The Centre for Environmental Law, Advocacy and Research (CELAR) of National Law University and Judicial Academy, Assam (NLUJAA), is inviting scholastic submissions for Issue 37 onwards for Lex Terra (ISSN: 2455-0965), their monthly online publication (“webzine”). Since its inception, Lex Terra has published 33 issues on various debatable facets of the environment and environment-related analytical items. Several academicians, practitioners, and students have contributed to the webzine. Through Lex Terra, they endeavour to facilitate better and greater ideas to create a community of environmentally conscious individuals from the legal and non-legal fraternity. Detailed submission guidelines can be found below.
About submissions
Lex Terra is committed to free and open access to all academic research. No publication fees will be charged to authors at any stage of the review. In addition, no subscription costs will be charged to readers. Accepted manuscripts shall be published online and can be freely accessed through the official website of National Law University and Judicial Academy, Assam.
Theme
Themes are related to environmental law and policy research
The NLS Business Law Review is the leading publication on business laws in India run by the students of the National Law School of India University. The NLSBLR has featured scholarship by a wide range of leading academics, practitioners, and luminaries, such as Justice V. Ramasubramanian (Supreme Court of India), Phillip R. Wood (QC, Allen and Overy LLP), Prof. James J. Nedumpara (Jindal Global Law School), Rajat Sethi (Founding and Managing Partner, S&R Associates), Prof. Régis Bismuth (Sciences Po) and Prof. Anurag K. Agarwal (IIM Ahmedabad).
Mandate
The NLS Business Law Review intends to recognize and foster academic research and scholarship in commercial law by examining the myriad regulatory frameworks, domestic or international, that impact doing business in India or globally. NLSBLR particularly welcomes submissions applying comparative international perspectives. The mandate of the NLS Business Law Review thus, inter alia, includes company law, securities and capital markets regulation, banking and finance, taxation, foreign investment, competition law, commercial dispute resolution, contract and commercial law, and employment law.
Submission Guidelines
The NLSBLR Journal accepts and reviews submissions on a rolling basis. Submissions must fall within the mandate of the journal, which can be found here. They attempt to review and process articles within 8-10 weeks of submission. Please follow up with NLSBLR, if you have not heard from them within 8-10 weeks.
Categories: NLSBLR accepts submissions under the following categories:
Articles (6,000 – 10,000 words) are comprehensive publications that analyse important themes, and may adopt comparative perspectives.
Essays (4,000 – 6,000 words) typically identify a specific issue, which may be of contemporary relevance, and present a central argument.
Case Notes, Legislative Comments, Book/Article Reviews (1,500 – 3,000 words).
Further Guidelines
Please fill the form available here to submit the manuscript.
All submissions must be in MS Word format (.doc) or (.docx), with Times New Roman font (Main text: size 12 and double spaced, footnotes: size 10 and single-spaced).
All manuscripts must be accompanied by a covering letter with the name(s) of the author(s), institution/affiliation, the title of the manuscript, and contact information.
An abstract of not more than 250 words shall have to be provided.
No biographical information or references, including the name(s) of the author(s), affiliation(s) and acknowledgments should be included in the text of the manuscript, file name or document properties. All such information may be incorporated in the cover letter accompanying the manuscripts.
The NLSBLR uses only footnotes (and not endnotes) as a method of citation. Submissions must conform to the Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities. Please note that SCC citations for cases must be preferred wherever available.
Submissions are accepted for publication on the condition that they do not infringe the copyright or any other rights of any third parties. All submissions would be checked for plagiarism.
Submissions made to NLSBLR shall be on an exclusive basis and must not be concurrently under consideration by any other publication.
For further details please contact
Aditi Sheth, Editor-in-Chief or Anshita Agrawal, Deputy Editor-in-Chief at nlsblr@nls.ac.in
Established in the year 2018, SVKM’s NMIMS School of Law, Navi Mumbai offers two courses, BA-LL.B (Hons.) and BBA-LL.B (Hons.), in order to provide the legal industry with young lawyers in the field of corporate law as well as in the judiciary and other likewise law professions. The Aim is to focus on filling the need to keep the legal industry on its toes. The courses are designed in such a way that apart from imbibing knowledge of law, the institution also prepares the students for the real world by honing one’s skill of presenting arguments with respect to the society, to interpret the pre-defined laws in the most efficient way with political and historical touch in it, and to be flexible and adaptive to the corporate environment. Students are engaged in internships and various para-academic activities. The School also offers all possible opportunities for international exposure and global experience and also teaches selective foreign languages to make communication easy. These allows the students to gain knowledge of law and form their own perspective in the field.
