Focus & Scope

Focus

The International Journal of Constitutional and Administrative Law (IJCAL) is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing critical, comparative, and interdisciplinary scholarship in constitutional law and administrative law, with particular attention to public-law developments in the Global South. The journal provides an academic forum for the examination of constitutional design, administrative governance, democratic accountability, institutional reform, and rights protection in emerging, transitional, and postcolonial legal systems.

IJCAL places distinctive emphasis on the normative legacy of the Bandung Principles, understood not merely as a historic diplomatic milestone, but as a continuing source of constitutional values relevant to sovereignty, equality, anti-colonialism, solidarity, social justice, and public responsibility in contemporary constitutional development. In this respect, the journal welcomes contributions that explore how constitutional and administrative law in the Global South generate original legal thought, institutional innovation, and alternative normative frameworks beyond Eurocentric models of public law.

The journal publishes original research articles, conceptual papers, and comparative studies that address both theoretical and practical dimensions of constitutional and administrative law. IJCAL is particularly interested in scholarship that combines doctrinal rigor with comparative, socio-legal, historical, or interdisciplinary perspectives in order to explain how constitutions and administrative institutions operate in practice across different jurisdictions.

Aims

  • promote high-quality scholarship in constitutional law and administrative law with international relevance;
  • encourage comparative and critical studies on public-law institutions, legal reform, and governance;
  • advance Global South perspectives in constitutional and administrative scholarship;
  • develop scholarly engagement with Bandung-inspired constitutional values in contemporary legal discourse; and
  • publish innovative research that strengthens understanding of institutional accountability, democratic participation, and rights protection in diverse legal systems.

Subject Areas

The journal welcomes manuscripts on, but not limited to, the following subject areas:

  • constitutional change, constitutional identity, and constitutional adjudication;
  • democracy, constitutional rights, and limitations on state power;
  • administrative law, administrative justice, and bureaucratic accountability;
  • institutional design, public governance, and legal reform in emerging and transitional democracies; and
  • comparative constitutional and administrative law in the Global South, including Bandung-inspired constitutional values.