About the VIPS Law Blog
The VIPS Law Blog is an initiative by the Vivekananda School of Law and Legal Studies (VSLLS), VIPS seeks to host original contributions consisting of in-depth analysis and interpretation of legal issues and concepts.
The mission
of the blog is to promote academic scholarship through the development of legal
reasoning and argumentation. The platform hopes to create an environment
conducive to the exchange of opinion amongst law students, academicians,
jurists, legal practitioners, and law and policy enthusiasts. We accommodate
submissions that initiate, further, and transform discourse on matters of
law.
Blog
Link - https://vipslawblog.wordpress.com/
About VSLLS, VIPS
Vivekananda
School of Law and Legal Studies (VSLLS) of Vivekananda Institute of
Professional Studies (VIPS) is committed to realising the words of Swami
Vivekananda: “Man Making, Character Building and Nation Building”. Vivekananda
Institute of Professional Studies is affiliated to Guru Gobind Indraprastha
University, recognised by Bar Council of India (BCI) and University Grants
Commission (UGC) under section 2(f), with NAAC ‘A’ accreditation, is well known
for its robust efforts in legal education.
Dr
S.C. Vats our founder and chairman, a great philanthropist and educationist
believe in perfection and thus, the motto of our institution is “In Pursuit of
Perfection”. With his vision and guidance, the law school has produced
many scholars, gold medalists, judicial officers along with lawyers placed with
highly reputed industries, law firms, senior advocates and government officers.
Call for Blogs
The VIPS
Law Blog (VLB) calls for blogs on a rolling basis on any contemporary
issue relating to law. This is to clarify that since the nature of our blog is
a generalist blog, the authors are at liberty to choose any relevant
theme/topic relating to law.
The mission of the blog is to promote academic scholarship through the
development of legal reasoning and argumentation. The platform hopes to create
an environment conducive to the exchange of opinion amongst law students,
academicians, jurists, legal practitioners, and law and policy
enthusiasts.
Guidelines for Authors
1)
All
submissions and queries are to be emailed to vipslawblog@gmail.com
2)
The
submission shall be authored by not more than 2 persons.
3)
The
submission shall be made in .docx/word document format.
4)
The
submission shall be in the English language.
5)
The
word limit for the submission should be between 1200-1500 words will be
preferred. However, longer submissions may be considered on a need basis.
6)
The
font style should be Garamond with font size 12 for submission with line
spacing for 1.5 in justified format.
7)
The
submission must have hyperlinks to sources, including any judgments, laws,
treaties or other legal texts which are referenced. Hyperlinks must link only
to legal or respected news sources. The editors make the final decision over what
constitutes a respectable source.
8)
The
submissions shall be properly structured with sub-headings/sub-topics.
9)
References
that cannot be hyperlinked may be cited using Bluebook 21th Edition.
10) The submissions will be accepted
on a rolling basis throughout the year.
11) The submission of the
author/authors shall be the original work of the author and should not be
plagiarized.
12) The Blog shall receive a
disclaimer from the author that the submission has not been published on any
other platform and shall not be placed for consideration before any other
platform for the purpose of publication.
13) The final publication of all
submissions shall be subject to changes by the Editorial Board.
14) Along with the blog submission,
the author(s) would be required to submit an abstract of 100-150 words
describing the overview of the theme covered in their blog.
15) A relevant photograph can be
provided by the authors describing their manuscript. Accompanying the image is
optional (we’ll include one if you want). If you wish to provide an image to go
with your blog post, it should be attributed (provide image source URL), at
least 200×200 pixels, JPG, or PNG format.
Read the
complete guidelines at https://vipslawblog.wordpress.com/guidelines-for-authors/
Contact
In
case of queries please email us at vipslawblog@gmail.com or contact –
Saharsh
Panjwani (+91 9013965521)
Namrata
Singhal (+91 8700519816)