Call for Blogs | NLUO’s Legal Services Committee: Submit by Sep 30

About Legal Services Committee

The Legal Services Committee of NLUO, since its very inception, has been working with the sole aim of bridging the gap between what the law promises to offer and the actual realities of the law. The concept of community outreach has been of paramount importance in the committee, which has been satisfactorily achieved through the integration of the students into the community, by organising legal literacy camps, social mobilisation camps, conducting socio-legal surveys relating to wide-ranging contemporary issues like domestic violence, consumer rights, dowry prohibition, land rights, under-trial prisoners and many allied areas. The Committee is envisioned to undertake social action work and expand pro-bono legal services. The committee is more focused on reaching the ground level and doing the actual work as a legal professional.

About the Blog

The Legal Services Committee of National Law University Odisha, a student-run committee of the University, has consistently been a mainstay for those who require legal assistance. In pursuance of this, it is pleased to pioneer a blog as a platform to cultivate the conversation on the related issues.

The Committee believes that individuals equipped with pristine knowledge of the law are not to remain in ivory towers but to cater to social realities and needs. To promote this ideology, the Blog aims at allowing the authors to explore the legal realm and mould discussions about legal aid, not limiting themselves to social gremlins but also widening their array to nascent laws prevailing in India as well as in foreign nations through a meticulous selection process. The Blog endeavours to become the beacon of legal education by encouraging the synthesis of knowledge and best practices cutting across the academia and research fraternity.

Theme

The Blog is open to any topic which revolves around “Justice Underfunded: Why Legal Aid Receives Only Crumbs from the Justice Budget”

The Subthemes include:

• The Price of Neglect: How Underfunding Erodes the Quality and Reach of Legal Aid
• The Constitutional Promise vs. Ground Reality: Bridging the Gap in Access to Justice
• Widening the Gap: How underfunding ends up reinforcing existing social and economic inequalities.
• The Way Ahead: Exploring reforms and new models that could make legal aid more effective and sustainable.

(The given sub-themes are suggestive and not exhaustive in nature.)

Submission Guidelines

1. The submissions have to be unpublished and should be the original work of the author(s). Co-authorship of up to two authors is permitted.
2. The submission must be between 1000-1500 words. Longer posts may be accepted and published in parts, subject to the discretion of the editors. The word limit is exclusive of the endnotes (if any). The citation format used for the endnotes must be uniform, preferably the latest edition of the Bluebook.
3. The References must be in the form of hyperlinks, linked to keywords and phrases in the body of the submission. For Indian case law, the authors may provide links to the case, if available, at https://indiankanoon.org/ or the website of the relevant court. Factual assertions must be supported with appropriate links to sources. The authors may mention particular sections of the statute using https://www.indiacode.nic.in/.
4. The submission must be in a document formatted using Times New Roman font, size 12, line spacing 1.5, and justified. For the endnotes, the font size changes to 10 with a line spacing of 1, while the font remains constant.
5. Analytical posts are preferred over descriptive ones. Posts will be considered for publication based on various factors, including but not limited to relevance, quality, structure, logic, writing style and originality.
6. The body of the email must contain a short bio of the author(s) and the name of the institution that which they are affiliated to. Submissions are welcomed from students, academicians and practitioners alike. The email must include a paragraph or two succinctly summarising the manuscript submitted.
7. Once posted on the Legal Services Committee webpage, NLUO, a submission may be cross-posted on other platforms. The cross-post must carry the words ‘First posted on the Legal Services Committee NLUO’, with a link to the post.

Last Date to Submit

The Blog will accept submissions till 30th September 2025.

Submission Procedure

Please mail all your submissions to [email protected] with the subject Blog Submission: “Title”, only in a Microsoft Office Word-compatible format (.doc or .docx), PDFs will not be accepted. There must be no hint whatsoever of the authors’ identity in the Word document submitted.