About مجلة الاجتهاد للدراسات القانونية والاقتصادية

مجلة الاجتهاد للدراسات القانونية والاقتصادية (Alijtihed / Al-Ijtihad Journal on Legal and Economic Studies) — Journal Profile

Alijtihed Journal on Legal and Economic Studies — in Arabic, مجلة الاجتهاد للدراسات القانونية والاقتصادية, transliterated on its own site as Alijtihed and in directories as Al-Ijtihad — is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access journal in law and economics, published by the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the University of Tamanrasset in Algeria. Its print ISSN is 2335-1039 and its electronic ISSN is 2437-0754. It appears twice a year, in January and June, charges no fee, is published in print and online with the online version freely accessible and downloadable, and welcomes manuscripts from researchers around the world at any time for its two annual issues. Its own site states that its articles are indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The current-issue record on that site — volume 15, number 2, June 2026, serial number 42 — shows a living, regularly appearing journal, and its archive of recent issues shows the breadth in practice: Algerian administrative, banking, family, commercial and criminal law studied closely, Islamic jurisprudence treated as a living legal source, and economic questions from investment freedom to banking reform examined alongside them.

One correction must be made before anything else, because the Journals World record for this post gets the publisher wrong. That record names a commercial-sounding trading company as the publisher in Algeria. The journal's own site, hosted on the University of Tamanrasset domain, states the publisher plainly as the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, University of Tamanrasset — Algeria, and independent directory listings that reproduce the journal's own description give the University of Tamanrasset as publisher in the same terms. There is no ambiguity to balance: a university faculty journal has been mislabelled in the template record with an unrelated publisher name, most plausibly by an automated publisher-matching error of the kind that attaches a same-country company to a journal whose real publisher is an institution. This profile follows the journal's own statement. Anyone citing, cataloguing or submitting to the journal should do the same, and the structured publisher field on this Journals World post should be corrected when the record is next edited. The ISSNs, the country and the subject focus on the record are, by contrast, correct.

Quick facts

Publisher and place: Tamanrasset and Algerian legal scholarship

The University of Tamanrasset serves Algeria's far south, and its Faculty of Law and Political Sciences publishing an international journal in law and economics is a statement about where Algerian legal scholarship is produced as well as what it contains. Much of the journal's content speaks directly to Algerian law in action — the administrative judge's role in social security disputes, the monetary and banking authorities under new Algerian banking legislation, investment guarantees under Algerian investment law, e-commerce and merchant status, land registration as an instrument of electronic government, customary marriage proof, bankruptcy and creditors, sports contracts, medical error — studied with the statutes, councils and courts named and the reforms dated. For a reader outside Algeria, that specificity is the journal's gift: it is a reliable window onto how Algerian law is currently argued by Algerian jurists, in a system where legislation changes frequently and where French- and Arabic-language commentary does not always travel. For a reader inside Algeria, it is a home venue of record, free to publish in and free to read, which in a no-fee open-access model means that a practitioner, a judge's clerk or a student in Tamanrasset itself faces no paywall between themselves and current scholarship about their own legal system.

The word ijtihad in the title carries meaning that a careful profile should not flatten. In Islamic legal tradition it denotes disciplined independent reasoning on questions of law — effortful interpretation grounded in sources and method. A journal that places that word over legal and economic studies, and whose stated subject areas include Sharia law alongside law, political science and international relations, and economics, econometrics and finance, is announcing a plural legal conversation: positive Algerian law, comparative law and Islamic jurisprudence in the same pages, sometimes in the same article. Recent archive entries make the plurality concrete — a study of illicit-wealth waqf comparing Islamic jurisprudence and Algerian law, work on the punishment of exile in the Mzab community across five centuries comparing jurisprudence and Algerian penal law, studies of spousal religion and children's rights across Islamic law and the Algerian Family Law, and jurisprudence-method studies standing beside banking-regulation and public-procurement analyses. Authors should take the hint: comparative and jurisprudence-informed work is not an exotic extra here; it is part of the journal's founding conversation.

