About the Journal

History of the journal
  • Mae Fah Luang University Law Journal has a period of operation divided into two periods. The first period published articles from 2009 until 2011, totaling 3 issues (1 issue per year). The second period has been publishing articles from 2018 until the present.
 
The purpose of the journal
  • The School of Law, Mae Fah Luang University, has established this journal with the primary objective of serving as a platform for disseminating various forms of academic works written to create knowledge about the Thai legal system, as well as interactions or studies of the Thai legal system through comparisons with other legal systems, which must undergo rigorous review by qualified experts. This aligns with the goals of the School of Law, Mae Fah Luang University, to achieve academic excellence in legal studies and fulfill its mission to promote and develop the Thai legal system through contemporary academic knowledge.
 
Aims and Scope
  • The Journal's aims and scope are to publish academic articles, research articles, court decision analysis articles, book recommendation articles, and legal opinion articles that focus on studying Thailand's legal system in all dimensions, including historical, theoretical, legal institutional aspects, as well as the relationship between law and society. In addition, the journal also considers articles written in a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, which study Thailand's legal system in the context of legal development in various scopes, such as ASEAN or international contexts. The journal accepts legal articles in various fields, including constitutional law, criminal law, civil and commercial law, human rights law, environmental law, legal history, as well as other fields that are based on Thailand's law or legal system. The journal hopes to receive support from academics, practitioners, policymakers, and students in submitting articles for publication to promote and disseminate legal knowledge, support legal development, and make the journal a reliable reference source for legal research and education in the future.
 
Types of articles published
  • Journals publish various types of articles as follows: research articles, academic articles, analysis of judicial decisions, analysis of legal opinions, analysis of law exams, law review articles, law book recommendations, and storytelling from lawyers. Each type of article has the following meanings:
  1. Research article refers to an article that is based on a research paper. (Research project or Master's and Doctoral theses) to present the findings systematically.
  2. An academic article refers to an article presenting an analysis or criticism of law, both theoretical and practical, which will benefit the body of knowledge or its further application.
  3. Analysis of judicial decisions refers to an article that presents an analysis or criticism of court judgments, such as the decisions of the Court of Justice and the Constitutional Court.
  4. Analysis of legal opinion refers to an article that presents an analysis or criticism of the legal opinion of organisations or individuals, such as the legislative opinion of the Council of State and the legal opinions of the Administrative Practices Committee.
  5. Analysis of legal exams refers to articles that present an analysis or criticism of legal exams in various examination fields, such as qualifying examinations for inclusion of judicial officials in the position of assistant judges and qualifying examinations for inclusion of a public prosecutor in the position of assistant public prosecutor.
  6. Legal miscellaneous refers to an article that presents anecdotes that are interesting legal issues.
  7. Law book recommendation refers to an article that introduces an interesting law book.
  8. Storytelling from a lawyer refers to an article that tells a story about law from the experience of the author, who is a lawyer. (Lawyer means a person who has at least a bachelor's degree in law.)
 
Article submission period
  • The journal accepts article submissions year-round. The opening and closing of submissions for each issue are determined by the editorial board’s announcement, depending on the number of articles that can be published in that issue
 
Characteristics of quality assessment
  • All types of articles will be assessed for quality by a peer reviewer who has knowledge and expertise in accordance with the content of that article. For “research article” and “academic article”, there will be 3 reviewers per article. Whereas there will be 2 reviewers per article for other types of articles. It should be noted that this is a double-blinded review. That is, the reviewers do not know the names of the authors, and the authors do not know who reviewed their articles.
  • In the case of any article written by a person within Mae Fah Luang University, whether the author is in the status of a full-time lecturer, senior lecturer, staff member, or student, the reviewers assessing the quality of such articles shall be from outside Mae Fah Luang University. However, this does not include the case where an article has two or more authors and one or more authors are members of Mae Fah Luang University.
 
Language of publication
  • Thai
 
Period for publication
  • The journal publishes 2 issues per year, every 6 months, as follows:
  1. Issue 1 January - June
  2. Issue 2 July - December
 
Quality of the journal
 
Author's fees and remuneration
  • The journal does not impose fees on authors for any processes and does not provide remuneration to authors.
 
Remuneration for reviewers
  • The journal has a policy to provide remuneration to experts who review articles in the amount of 2,000 baht (two thousand baht) per person, regardless of whether the final results of articles assessing quality will be published or not.
 
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Owner
 
Editor's office