Theme
Any relevant theme pertaining to contemporary scholarly works on all fields of law will be welcome for consideration.
Submission Categories
Manuscripts on any topic of contemporary legal relevance meeting the below-mentioned criteria are welcome:
- Long Articles: 4,000-8,000 words
- Short Article: 3,000-4,000 words
- Case Notes/ Legislative Comments: 2,000-3,000 words
- Book Reviews: 1,000-2,000 words
Note: The word limit is exclusive of the abstract and the footnotes.
Submission Guidelines
- Manuscripts submitted to the Journal must not be co-authored by more than two persons. Authors are permitted to submit only one manuscript per individual author or as a team of co-authors, as the case may be.
- Manuscripts must include an abstract of not more than 300 words. The abstract must highlight the structure and the essence of the manuscript.
- The journal has a strict zero-tolerance policy for plagiarism.
- Authors are requested to strictly adhere to the Submission Guidelines.
- All the submissions must comply with the Copyright and Open Access Policy.
- Manuscripts not in conformity with the Submission Guidelines may be rejected at the sole discretion of the Editorial Board. The Editorial Board reserves the right to send the manuscripts back to the authors for any modification(s) at any stage, in the event of non-conformity with any of the submission guidelines.
- The Editorial Board may, in its discretion, waive any of the above rules or amend the process. In case of any dispute or ambiguity, the decision of the Editorial Board shall be final and binding.
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.
- Sub-headings within the main body: Times New Roman, size 12, title case, left aligned, in italics.
- The submissions 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.
- The Authors must comply with the Archiving Policy and not violate the Research Misconduct Policy of the Journal.
How to Submit?
- Interested candidates can submit entries via the link given at the end of the post.
- Submissions made through any other medium, including by way of emails, shall not be considered for review by the Editorial Board.
- All the submissions must be in (.docx) format. They must be word processed and compatible with Microsoft Word 2007 or above.
- The manuscript should not contain any information that can be used to identify the author(s). All the relevant details must be filled only within the form attached.
- Authors shall receive an email acknowledging the receipt of their manuscript within ten days of receiving the submission. If the same is not received, authors can write to us at dnluslj@mpdnlu.ac.in
Submission Deadline
Submissions must be made on or before 5th May 2026.
Contact:
For any further queries, contact us at dnluslj@mpdnlu.ac.in.
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