Call for Papers | NALSAR’s Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law [Vol.14]: Submit by Feb 29

About NALSAR

The National Academy of Legal Studies and Research, is a public law school and a National Law University located in Shamirpet, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It is among the first universities to offer the five-year integrated undergraduate law degree, postgraduate law degree and doctorate law degree. 

About Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law

The Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law (IJIPL) is the flagship intellectual property law journal of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. IJIPL is India’s first student-run journal that is wholly devoted to the study of intellectual property law. Published annually, it is the combined endeavor of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, and N.C. Banerjee Centre for Intellectual Property Rights Studies to address contemporary issues in the field of intellectual property law.

The Journal is presently soliciting submissions for its 14^th Volume, to be released tentatively in August 2024. Undergraduate students, post-graduate students, practitioners, faculty, and other academicians are invited to contribute to the Journal in the form of essays, articles, notes, and comments. Guidelines for the submissions are provided below.

Submission Categories

The submissions must fall into one of the following categories:

• Articles: An article must comprehensively analyse the issue that the author seeks to highlight. It must thoroughly study the status quo or a contemporary issue. An article should be between 5,000‐6,000 words.
• Essays: An essay challenges existing paradigms/norms and provides a fresh outlook on common problems. It is strongly recommended that essays be considerably more concise than articles in terms of scope and conceptualization. An essay must thus ideally be between 3,000‐5,000 words.
• Notes: A note is a relatively concise form of an argument advanced by the author. The focus of a note should be on a relatively recent debate or controversy regarding the interpretation or implementation of the law. The word limit for a note is 2,500 words.
• Book Review/Comment: This category allows the author to discuss and critique any recent book or a recent landmark judicial pronouncement, legislation or pending bill. The word limit for this category is 2,500 words.

Last Date of Submission

The last date for submission of papers is February 29th, 2024. 

Submission Guidelines

• Text and citations must conform to the rules in OSCOLA (4^th edition). The Journal employs footnotes as the method of citation, with speaking footnotes being discouraged.
• The text of the submission must be in Times New Roman, size 12, and 1.5 spacing. The footnotes should be in Times New Roman, size 10, and single spacing.
• Co-authorship of up to a maximum of 4 authors per piece is permissible for manuscripts submitted to the journal. The Editorial Board may allow for a higher number of co-authors for a single submission on a case-to-case basis.
• All submissions must be accompanied by: 
  • A separate document containing the author’s biographical information, including the following details: Name, E‐mail address, Postal Address, Name and Address of Institution, Course (if applicable), and Academic Year. No reference to the author’s name or affiliations must be present in the text of the submission and must only be provided in this separate document.
  • An abstract of not more than 350 words describing the submission. Please note that there is no requirement for prior submission of the abstract, as papers are selected for publication only on the basis of the full manuscript. The abstract shall serve merely to help the Editorial Board in its review process.
• Each submission must be the original work of its author(s). Any submissions found to be plagiarized from another source will be automatically rejected. To this end, a plagiarism check will be conducted as the first stage of evaluation.
• Submissions must be in accordance with the Submissions Guidelines and Editorial Policy. The contributions accepted for publication and the copyright therein shall remain jointly with the Author(s) and the IJIPL. Anyone desiring to use IJIPL’s material for educational purposes, research or private study can do so with the Publisher’s prior written permission ([email protected]).
• All author(s), by submitting any contribution towards IJIPL, hereby consent to indemnify NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, and IJIPL from and against all claims, suits, and consequences based on any claim of copyright infringement/ unauthorized use/violation of any right which may arise as a result of their contribution being published in IJIPL.
• Authors must inform the Editorial Board if their manuscripts have been submitted to other journals. Authors may request an expedited review on these grounds, but the granting of the same is within the discretion of the Editorial Board.

Submission Procedure

Please send the submissions to: [email protected]. The subject line must read “Submission for Vol. 14”. Queries may be directed to the same ID with “Query | Vol. 14” in the subject line.

Editorial and Peer Review Policy and other information about the Journal can be found on the website www.ijipl.nalsar.ac.in.