Call for Submissions | Socio Legal Review & SLR Forum

The Socio-Legal Review (SLR) journal invites submissions for Volume 22 (1) of the Journal, to be published in 2026. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2026.

About the SLR Journal

Socio-Legal Review (SLR) is a peer-reviewed, bi-annual journal that encourages interdisciplinary research at the intersection of law and social sciences. It is an open-access, student-run journal published by the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru. First published in 2005, the Journal carries articles by luminaries in the field of law and society and has been cited by the Supreme Court of India on two instances.

SLR seeks to publish scholarship that goes beyond looking at the law as merely a set of rules and doctrines. It welcomes interdisciplinary research that critically enquires into the intersections between the law and the social sciences, especially in the South Asian context. SLR invites Articles, Notes from the Field, Case/Legislative Comments and Book Reviews from diverse disciplines and areas of study that engage with the law including but not limited to:

● ethnographic and anthropological studies of the everyday working of the law
● legal history and historical analyses of the law and legal institutions
● decolonial, post-colonial, Marxist, feminist, queer, class, anti-caste, and critical race studies perspectives toward the law
● social movements, and the law as a catalyst or impediment for social transformation
● public policy and planning, regulation, and governance and administration
● study of legal institutions, systems and cultures, and institutional reforms
● pedagogy, legal methods, and the intersection of legal theory and social/political theory
● identity, migration and citizenship studies
● environmental, land, and urban studies
● religion and minority studies
● bioethics, medico-legal, healthcare, and disability studies
● civil society, human rights, and socio-economic welfare
● criminal law, criminology, and law and justice
● law and the humanities, including literature, theatre, film, media studies, literary criticism, philosophy, and so on.

For details regarding its submission categories, editorial policies and submission process, please visit the SLR website. In case of any questions, please write to

Call for Contributions | SLR Forum

SLR is also accepting submissions on a rolling basis for its online platform ‘SLR Forum‘. In addition to the print journal, shorter pieces are published on this online platform. The SLR Forum is designed as a space for encouraging accessible and timely discourse on issues of socio-legal relevance including, but not limited to, contemporary developments. The team invites academics, students, and practitioners to engage with, and contribute to, the Forum.

Submissions are invited in the form of short essays, commentaries, and other forms of writing ranging from 800-2500 words. Like the SLR Journal, the Forum houses interdisciplinary research. SLR Forum does not accept pieces that consist of purely doctrinal or legal analysis; submissions must approach the issue through an interdisciplinary lens.

If you have a theme or an idea that you’d like to develop in an essay for the SLR Forum, the team will be glad to discuss your ideas over email. However, if you have a fully fleshed out piece, please submit it directly to .