Call For Papers: NLIU Journal For
Labour and Employment Law
The Centre for Labour Law (CLL) at the National Law Institute
University, Bhopal is proud to announce the Call for Papers for Volume
1 of the NLIU Journal for Labour and Employment Law (JLEL) - an
annual peer-reviewed journal
About JLEL Theme
The NLIU-JLEL is a peer-reviewed We welcome original, genuine and
annual labour and employment unpublished contributions from
law journal which aims to create students, academicians and
meaningful debate and discourse practitioners for the Journal. The
to build a fair and equitable Journal is accepting submissions
regime of workspace laws and to under the broad theme of
study the dynamic confluence of "Labour and Employment Laws"
the academic and the human including inter alia industrial
resource represented by such disputes, discrimination, gig
laws. economy, exploitation, minimum
wage, restraint of trade, and
whistleblowing. However, the
submissions must be of
contemporary relevance.
Categories of Submissions
The submission can be made under any of the following
categories:
Articles (4000 to 8000 words)
The article must be comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the problem(s)
or idea(s) dealt with by the author and should include references to a range
of sources and contributions in the form of alternatives and suggestions.
Essays (2000 to 4000 words)
The essay must be an analysis of the problem(s) or idea(s) dealth with by
the author and should include references to a range of sources and
contributions in the form of alternatives and suggestions.
Case Comment (2000 to 5000 words)
The comment must be a critical analysis of a recent judgement, bringing out
its relevance in light of development of laws, view expressed in the
judgement and views of the author(s).
Book Review (1000 to 3000 words)
The review must be a crisp account of a recently published book including
the issues explored and the related arguments of the author.
Legislative Comment (2000 to 4000 words)
The comment must analyse a recent legislative enactment. It must examine
the objective of the legislation and the legal impact the same is expected to
have.
The word limit is inclusive of footnotes but exclusive of abstract.
Submission Guidelines
All original submissions must be accompanied by an abstract not exceeding 300 words,
which should be included within the document of the manuscript itself. The abstract
must expressly include the novelty and usefulness of the idea that the author wishes to
put forth and must categorically mention the specific contribution of the submission,
beyond the existing available literature , the practical utility of their recommendation.
All submissions must be in MS Word format (.doc) or (.docx), with Times New
Roman font (body: size 12, line spacing: 1.50; footnotes: size 10, line spacing: 1.00).
The Journal uses only footnotes (and not endnotes) as a method of citation. The
footnotes must follow the Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities
(OSCOLA, 4th Edition).
The submissions must be accompanied by a cover letter with details regarding the
name of the author(s), email address, contact number and name and address of the
institution, academic qualifications/affiliations of the author(s), title of manuscript.
The author(s) must provide a declaration of originality with regards to their
submission in the body of the email .
The manuscript itself must not contain any information as to the name(s) of the
author(s), the institution, address or any other information that may reveal or
indicate their identity.
Co-authorship is permitted for up to 2 authors. However, co-authorship is not
allowed in case of Case Comment, Book Review and Legislative Comment.
Submissions are accepted for publication on the condition that they do not infringe
the copyright or any other rights of any third parties.
Submissions made should be on an exclusive basis i.e submission should be
unpublished and should not be under any concurrent consideration.
All submissions must be made to
[email protected] before 23:59 hours,
30th September 2020.
About NLIU About CLL
NLIU is one of India's premier law The Centre for Labour Laws was
school. It has always fostered established in 2019 with the
partnerships at both the national intention of fostering awareness
and international level to cater to and facilitating research in the field
the interests of the students. The of labour and employment law. The
University endeavours to enhance Centre is one of a kind and serves
the legal landscape of India and an embodiment of labour rights
contribute to society with the help for the brick bearers of the nation -
of its experienced and dedicated our workers. It provides several
staff and bright young minds , avenues to the students to explore
providing an excellent platform or the realm of labour and
its students to gain invaluable employment laws and develop the
experience by maintaining ties with foundations required to be a
top labour and employment firms successful practitioner in the field.
throughout the country and CLL undertakes a variety of
abroad. It boasts of alumni that engagements to further this aim
have excelled in areas of labour and to foster interest and aptitude
and employment law and have among students for labour and
made great strides in their employment law. Some of our
respective fields. The University flagship initiatives include the
seeks to provide its students with Labour and Employment Law Blog,
an environment which is a healthy Legal Awareness Program and
mix of fervour, idealism, experience Mazdoor Mitra.
and moderating values and to
inculcate in them the knowledge, Visit the CLL Blog at:
confidence and competence to cll.nliu.ac.in
become able lawyers of tomorrow.
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