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The National Law School of India Review, the flagship journal of National Law School of India University, Bangalore is pleased to present the first NLSIR Public Law Symposium to be held on 10 December, 2011 at the National Law School campus. The theme of the symposium is “Adjudication of Socio-Economic Rights by the Indian Supreme Court“, an issue which has seen significant legal developments in the recent past. The symposium will be attended by renowned legal luminaries including Justice Muralidhar, Mr. T. R. Andhyarujina, Mr. Shyam Diwan and Mr. Arun Kumar Thiruvengadam, amongst others. The discussion will be divided into two sessions. In the first session (scheduled between 10.30 A.M.-12.30 P.M.) the panel will discuss the substantive adjudication of socio-economic rights undertaken by the Supreme Court concerning questions of the ever-widening ambit of Article 21 and the content of the new rights so evolved. The changing nature of the relationship between Part III and Part IV of the Constitution due to such expansion will form an important part of the session. The second session (scheduled between 1.30 P.M.-3.30 P.M.) will focus on the manner in which the Supreme Court has enforced these rights and consider the variety of procedural innovations employed for the same, including PILs and continuing mandamus. The registration fee for the symposium is Rs. 500 for professionals. There is no registration fee for students. All those interested are requested to register their attendance at the following link: . For any further details regarding the symposium, please contact Krishnaprasad K.V. (Chief Editor, NLSIR) at +91-9916589670 or Ashwita Ambast (Deputy Chief Editor, NLSIR) at +91-9986478265 or email us at mail.nlsir@gmail.com. We would be very grateful if this would be possible. Regards, Juhi Gupta, Editor, National Law School of India Review, 2011-12

The Indian Journal of Constitutional Law is an endeavour of the Constitutional Law Society at NALSAR, Hyderabad and the MK Nambyar SAARC Law Chair in Comparative Constitutional Studies to serve as a forum for the promotion of scholarship on core and comparative constitutional law issues. Published annually, the Journal comprises separate sections for articles, essays, case comments, legislative comments and book reviews.

The Journal is pleased to invite contributions for Volume 5, slated to be released in July 2011. Original, unpublished work in the fields of Constitutional and Comparative Constitutional Law and Theory may be made in accordance with the submissions guidelines, as laid down below:

Eligibility

The 2011 edition of the Journal will consider undergraduate student contributions in the form of case-comments, legislative comments and essays (restricted to 4,000 words). Post-graduate students, academicians and practising lawyers are welcome to submit for any category of the journal.

Publication Policy

The Journal publishes strictly original material. Therefore, manuscripts should not be intended for publication at any time during the period of consideration by the Journal, nor be previously published. Authors who have submitted their manuscript to the Board are also required to inform it of all prior possible copyrights on the work, pending submissions to other law reviews, and any other decision on the Author’s part to use the manuscript elsewhere. In keeping with its mandate of publishing absolutely original material, the Journal also adopts a stringent anti-plagiarism policy. Any manuscript containing any unattributed work is liable to be summarily rejected.

Submission Format

Authors are required to use The Bluebook (18th ed.) citation format for footnoting. As an exception to the rest of The Bluebook, speaking footnotes are not discouraged. Every submission must be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 350 words, which outlines the area of study and the conclusions drawn by the author(s). Manuscripts should also be accompanied by a Covering Letter containing the Author’s name, year of study (if applicable), name of college/university (if applicable), professional position (if applicable), postal address, phone number and e-mail id. These details must not be mentioned anywhere else within the body of the manuscript. Joint submissions by only twocontributors shall also be considered for publication.

All submissions, containing the manuscript, abstract and covering letter in separate Microsoft Word 2003 documents should be sent to submissions@ijcl.in.

The Journal accepts submissions on a rolling basis. The deadline for Volume 5 is 31st January 2011.

More information about the Indian Journal of Constitutional Law can be found on its website.

Socio-Legal Review

Socio-Legal Review welcomes contributions for its seventh volume to be released in 2011.

About the Journal

The Socio-Legal Review (SLR) is a student-edited, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal published annually by the Law and Society Committee of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. The Journal aims to be a forum that involves, promotes and engages students and scholars to express and share their ideas and opinions on themes and methodologies relating to the interface of law and society. Since a forum such as this is unfortunately not as ubiquitously available as one would hope, we are in many ways a niche journal. SLR thus features guest articles by eminent scholars as well as student essays, providing an interface for the two communities to interact.

The Journal subscribes to an expansive view on the interpretation of “law and society” thereby keeping its basic criteria for contributions simply that of high academic merit, as long as there is a perceivable link. This would include not just writing about the role played by law in social change, or the role played by social dynamics in the formulation and implementation of law, but also writing that simply takes cognizance of legal institutions/ institutions of governance/administration, power structures in social commentary and so on. Through this effort, the journal also hopes to fill the lacunae relating to academic debate on socio-legal matters among law students.

Guidelines for Submission

1. All contributions submitted to the journal should be original and should not be simultaneously considered by any other publication.
2. The Editorial Board has refrained from imposing a theme. A submission is welcome as long as it fits within the general mandate of the Journal, as outlined above.
3. Contributions should be mailed only in a soft copy to slr@nls.ac.in, the subject of the mail being ‘Submission for 2011 volume’. Biographical information is to be provided in a removable title page.
4. The Journal is accepting contributions for Articles and Short Articles. With reference to Articles, contributions should not ordinarily exceed 8000 words. With reference to Short Articles, contributions should not ordinarily exceed 3000 words. The Editorial Board reserves the right to reject without review manuscripts that exceed the word limit substantially. 
5. The last date for submission is November 30^th, 2010.  Submissions may, nevertheless, be made after this date.  They will be considered for publication in the next volume.
6. All submissions are to be made via e-mail as .doc documents (preferably Microsoft Word 2003).
7. SLR follows the Harvard Blue Book – A Uniform System of Citation (18^thedn.) style of referencing. Contributors are requested to comply with the same.

For any clarifications, please mail us at slr@nls.ac.in.