Scope in practice

The journal's stated focus is law and economics, and its directory subject listing refines that into law; political science and international relations; economics, econometrics and finance; and Sharia law. The archive shows what those headings collect in practice. Public and administrative law is heavily represented: public procurement and the protection of public money, administrative adjudication and the execution of urgent administrative judgments, digitisation of the justice sector, municipal support for education, and the structure of regulatory councils. Private and commercial law follows closely: arbitration and arbitrator impartiality under Algerian law, bankruptcy, electronic commerce, commercial registration, banking committee supervision and monetary council regulation, and investment law guarantees. Family and personal-status law forms a third strong strand, frequently in explicit comparison with Islamic jurisprudence. Criminal law and criminology appear in current forms — human-trafficking legislation, cybercrime as a legal concept, preventive criminalisation. Economics, finally, is present both as a partner to law (financial legislation, banking reform, financial innovation in Algerian institutions, research and development as a driver of growth studied through a Malaysian case) and in topical studies such as digital empowerment of youth against cybersecurity risk and women's political participation read through Algeria's constitutional development. A manuscript that sits squarely in any of those conversations, and that handles Algerian, comparative or jurisprudential sources with precision, is on the journal's ground.

Fit cautions are equally clear. This is a law-and-economics journal, not a general social-sciences outlet: a purely literary, historical or natural-science manuscript has no home here. Doctrinal claims must be sourced to the texts themselves — law numbers, gazette references and article numbers are the house currency, as the archive's own titles demonstrate — and comparative work must actually compare, stating the other system's rule before drawing the lesson. Economic submissions should likewise show their evidence rather than assert it. None of this is unusual; it is simply what the published record rewards, and reading two recent issues before submitting remains the single best preparation an author can do.

Editorial model: double-blind review, no fees, two issues a year

The journal describes itself, in its own about statement, as international, double-blind peer-reviewed, bi-annual, free of charge and open access, published in print and online, with manuscripts welcome at any time for the January and June issues. Each element deserves a plain-English gloss for authors used to commercial platforms. Double-blind means author and reviewer identities are withheld from one another; manuscripts should therefore be anonymised as submitted, with identifying material confined to the cover information the journal requests. Free of charge is stated without qualification in the journal's self-description, and no submission, evaluation or publication fee is asserted anywhere in the material verified for this profile; an author who is asked for a payment in this journal's name through any other channel should stop and verify through the university-domain site, because fee demands are the most common impersonation pattern affecting no-fee journals. Bi-annual with rolling welcome means the editorial office receives work continuously and assembles it into two dated issues; it does not promise rapid publication, and no verified turnaround or acceptance-rate figure is published in the material behind this profile, so none is invented here. The journal runs on Open Journal Systems, the Public Knowledge Project's open-source platform (the site records OJS 3.4), which is the standard workflow system for university journals of exactly this kind and which gives authors a conventional submission, review and proof trail.

Rights and reuse should be checked on the live site at submission time. This profile deliberately states no licence term, because no specific licence statement was verified in the sources used, and licence terms are precisely the kind of fact that must be read in the journal's current wording rather than inferred from its open-access status. Open access tells you that readers may read freely; the licence, when stated by the journal, tells you what more they may do. The same discipline applies to any detail that can change between issues — editorial board composition, submission formatting, language requirements for abstracts — all of which belong to the live about and submission pages, not to a directory profile.

Reading the journal well

For researchers, the journal's best use is as current Algerian legal commentary with primary-source discipline. When an article analyses a named Algerian law, it typically works from the law itself, and its value lies in that closeness; verify a time-sensitive proposition against the law's current amended text before relying on it, exactly as you would with commentary in any fast-reforming system. For comparativists, the jurisprudence-comparison articles offer worked examples of how Algerian jurists themselves stage the conversation between codified law and Islamic legal sources — more instructive, for most purposes, than an outsider's summary of either. For economists and policy readers, the banking, investment and financial-innovation studies provide institution-level Algerian detail that is scarce in English-language databases. Titles and much navigation are available in English on the journal site, while a substantial share of the scholarship itself is in Arabic; readers without Arabic should use the English titles, abstracts and subject structure to identify relevant work and should arrange proper translation of any article they intend to cite, rather than citing from a title alone.

For librarians and directory editors, this post's lesson is the publisher correction with which this profile opened. Record the publisher as the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, University of Tamanrasset; record both ISSNs (2335-1039 print, 2437-0754 online); record the frequency as bi-annual (January and June), the review as double-blind, and the model as no-fee open access — all from the journal's own statement. Retain the Arabic title as the primary title, with Alijtihed / Al-Ijtihad as the transliterated form, because searches under the Arabic title are how most of the journal's own readership will arrive. A record that pairs correct ISSNs with a wrong commercial publisher is worse than an incomplete record, because it misdirects verification, correspondence and trust; that is why the conflict is flagged prominently here rather than buried in a footnote.

