The Socio-Legal Review, the student edited peer reviewed journal of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore is holding the 2nd Annual SLR Essay Competition.
Students from law schools and other undergraduate courses in India and around the world can participate and submit their essays on the topics mentioned below.
1. Emergent Civil Society: Redefining or negating participative democracy?
2. Rule of Law in Fledgling Societies: Is parliamentary democracy still the best solution? Discuss and highlight possible alternatives in light of the Arab Spring and Occupy Protests.
3. Freedom of Speech and Role of the Media: To what extent can and should the Press Council of India regulate content and reduce sensational Journalism
Word Limit: 2,500 to 3,000 words (exclusive of footnotes) and the essay is to be submitted via email tosociolegalreview.nls@gmail.com and the deadline for submissions is 30th April, 2012. Joint submissions are not permitted. The essay competition is supported by a trust floated by Smt and Sri S.V.Joga Rao (visiting professor, NLSIU) in memory of their parents.
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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, India’s premier legal educational institution. The Journal aims to be a forum that involves, promotes and engages students and scholars to express and share their ideas on themes relating to the interface of law and society. SLR thus features guest articles by eminent scholars as well as student essays, providing an interface for the two communities to interact. In furtherance of this objective, SLR has adopted an open access policy, making all its issues freely accessible.
SLR has received support from the prestigious Modern Law Review. It has featured articles by distinguished scholars, academics and practitioners such as W.T. Murphy, Rajeev Dhavan, Roger Cotterrell and Sudha Ramalingam.
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 encourage academic debate on socio-legal matters among law students.
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CALL FOR PAPERS FOR 2011-2012
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Vol 7 (2011)
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Notes from the Field
Book Reviews
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