About the Centre
Since its inception, Lex Terra has published 42 issues on various debatable facets of the environment and environment-related analytical articles. Several academicians, practitioners, and students have contributed to the webzine.
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.
About the Call for Submissions
The Centre for Environmental Law, Advocacy & Research (CELAR) of National Law University and Judicial Academy, Assam, is pleased to invite scholastic submissions for Issue 43 onwards for Lex Terra (ISSN: 2455-0965), our quarterly online publication (“webzine”). It is to be published tentatively in October 2023.
No subscription cost will be charged to leaders. Accepted manuscripts shall be published online and can be freely accepted through the official website of the National Law University and Judicial Academy, Assam.
Themes
Environmental law and policy research.
Submission Guidelines
-
Manuscripts that are not related to environmental law are summarily rejected.
-
The word limit, exclusive of footnotes, is as follows:
-
Short Articles: 2000 words,
-
Enviro-legislative analysis: 1000 words,
-
Enviro-legal news & perspectives: 1000 words, and
-
Enviro-judgement analysis: 1000 – 1500 words.
-
Please do not use any personal identification details in the manuscript, such as your name or
institutional affiliations, to better facilitate the double-blind peer-review process.
-
Co-authorship among individuals of the same or different institutions is allowed up to two
authors.
-
Please ensure that the manuscript submitted to Lex Terra must not be simultaneously under
consideration at other academic publications.
-
Any manuscripts found to have a similarity index of more than 25% are summarily rejected.
Formatting Guidelines
-
Submissions should exclusively be made in .doc/ .docx format.
-
The authors must follow the Bluebook 20th Edition format for citations.
-
All text, including hyperlinks featured in the footnotes of the manuscript, must be in black colour.
-
In addition, hyperlinks to an online citation must be removed.
-
Only the text of the link should be retained.
-
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.
-
Abbreviation of a word should only be done at the first instance and should not be repeated later.
-
Speaking footnotes are strictly prohibited.
How to Submit?
Submission Deadline
September 20, 2023
Contact Information
For any further queries, contact celar@nluassam.ac.in.
Click here to submit.
