POLRI is an open access, double peer-reviewed e-journal which has the scope of topics that are most interesting to the readers. The materials published include major academic papers dealing critically with various aspects and field of laws as well as shorter papers such as recently published book review and notes on topical issues of law. Furthermore, POLRI also aims to publish new work of the highest calibre across the full range of legal scholarship, which includes but not limited to works in:

• the law and history,
• legal philosophy,
• sociology of law,
• Socio-legal studies,
• International Law, 
• Environmental Law,
• Criminal Law,
• Private Law,
• Islamic Law,
• Agrarian Law,
• Administrative Law,
• Criminal Procedural Law,
• Commercial Law,
• Constitutional Law,
• Human Rights Law,
• Civil Procedural Law and,
• Adat Law.