Afrocentric Legal Review (ALR) is an international, peer-reviewed scholarly journal dedicated to advancing rigorous research and critical scholarship in law, legal institutions, justice, governance, and related interdisciplinary fields, with a particular focus on African perspectives, experiences, legal traditions, and contemporary challenges.
The journal provides a platform for academics, legal practitioners, judges, policymakers, researchers, and other professionals to engage with emerging legal questions affecting Africa and its relationship with the wider global community. ALR promotes scholarship that is theoretically grounded, empirically informed, practically relevant, and responsive to the evolving needs of African societies.
Afrocentric Legal Review recognizes the diversity of African legal systems, including customary, religious, statutory, constitutional, regional, and international legal frameworks. It therefore encourages scholarship that critically examines the interaction between these systems and explores how law can contribute to justice, human rights, democratic governance, sustainable development, peace, and social transformation.
To become a leading scholarly platform for African-centred legal research, promoting innovative legal scholarship that contributes to justice, good governance, institutional development, and sustainable social transformation in Africa and beyond.
The mission of Afrocentric Legal Review is to:
Afrocentric Legal Review welcomes original research articles, review articles, theoretical papers, comparative legal studies, case analyses, policy-oriented research, and other scholarly contributions addressing significant questions in law and related disciplines.
The journal's scope includes, but is not limited to:
Constitutionalism, constitutional reforms, separation of powers, judicial review, administrative justice, federalism, decentralization, public administration, and constitutional governance.
Human rights, fundamental freedoms, equality, non-discrimination, access to justice, rights of vulnerable groups, social justice, and international human rights law.
Criminal responsibility, criminal procedure, sentencing, policing, prisons, corrections, restorative justice, cybercrime, organized crime, and criminal justice reform.
Company law, corporate governance, commercial transactions, banking and finance law, insolvency, competition law, investment law, entrepreneurship, and business regulation.
International law, African regional integration, comparative legal systems, international institutions, treaties, cross-border legal issues, and relations between African and non-African legal systems.
Customary legal systems, traditional institutions, indigenous dispute resolution, customary courts, traditional leadership, indigenous rights, and interactions between customary and formal legal systems.
Environmental regulation, climate change, biodiversity, natural resource governance, mining law, petroleum law, land law, environmental justice, and sustainable development.
Artificial intelligence and law, data protection, privacy, cybersecurity, cybercrime, digital rights, fintech regulation, blockchain, electronic commerce, technology governance, and emerging legal technologies.
Employment relations, labour rights, workplace regulation, social protection, occupational safety, migration and labour mobility, and emerging forms of employment.
Family law, marriage, divorce, inheritance, children's rights, gender equality, gender-based violence, reproductive rights, and protection of vulnerable persons.
Land tenure, property rights, housing, land administration, displacement, indigenous land rights, and natural resource ownership and management.
Rule of law, public policy, institutional accountability, transparency, anti-corruption, democratic governance, public-sector reform, and policy implementation.
Public health law, medical ethics, bioethics, health regulation, patient rights, medical liability, pharmaceutical regulation, pandemic governance, and global health law.
Mediation, arbitration, negotiation, traditional dispute resolution, legal profession, legal ethics, access to legal services, and justice-sector innovation.
The journal also welcomes scholarship addressing emerging and interdisciplinary legal questions arising from technological, economic, environmental, political, social, and institutional transformations.
ALR particularly welcomes manuscripts in the following broad areas:
Law • Justice • Human Rights • Constitutionalism • Governance • Public Policy • African Legal Systems • Customary Law • International Law • Comparative Law • Criminal Justice • Commercial Law • Corporate Law • Environmental Law • Natural Resources Law • Land Law • Labour Law • Family Law • Technology Law • Cyber Law • Data Protection • AI and Law • Health Law • Bioethics • Arbitration • Mediation • Legal Education • Legal Practice • Judicial Administration • Sustainable Development
Afrocentric Legal Review is committed to maintaining rigorous scholarly and editorial standards. Manuscripts are expected to demonstrate originality, academic quality, methodological soundness where applicable, appropriate engagement with existing literature, and clear contribution to knowledge.
The journal supports responsible and ethical scholarship and expects authors, reviewers, and editors to uphold principles of research integrity, transparency, academic honesty, confidentiality, and respect for intellectual property.