About The Conference
The National Corporate Law Conference (NCLC) is a global initiative to bring together the best research in M&A, Corporate governance, Venture Capital and Corporate Securities relating to Corporate Law at a yearly conference to be held at SVKM’s NMIMS School of Law, Navi Mumbai. The aim of the conference is to attract current research papers of the highest scholarly quality in the field of corporate Law. The conferences are primarily ‘academic-to-academic’ events with some participants from industry and the public sector and other invited panelists.
Procedure of Paper selection
Selections will be made by a Conference Committee from papers that are submitted online before 30th November, 2021 (at midnight IST) through the form contained below. Researchers will be notified whether their paper has been accepted for the Presentation at the conference before 12th December, 2021.
Organization
The conference will take place over two days. In addition to the research presentations, there will be two panel discussions involving participants from industry and the public sector.
Theme – Evolving Principles of Corporate Law: Lessons to Learn, Unlearn & Relearn
Key Challenges in Indian M&A and Exits
AIF, FPI, and FDI – The Smart Acquisition Structures in M&A.
Procedure and Protection of Intellectual Property in M&A
Due Diligence in Closing and Post-Closing Management,
SPAC as a Method of Overseas Listing
M&A Transactions and Tax Issues
Regulatory Challenges in M&A w.r.t CCI, RBI and SEBI
Financial Crisis through Corporate Law Governance
Accountability Mechanism in MNCs – The Mediating Role of Corporate Law
Private Equity Investments in Indian Companies
Regulatory Aspects of ESOP – Indian Overview
Decriminalisation of Offences under Companies and LLP Act – Need of the hour?
The Regime of Foreign Direct Investment – Boon or Bane?
The Futuristic Opportunities of Corporate Law
Extra-territorial Application of India’s Securities Law – Has SEBI cast its net too wide?
Please note that the list of sub-themes is merely suggestive and non-exhaustive in nature. The authors can choose to submit manuscripts on other relevant and contemporary topics.
Eligibility
The conference invites academicians, practitioners, students of law pursuing their LL.B (Hons.)/LL.B/LL.M from any recognized university to submit their entries.
Important dates
Submission deadline- 30th November, 2021 Date of conference- 17th & 18th December, 2021
Awards
Best Paper Award – Rs. 3000/- Selected papers will be published as an e-book on the website of NMIMS School of Law, Navi Mumbai.
Registration Fee
Single Author – Rs. 400/- Co-Author – Rs. 650/-
Submission Guidelines
Please note that the submissions must conform to the following requirements:
Co-authorship permitted up to 2 authors
All submissions to be made as MS Word Files (.doc/.docx)
Word Limit – A minimum of 3000 words and a maximum of 5000 words including an abstract of 200-250 words with 5 keywords. Word Limit is exclusive of footnotes. The abstract may highlight the central theme/issue discussed, the main arguments put forth, and the conclusion of the article.
Citation Style: Harvard Bluebook 20th Edition
Font Formatting – (i) Heading 1: Times New Roman, Size 16, Bold, 1.5 line spacing, justified alignment (ii) Heading 2: Times New Roman, Size 14, Underlined, 1.5 line spacing, justified alignment, 1.27 cm left indent (iii)Heading 3: Times New Roman, Size 12, Italics, 1.5 line spacing, justified alignment, 2.54 cm left indent (iv)Body: Times New Roman, Size 12, 1.5 line spacing, justified alignment (v)Footnotes: Times New Roman, Size 10, 1.0 line spacing, justified alignment
Permissible plagiarism up to 20 percent.
Quotations should be clearly indicated and accurate, indicated by using double inverted commas only. When using a separate paragraph for a quotation, the same must be indented and italicised.
Bibliography/IOA not required. Please ensure footnotes are exhaustive. We encourage speaking/explanatory footnotes to further elucidate your ideas. Endnotes are discouraged
Please ensure there are no identity markers in the document like name of author/s, name of institution, etc.
Please name the document as “First Author’s Full Name_First Author’s Institution Name in Short”. For example: Niharika Ravi_NMIMS.
No cover page necessary. The first page must contain the title of the paper (Times New Roman, Size 12, Bold, Centre Aligned) followed immediately by the Abstract.
Submission is equivalent to the presumption that the article in question is not published, submitted, or accepted for publication on any other platform.