Frequently asked questions

Who really publishes this journal? The Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, University of Tamanrasset, Algeria — as stated on the journal's own university-domain site. The trading-company publisher name on the Journals World template record is incorrect and is flagged in this profile for correction.

What are its ISSNs? Print ISSN 2335-1039 and e-ISSN 2437-0754, stated together on the journal's about page and matching the Journals World record.

Does it charge authors? The journal describes itself as free of charge and open access. Verify any payment request through the official university-domain site before paying anything to anyone.

How often does it appear, and when can I submit? Twice a year, in January and June. The journal states that manuscripts can be sent at any time for the two issues.

Is it peer reviewed? Yes — double-blind peer review, stated by the journal. No acceptance rate or review-time figure is published in the verified sources, so none is claimed here.

Sources and verification note

This profile is based on the journal's own site on the University of Tamanrasset domain (about page stating the ISSN pair, double-blind review, bi-annual January/June schedule, no-fee open-access model, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences as publisher, print and online publication, DOAJ indexing claim, and manuscripts welcome at any time; current-issue and archive pages showing volume 15, numbers 1–2, 2026, serial numbers 41–42, and the article topics summarised above; and the site's platform notice recording Open Journal Systems), cross-checked against the African Journals Online country listing reproducing the journal's own description and subject areas. The Journals World record agrees on ISSNs, country and subjects; it conflicts on publisher, as detailed at the head of this profile, and that conflict is reported on the evidence of the journal's own site.

The journal in Algeria's wider scholarly system

To place the journal fairly, a reader should know that Algerian university journals operate inside a national scholarly system with its own platforms and classifications, in which a faculty journal that sustains a regular twice-yearly appearance, keeps a complete online archive on its university domain and presents its review model and identifiers transparently is doing the unglamorous work on which a national research culture depends. The serial numbering on its issues — the June 2026 issue is the forty-second in sequence — is a small, telling detail: sequences like that are only accumulated by journals that actually appear, issue after issue, through changes of editorial teams, platforms and regulations. The move onto a current version of Open Journal Systems, recorded on the site itself, points the same way; platform maintenance is invisible when it is done and fatal when it is not, and a journal whose site runs a maintained system in 2026 is signalling that its archive is being actively cared for rather than merely left online. None of this requires inflating the journal's claims. It does not present itself as a commercial mega-journal and this profile does not present it as one. It presents itself, accurately on the evidence, as a university faculty's international, reviewed, no-fee venue for law and economics — and sustains that presentation with a verifiable archive.

Guidance for authors outside Algeria

International authors are explicitly welcomed by the journal's own statement that papers from around the world are very welcome, and the welcome should be taken seriously — with preparation. Read the archive's comparative articles first and model your own on their discipline: name the Algerian rule precisely before comparing it, give law numbers and dates, and explain institutional actors that an Algerian reader would know and a foreign reader would not, because your likely audience is both. If your contribution is jurisprudential, engage the sources in their own terms and show your method, in keeping with the disciplined reasoning the journal's title invokes; assertion dressed as interpretation will not survive double-blind review in a faculty of law. If your contribution is economic, anchor it in the Algerian institutional setting or in a comparison that includes Algeria substantively, rather than offering a generic study with the journal's name as its only local connection. Prepare anonymised files carefully, keep correspondence through the official platform, and verify every practical instruction — formatting, abstracts, declarations — on the live site at the moment of submission, since a directory profile, this one included, is a map and not the territory. Authors who do that work will find the journal's bargain attractive: rigorous blind review, no fee, open readership, and a place in a conversation where law as it is lived in Algeria meets the wider world's questions.

Readers verifying this journal for a tenure file, a library subscription decision or a submission shortlist can complete the whole check from primary sources in a short sitting: open the university-domain site, confirm the ISSN pair and publisher on the about page, confirm the January and June rhythm and the serial sequence in the archive, open one recent article and confirm that its content matches the stated law-and-economics scope, and note the double-blind, no-fee statement for the record. That is the same sequence used to build this profile, and reproducing it — rather than trusting any directory, this one included — is the habit that keeps scholarly records honest.