About the Journal

Aksen Journal of Contemporary Family Law

Published by AKSEN – Akademika Semesta Nusantara Foundation

Aksen Journal of Contemporary Family Law is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by AKSEN (Akademika Semesta Nusantara Foundation). The journal provides a scholarly forum for critical, comparative, interdisciplinary, and socio-legal inquiry into contemporary developments in family law and family-related legal issues.

The journal welcomes original research articles that examine family law from diverse legal traditions, jurisdictions, and disciplinary perspectives. Its scope includes marriage and divorce, matrimonial property, child custody and protection, maintenance, adoption, guardianship, inheritance, reproductive rights, gender and family justice, domestic relations, dispute resolution, and other emerging issues affecting families in contemporary societies.

Scholarly Orientation

Particular attention is given to the interaction between state law, religious law, customary law, international human rights norms, and living legal practices. The journal encourages contributions employing doctrinal, comparative, socio-legal, empirical, historical, anthropological, and interdisciplinary approaches to understand how family law responds to social transformation and contemporary legal challenges.

With a commitment to academic rigor and intellectual diversity, Aksen Journal of Contemporary Family Law seeks to connect legal doctrine with the lived realities of families and to promote scholarly dialogue among academics, researchers, legal practitioners, policymakers, and other scholars concerned with the development of family law at national, regional, and global levels.

Contemporary Family Law • Legal Pluralism • Justice • Social Transformation

Contribute to AJCFL

Advancing Contemporary Scholarship in Family Law

Aksen Journal of Contemporary Family Law (AJCFL) welcomes original and intellectually rigorous scholarship that contributes to the theoretical development and practical understanding of contemporary family law. The journal provides an academic platform for scholars, researchers, legal practitioners, and other professionals to engage critically with changing family relations and the legal, social, religious, and institutional frameworks that govern them.

AJCFL welcomes submissions in the form of:

◆  Original Research Articles
◆  Conceptual Papers
◆  Case Analyses
◆  Critical Review Articles

Submissions may address established and emerging areas of family law, including marriage and divorce, matrimonial property, child custody and protection, maintenance, adoption, guardianship, inheritance and succession, reproductive rights, gender and family justice, domestic relations, family dispute resolution, and the legal implications of changing forms of family and intimate relationships.

AJCFL particularly encourages scholarship that explores family law through comparative, interdisciplinary, and socio-legal perspectives. Studies examining the interaction of state law, religious law, customary law, international human rights norms, and living legal practices are especially welcomed, as are contributions addressing the impact of globalization, migration, technology, demographic change, and social transformation on families and family regulation.

Diverse Approaches, Shared Scholarly Commitment

The journal welcomes doctrinal, empirical, comparative, historical, socio-legal, anthropological, and interdisciplinary research. Regardless of methodological orientation, manuscripts should demonstrate a clear research problem, engagement with relevant scholarship, methodological or analytical rigor, and an identifiable contribution to contemporary family law discourse.

While providing space for scholarship arising from particular national and local legal contexts, AJCFL encourages authors to situate their findings within broader scholarly debates. Comparative perspectives and studies from diverse jurisdictions are welcomed in order to strengthen dialogue between local legal experiences and regional or global developments in family law.

Submit Your Scholarship to AJCFL

We invite scholars and researchers from Indonesia and around the world to contribute original scholarship that deepens understanding, stimulates critical debate, and offers new perspectives on the evolving field of contemporary family law.

Family Law  •  Legal Pluralism  •  Comparative Law  •  Family Justice  •  Social Transformation