LawVastutah Blog is inviting submissions of well-researched blogs including articles, opinions and short notes on contemporary legal or socio-legal topics to be submitted by 15 July 2021.
About LawVasthtah
Vastutah in Sanskrit means ‘reality’. The objective of the blog is to present a real and simplified understanding of laws that maintain the functioning of society. They believe that every citizen should have a fundamental knowledge about the contemporary benefits and difficulties the Indian law entails as it forms the backbone of our societal establishment and harmony. They endeavour to encourage students, academicians, and other professionals to pen-down a rational and critical analysis of current legal issues.
To provide a wide range of perspective to our readers and to engage with different subject areas, we are now calling for submissions containing a connection with legal issues, including legislative analysis, analysis of recent judgements, case studies, intersectional analysis and comparative studies with other legal frameworks.
General Guidelines for Submissions
- The submission should be between 2000-2500 words excluding footnotes. While authors are advised to adhere to the word limit, we may be flexible on the word limit depending on the quality of the article.
- The author can choose any contemporary legal or socio-legal theme for their article.
- Submissions are welcome from students, researchers, practitioners, and faculty from any field.
- Co-authorship is allowed among individuals up to maximum 2 authors.
- All contributions must be original and should NOT have any plagiarized content. In case of plagiarism more than the UGC guidelines, the submission by any author shall be discarded and the author will be informed of the same.
Style Guide for Submissions
- Font size: 12 pt.
- Font style: Times New Roman
- Line spacing: 1.5
- Case Laws, Statutory Material, and other relevant authorities or sources shall be cited in the format of Standard Indian Legal Citation.
Submission Guidelines
- All authors are requested to send their manuscripts in .doc or .docx format to lawvastutah@gmail.com.
- The subject of the email should be ‘Submission of Article – (Name of the author) – (Topic)’.
- The body of the email should contain details about the author(s) including the Name of the author(s), Designation, Name of the institution, Contact details (phone number and email id).
- The manuscript should not have any personal information about the author.
- All the articles shall go through a blind peer-review process.
Deadline: The submissions should be made before 11:59 PM on 15 July 2021.
Contact
Email ID: lawvastutah@gmail.com
Please know that we do not provide any remuneration to our writers and editors and they work for us pro bono. Also, we will not charge any publishing fees from anyone submitting an article.
