About
Journal of Socio-Legal Studies and Research (JSLSR) is an open-access student-edited blind peer reviewed interdisciplinary journal. The Journal is expected to be a platform for the academicians and students from the legal fraternity to present their ideas.
The Journal aims at addressing the issues at hand in the socio-legal domain and promote awareness among all, starting from legal professionals to layman. It also strives to provide a platform for diversity of intellectual pursuit from all corners of the society for enrichment and enhancement of the group readers. It endeavors to become a forum of interaction of eminent scholars and students and to encourage law students to develop their interest in various fields of the law. The ambit of the journal is broad not restricted to any particular field of law but encompassing everything in the socio-legal sphere.
The Journal aims at addressing the issues at hand in the socio-legal domain and promote awareness among all, starting from legal professionals to layman. It also strives to provide a platform for diversity of intellectual pursuit from all corners of the society for enrichment and enhancement of the group readers. It endeavors to become a forum of interaction of eminent scholars and students and to encourage law students to develop their interest in various fields of the law. The ambit of the journal is broad not restricted to any particular field of law but encompassing everything in the socio-legal sphere.
Scope and Objectives
(JSLSR) is a generalist peer-reviewed law journal and aims to include a varied range of articles in each issue. The editors are keen to encourage articles which:
- Analyze the history, development and contemporary status of law with particular reference to doctrinal, conceptual, theoretical, comparative or socio-legal analyses such that they are of interest to a general legal readership international.
- Place current legal developments in historical and theoretical perspectives.
- Analyze contributions to law.
Importance of Socio-Legal Research
In every political society it is the law which contributes to its civilized character, but law is the handmaid of social justice, rendering in the interest of society that which is according to law and to which a person or persons are entitled. Law, whether codified or uncodified is a dynamic process. Law cannot stand still, it must change with the changing social concept and values, it should grow with changing needs of society.
As society is a changing phenomenon and with the change its need has also changed, there occurs gradual or suitable changes in society, and there is a good variety of interactions between social evolution and legal change and with changing social scenario, it is necessary that where the existing law is unable to move with changes taking place in our society, to reform it or where there exists no law at all then make a law to regulate the changes that are taking place in the society.
Law is best understood by viewing the legal system as a process, a means of pulling together society’s need and goals and translating them into guides for fairness and reasonableness in conduct and so law must keep pace with a progressive, modern society, for the development and progress of any society.
Socio-legal research can enable us to find out the deficiencies in an enactment and the problems of its implementations. The object of socio-legal research is to find out lacunae or deficiencies in the existing laws and to suggest suitable measures to eliminate them. And also another objective is that, where there is an area for which there is no law at all, by conducting socio-legal research, would be suggested suitable legislation for that area.
The significance of socio-legal research lies in the submission of proposal for reform in the existing law be it enacted, customary or judicial socio-legal research is very useful to find out. Impact of any established legislation or impact of a newly formed legal principle, rule or institution on society.
Law does not operate in vacuum, it operates in society and so legislation which is useful to society, only becomes an adequate or effective legislation. It is ineffective if it is completely against social need of changing society, and for that socio-legal research is only an effective medium to increase the effectiveness of any legislation and so it is recommended to encourage more and more socio-legal research, such study in the realm of law will give a new insight to law makers and implementers. It will enrich teaching of law and make its practice more relevant to suit the needs of the people in changing society, and can maintain a balance between law and social change by conducting law reform which is the need of this fast developing century to cope up with growing criminality and social evils.
As society is a changing phenomenon and with the change its need has also changed, there occurs gradual or suitable changes in society, and there is a good variety of interactions between social evolution and legal change and with changing social scenario, it is necessary that where the existing law is unable to move with changes taking place in our society, to reform it or where there exists no law at all then make a law to regulate the changes that are taking place in the society.
Law is best understood by viewing the legal system as a process, a means of pulling together society’s need and goals and translating them into guides for fairness and reasonableness in conduct and so law must keep pace with a progressive, modern society, for the development and progress of any society.
Socio-legal research can enable us to find out the deficiencies in an enactment and the problems of its implementations. The object of socio-legal research is to find out lacunae or deficiencies in the existing laws and to suggest suitable measures to eliminate them. And also another objective is that, where there is an area for which there is no law at all, by conducting socio-legal research, would be suggested suitable legislation for that area.
The significance of socio-legal research lies in the submission of proposal for reform in the existing law be it enacted, customary or judicial socio-legal research is very useful to find out. Impact of any established legislation or impact of a newly formed legal principle, rule or institution on society.
Law does not operate in vacuum, it operates in society and so legislation which is useful to society, only becomes an adequate or effective legislation. It is ineffective if it is completely against social need of changing society, and for that socio-legal research is only an effective medium to increase the effectiveness of any legislation and so it is recommended to encourage more and more socio-legal research, such study in the realm of law will give a new insight to law makers and implementers. It will enrich teaching of law and make its practice more relevant to suit the needs of the people in changing society, and can maintain a balance between law and social change by conducting law reform which is the need of this fast developing century to cope up with growing criminality and social evils.