LEXANTARA

LEXANTARA: Journal of Law, Business and Investment is an English-language scholarly journal with law as its primary discipline, published under Adhikara Publisher. It examines legal questions arising from business activity, investment and economic transformation, including the interaction between public regulation, private ordering, institutional design and dispute resolution. Every contribution must advance legal scholarship; business and investment identify the principal contexts of inquiry.

The journal places particular emphasis on emerging economies and the Global South, while welcoming scholarship from all jurisdictions. Indonesia and Southeast Asia serve as important sites of inquiry, rather than geographical limits. Contributions should explain how their findings inform wider legal debates, comparative understanding or institutional practice.

LEXANTARA welcomes doctrinal, comparative, empirical and theoretically informed interdisciplinary research. Economic, political and social analysis is encouraged when it advances a clearly identified legal question. The journal seeks to connect careful legal reasoning with credible evidence about how regulation and contracts operate in practice.

Its four interconnected areas are investment and industrial policy; contracts and business governance; investment in economic transitions; and dispute prevention and resolution. It welcomes research that examines the distribution of rights, risks, responsibilities and economic benefits among states, businesses, investors and affected communities. See Aims and Scopes.

Journal information

Full title	LEXANTARA: Journal of Law, Business and Investment
Publisher	Adhikara Publisher, Indonesia
Language	English
Frequency	Planned: two issues a year, June and December. The first issue date will be announced.
Access and licence	Immediate open access; authors retain copyright; CC BY 4.0
Peer review	Double-anonymous review by at least two independent external reviewers (see Peer Review Process)
Editorial team	Appointments will be announced on the Editorial Team page
Identifiers	eISSN not yet assigned; DOI registration not yet established
Submissions	Open. Submit through the online submission system; read the Instruction for Authors first.

Readership

The intended readership comprises legal scholars, researchers and postgraduate students; lawyers, arbitrators and mediators; legislators and regulators; investment and development institutions; corporate legal and compliance teams; and civil society organisations working on economic governance, environmental protection and community rights.

Article types

All limits below include the main text and footnotes, and exclude the abstract, bibliography and approved supplementary material. Authors must report each component separately. Moving essential argument into a supplement to evade the limit is not acceptable. Exceptions require advance editorial agreement; invitations do not waive review requirements.

Type	Normal length	Assessment
Original research article	7,000–10,000 words	Two independent external reviewers
Review or conceptual article	6,000–9,000 words	Two independent external reviewers
Case or legislation note	3,000–5,000 words	Two independent external reviewers
Book review	1,000–1,500 words	Editorial review; specialist advice as needed
Editorial or introduction	1,000–2,000 words	Editorial review, labelled accordingly
Response or scholarly comment	Normally 1,500–3,000 words	Editorial screening; external review where the comment advances substantial new research or technical claims

Original research must advance a legal argument through an appropriate method. Review articles must explain source selection and synthesis; conceptual articles must make an identifiable theoretical contribution. Case and legislation notes analyse significance rather than simply recount events. Book reviewers disclose relationships with the book’s authors, publisher and any review-copy arrangements. Each item’s assessment route is identified on its article page.

Open access statement

All published articles are freely available immediately upon publication. Reading and downloading do not require a subscription or payment. Reuse follows the CC BY 4.0 licence and the Journal Licensing Term. The journal’s author-side charges, if any, are disclosed separately under Article Processing Charge.

Journal policies

• Aims and Scopes
• Abstracting and Indexing
• Peer Review Process
• Publication Ethics
• Article Processing Charge
• Generative AI Policy
• All journal policies and instructions

Policy version: founding draft 2.2 (2 November 2026), pending formal adoption. LEXANTARA does not claim indexing, accreditation or COPE membership.