Aim & Scope

Journal of Contemporary Law and Society is an Open Access journal dedicated to publishing articles in the interplaying fields of law and society.

The justice system and defenses, condign punishment, or proportional justice. The self-defense, insanity, automatism, and mistake of fact, necessity, duress, and provocation, brainwashing defense, the archaic social background defense, the battered woman defense, the deprivation rage defense, the cultural defense, and religious defense.

Legal communications, such as legal norms, legal decisions, or legal doctrine: autopoiesis of the legal system. A communication is part of the system, the legal system operates with a specific binary code: law/non law or legal/illegal. Law and expectations. The legal system and norms and procedures, response to disappointments, mechanisms of change. Autopoietic legal theory and legal autonomy. It is the peculiar character of Autopoietic law ‘only the law can change the law”. The political system and the legal system. Reproducibility of legal system.

Cyber law or cyber security law. Cyber law, also known as internet law or digital law, legal regulations and frameworks governing digital activities, online communication, e-commerce, digital privacy, and the prevention and prosecution of cybercrimes. Cyber law and digital space's orderly and secure functioning.

Psychiatry and law interfaces; information disclosure, informed consent, data privacy, and liability in the event of treatment failures, to prevent misuse and to protect the rights of particularly vulnerable persons, autonomy, and the duty to protect freedom and a duty of care, as well as self-determination and protection. The legal measures for forensic psychiatry, digital mental health, protection of data privacy and data sovereignty

Poor and the fear of the applied law, access to justice, ignorance of the law, poor and property rights, labor rights, and law for mainstreaming the poor. Other aspects of law, some already included in the above are: disability, education, election law and the country, environmental law and policy, finance, accounting, and strategy, financial and monetary institutions, gender ,health, food, and drug ,immigration ,intellectual property, jurisprudence and legal theory, economics, political economy, religion, leadership, legal history, legal profession and ethics, Lgbtq+, negotiation and alternative dispute resolution, role of race ,law and tax, state and central government, tax law and policy, technology law and policy, trusts, estates, fiduciary law, contracts, comparative law, corporate and transactional law, courts, jurisdiction, and procedure.

We aim to publish robust scientific work; so methods should be carefully described and referred data properly cited. Literature reviews are accepted as long as they provide novelty, meaningful insights, originality and a clear contribution to the discourse. Case studies are also accepted as long as they contribute to the uses and improvements of the stakeholders and comprehension of issues of broader significance. Case reports are accepted when they contribute to a far reaching insight to an issue otherwise unlooked. All the submissions will be peer-reviewed.

Discussion and debate-focused short feature articles citing fresh new insights to the developments are also accepted; they would be either invited or could be considered upon discretion of the Editor(s).

 

(The text above is a copyrighted version and is a property of Shri Jayanta Bhattacharya, son of Late Shri Kamal Krishna Bhattacharya, of West Bengal, India and the Consulting Editor of the journal. Unauthorized uses without written permission can be violative of Indian law and the person or persons indulging in unauthorized uses can be challenged and prosecuted. Author acknowledges the various sources used by him to prepare this document)