The Society For Constitutional Law Discussion invites submissions wherein the central theme of the article deals with constitutional law covering relevant and contemporary legal and policy issues.
About The Society For Constitutional Law Discussion
In order to develop the culture of legal writing and discussion, some of the students of the Chanakya National Law University, Patna of Batch 2018-2023 came up with the idea of starting The Society For Constitutional Law Discussion. This Society vides its blog and Journal (JCS) will serve as a brilliant platform for the students to engage in constitutional law discussions and writing with their peer group and was also ranked as one of the best Constitutional Law Blogs by Feedspot of 2024.
Call for Submissions
The Society For Constitutional Law Discussion invites submissions wherein the central theme of the article deals with constitutional law covering relevant and contemporary legal and policy issues. Additionally, the Society encourages submissions which are analytical in nature and not merely descriptive. The submissions must ideally be argumentative and also contribute something new to the existing literature.
General Guidelines
The Editorial Board of The Society For Constitutional Law Discussion’s Blog invites submissions in keeping with the following guidelines:
Submissions shall be accepted on a rolling basis from students, legal professionals, teachers, researchers, policymakers, senior academicians, and any member of the legal and humanities fraternity.
Co-authorship of up to 2 authors is allowed.
The submission should be original, exclusive, and unpublished, and should not be under review by any similar platform. Non-adherence to this rule shall result in a rejection of the submission, irrespective of its quality.
The authors, by submitting their entries, will be deemed to have divested the copyright to TSCLD. However, all the moral rights shall remain with the Author(s).
The submission should reflect the original and unpublished work of the author(s). The Blog, however, permits a maximum similarity index of 15% and in no case a submission shall exceed this limit.
Formatting Guidelines
Submission in the Word document must adhere to the following formatting:
Heading Fonts should be set properly in the Word document itself. H1: Times New Roman; font size- 14, Bold.
Subsequent Headings should be set to a font size of 12, Bold.
Body: Font - Times New Roman; Font size- 12; line spacing- 1.5.
The document should be justified.
Use double quotes and italics when quoting verbatim.
References must be in the form of hyperlinks to primary sources, including any judgments, laws, treaties, or legal text that are referenced. Hyperlinks must link only to legal or respected news sources. The editors make the final decision over what constitutes a primary source. (Use of India Code for statutes and original Judgment from the website of the Hon’ble Court is suggested wherever necessary instead of Indian Kanoon).
Use of endnotes should be limited to circumstances where a hyperlink reference is not available. For endnotes, the Oxford University Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA) (4th Edition) must be adhered to.
Endnotes (if used) shall be in Times New Roman, font size 10, line spacing- 1.0 and justified.
No speaking endnotes are allowed.
Submission Procedure
Submission should be submitted via the Google Form available here.
Publication Timeline
The Editorial Board will take a minimum of 21 days to finalise the entire process i.e. reviewing, editing and final publication.
Contact
For any queries, contact us at articles@tscld.com or Ayush Agrawal at +91 70679 98810.