LENTERA HUKUM regularly publishes scholarly papers that focus on legal studies. In this issue, the journal rigorously improves the quality selection of manuscripts which strongly display the intimate knowledge of recent legal discourses that provide a window into the way they work in practice. Upon the pursuit of the excellent platform, this latest publication consists of six articles and one book review for which it discusses in-depth thoughts on law across Southeast Asia, from Indonesia, Timor Leste, to Lao PDR. The current issue adds increasingly debates on law and society, including to what extent legal pluralism has immersed and united as part of legal systems. Most papers generally discuss beyond state law, which cover adat law, Islamic law, and international law.

Over the years, the development of legal studies has increasingly mingled with the multitude of arrays of thoughts. In the context, legal studies have broadened their coverage that continuously transcend beyond the state law. The intersection of law, economics, environment, and technology, for example, indicates the dynamics of legal discourse. Therefore, in this issue, the journal has published several papers that specifically discuss important issues on business law, investment law, environmental law, competition law, and artificial intelligence law.

Since the advent of the Industrial Revolution 4.0, the development of legal studies has entered a new pathway. The debate over digital technology adds new emphasize to which legal studies are driven to critically examine with multitude viewpoints. Apart from this advancement of technological systems, there are other serious concerns: environmental protection, terrorism, and narcotics which are also amongst critical issues today. The debate over such issues is explored by the authors in our latest publication.