About the Journal
The Journal functions under the aegis of the MK Nambyar SAARCLAW Chair in Comparative Constitutional Studies and the Constitutional Law Society at NALSAR. The annually published and peer-reviewed journal seeks to promote scholarship on core and comparative constitutional law issues.
IJCL aims at providing a source of qualitative and well-researched jurisprudence to constitutional lawyers, academicians, and students, while simultaneously encouraging contributions from all these quarters. In the forthcoming Volume, IJCL seeks to strike a balance between legal realities and academic ideals in its published pieces. Previously, our journal has carried contributions from Prof. Upendra Baxi, Prof. Gary Jacobsohn, Prof. Ran Hirschl, Justice Michael Kirby, and Mr. Soli Sorabjee and Mr. Arvind Datar, among several other eminent academics, judges and practitioners.
About Call for Papers
The Indian Journal of Constitutional Law invites submissions for its twelfth issue, to be published in 2024. In its decade-long history, the Journal has borne witness to outstanding scholarship from leading and budding scholars of our time, spanning the breadth of professors, researchers, and students. This will be a special edition, owing to the festive occasion of the Silver Jubilee celebrations of NALSAR, our home institution.
This edition will feature, in addition to our general repertoire of unsolicited pieces, solicited pieces from our alumni. All pieces are subject to the same review process consisting of multiple rounds of examination.
Submission Guidelines
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Submissions should contain the manuscript, abstract and authors’ details in three separate documents. All documents must be in Microsoft Word’s .doc or .docx format only.
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Submissions must only be in the form of electronic copies. Your submissions will be acknowledged within 48 hours. We follow a peer review process, where the piece is sent out for peer review after two rounds of internal scrutiny by the Editorial Board.
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In case the submission is accepted, the board shall inform the authors of the Reviewer’s comments and the authors will be afforded a reasonable time to submit a revised draft considering the reviewer’s comments.
Formatting Guidelines
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Citation Format: All submissions must conform to the Oxford University Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities, (4th Edition) citation system. The same can be accessed at https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxlaw/oscola_4th_edn_hart_2012.pdf.
Speaking footnotes are not discouraged. A submission that is either insufficiently cited or is seen as not adhering to the citation format will be deemed rejected.
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Font specifications: The body of the manuscript should be in Times New Roman, font size 12, with 1.5 line spacing. The footnotes should be in Times New Roman, font size 10, with single line spacing.
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Abstract: Every submission must be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 350 words that outlines the area of study and any important conclusions that may be drawn by the author(s).
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Joint Contributions: Collaborative articles and essays by up to two authors shall also be considered.
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Authors: Authors must submit their designations, current institutional affiliations, email and postal addresses and other such relevant details. Such details shall be mailed in a separate document and must not appear anywhere in the manuscript or the abstract.
How to Submit?
All submissions are to be sent to ijcl@nalsar.ac.in
Submission Deadline
The submissions are to be done by November 30, 2023.
Contact Information
For queries, please email: ijcl@nalsar.ac.in
