Submission Guidelines

9.1

Submissions will be accepted on the latest and/or relevant issues on various subject matters of laws.

9.2

Submissions can take the form of articles, short notes, opinions, case comments, book reviews, response to an existing post on the blog on the mentioned topics.

9.3

The submission should reflect original, unpublished work and not under review in any other platform. A maximum similarity of 15% is allowed. Non-adherence to this rule shall result in rejection of the article summarily without any chance of revision.

Note: If an author withdraws his submission after initiation of the review process (within the seven-day deadline) he can be blacklisted from further publications, at the discretion of the Managing Editors or Project Heads.

9.4

Submissions must ideally be limited to a length of 1000 to 3000 words. However, the author can exceed the limit in case of necessity subject to discretion of the editor concerned. This limit shall be exclusive of any explanatory endnotes that are added.

Note: Gross violation of this clause shall result in rejection of the article summarily. In no case the article shall cross 4000 words. (This clause shall not be applicable on expert opinion pieces)

9.5

Submissions should be made only in Microsoft Word (.docx) format. The submission should adhere to the following formatting style. Font: Times New Roman, Font size: 12, Line spacing: 1.5” (For endnotes Font size: 10, Line spacing: 1”)

9.6

Relevant sources such as judgments, laws, treaties, news article and other legal texts must be added as hyperlinks in-text (if possible) but must contain proper citations adhering to the uniform Bluebook 20th Edition citation style.

9.7

The submission should have an informative title. If the author wishes the editorial board to assign a title, the author should inform the same in the body of the mail.