About CITIL
The Centre for ‘Studies in International Trade and Investment Laws’ (CITIL) is a research and learning centre at Dharmashastra National Law University, Jabalpur.
It aims to bring together legal academics, professionals, students, researchers etc., with the objective of disseminating knowledge and encouraging purposeful research in the different realms of International Trade Law and International Investment Law.
About DGTR
The Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) (earlier known as the Directorate General of Anti-dumping and Allied Duties) was named in May 2018 as an integrated single window agency for providing a comprehensive and swift trade defence mechanism in India.
Earlier, the Directorate General of Anti-dumping and Allied Duties (DGAD) dealt with anti-dumping and CVD cases, the Directorate General of Safeguards (DGS) dealt with safeguard measures and the DGFT dealt with quantitative restriction (QR) safeguards.
About the Call for Papers
Because of COVID-19, the production and consumption of various kinds of goods and services were impacted negatively nationally and internationally to a great extent.
In response to the pandemic, many national governments employed effective trade policy measures and trade remedies including but not limited to tariff measures, non-tariff measures, state support measures, Anti-dumping measures, Safeguard measures, etc.
The aim of this proposed publication is to invite scholarly papers, articles, and case discussions on the issues of trade remedies and trade policy instruments in the world of international trade post-pandemic.
Themes and Sub-themes
The theme for submissions is-
“Recent issues in Trade Remedies under the WTO regime.”
Suggestive sub-themes (Not exhaustive)
- Legal Issues Concerning Trade Remedies in Preferential Trade Agreements
- Welfare Effects of Trade Remedies under WTO
- Trade Remedies and WTO Dispute Resolution mechanism
- Trade Remedies and WTO Rules Negotiations
- Inequitable application of Trade Remedies under the WTO regime
- Trade Remedies and WTO Reforms
- India and Trade Remedies under the WTO
Submission Categories
Manuscripts can be submitted in the following categories per the mentioned criteria:
- Long Articles: 4,000-6,000 words
- Short Articles: 3,000-4,000 words
- WTO Case Notes/: 2,000-3,000 words
- Book Reviews: 1,000-2,000 words
(The word limit is exclusive of the abstract and the footnotes.)
Submission Guidelines
- Authors are permitted to send only one submission per author or a pair of co-authors. Co-authorship of up to two authors is allowed.
- Manuscripts must include an abstract of not more than 300 words. The abstract must clearly define the structure and objective of the manuscript.
- Submissions should be the original work of contributors. A plagiarised submission will be summarily rejected.
- The authors are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of statements of facts, opinions, or views in submission.
- The Centre has an exclusive submission policy, i.e., the manuscripts should be unpublished and not under any concurrent consideration.
Formatting Guidelines
- Main title: Times New Roman, Size 14, small capitals, centre aligned, in bold.
- Headings within the main body: Times New Roman, Size 12, upper case, left aligned, in bold.
- Subheadings within the main body: Times New Roman, Size 12, title case, left aligned, in italics.
- Text within the main body: Times New Roman, Size 12, title case, justified aligned, and 1.5 line spacing.
- The authors must conform to the 4th Edition of OSCOLA rules of citation. Footnotes must be in Times New Roman, with Font Size 10 and 1.0 line spacing.
How to Submit?
- All the submissions must be in (.docx) format. They must be word processed and compatible with Microsoft Word 2007 or above.
- All Submissions must be made through emails at citil@mpdnlu.ac.in
- The manuscript should not contain any information that can be used to identify the author.
- All the relevant details of the authors and their affiliation must be mentioned in a separate Cover Letter to be sent along with the manuscript.
- Authors shall receive an email acknowledging the receipt of their manuscript within two days of receiving the entry.
Submission Deadline
May 25, 2023
About Publication
The selected papers will be published in the form of book chapters in an Edited Book. The Edited Book will be published by the Directorate General of Trade Remedies, Ministry of Commerce, Government of India (DGTR) with an ISBN.
Contact Information
In case of any queries regarding the submissions, please contact:
- Utkarsh K. Mishra (Assistant Professor of Law & Director, CITIL, DNLU): +91 7905017038
- Romit Jain (Student Research Associate (CITIL), DNLU): +917067239206
- Priya Sahu (Administrative Staff, DNLU): + 916260188757
- Email: citil@mpdnlu.ac.in; utkarsh@mpdnlu.ac.in.
