, novelty, and policy or doctrinal relevance

Manuscripts Not Considered

  • Purely descriptive legal articles without substantive legal analysis;
  • Personal legal opinions or advocacy pieces without a clear scholarly method and evidence base;
  • Literature summaries without critical legal synthesis;
  • Articles that only reproduce or paraphrase statutes, regulations, treaties, or legal provisions without analytical interpretation;
  • Court-decision summaries without analysis of legal reasoning, doctrine, precedential significance, or broader implications;
  • Normative legal studies without clearly explained legal method, source selection, interpretation, and analytical framework;
  • Comparative-law studies that merely describe different legal systems without systematic comparison and explanatory analysis;
  • Legal-policy articles that make recommendations without adequate doctrinal, empirical, comparative, or regulatory evidence;
  • Empirical legal studies without transparent sampling, data collection, analysis, and connection to relevant legal questions;
  • Case studies of disputes or legal institutions without clear legal significance, methodological analysis, and transferable scholarly insight;
  • Conference abstracts submitted without substantial development;
  • Articles outside the journal's Focus and Scope;
  • Previously published manuscripts; and
  • Manuscripts simultaneously submitted to another publication.
Editorial Principle

The journal prioritizes original legal research that advances legal doctrine, jurisprudence, comparative law, regulatory understanding, and evidence-based legal reform. Non-original research formats are considered selectively and must demonstrate clear scholarly objectives, methodological rigor, analytical depth, authoritative use of legal sources, originality, meaningful doctrinal or policy implications, and strong alignment with the journal's Focus and Scope.