Call for papers| National Law School Journal: Submit by Mar 15

The National Law School Journal is seeking pieces authored by practitioners, academicians and researchers for its next issue.

About The NLSIU, Bangalore

NLSIU was the first National Law University established in India in 1986. The premier law school was set up with a mission to pioneer legal education reforms, and to anchor the transformation of the Indian legal system through research and policy interventions. Consequently, the NLSIU was one of the first institutions in the country to introduce the five-year integrated law degree at the undergraduate level with the commencement of the first batch in 1988.

About the National Law School Journal (NLSJ)

The National Law School Journal (NLSJ) is the flagship journal of NLSIU and it is one of the earliest legal journals to be published in India under the leadership of the founding Director Padma Bhushan Prof. (Dr.) Madhava Menon.  The year 2019 was of immense significance to the Journal as it marked the completion of 20 years of NLSJ.

Theme

Law Poverty and Development

Submission Guidelines

• Articles and Research Papers with abstract (8,000-12,000 words).
• Shorter essays (3,000-5,000 words).
• Comments on Judicial Decisions, Legislative Briefs (3,000-5,000 words inclusive of footnotes).
• Book Review (2,000-3,000 words).

All submissions will go through an initial round of review by the editorial board and the selected pieces will subsequently be sent for peer-review before finalisation for publication. We encourage potential contributors to adhere to the OSCOLA for citation style. All queries may be directed to the above-mentioned e-mail address. While there are no rigid thematic constraints, we expect contributions to be largely within the rubric of legal studies and allied interdisciplinary scholarship.

Important date

Deadline for submission is 15th March, 2021.

Submission

The submission may be e-mailed to [email protected] (preferably in MS Word format) along with a covering letter addressed to Dr. Yashomati Ghosh (Chief Editor, National Law School Journal, 2020-21). The covering letter should include the author’s contact information and a short abstract that outlines the main questions or themes addressed in the paper.

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