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The NLSIR invites submissions for the upcoming Volume 36(1) of its Journal as well as for the journal’s blog,  NLSIR Online.

NLSIR Journal

The NLSIR Editorial Board invites original, unpublished manuscripts for consideration for the upcoming Volume 36(1) of the Journal.

The National Law School of India Review (NLSIR) is the flagship student-edited law review published by the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru. It is a bi-annual, peer reviewed journal and holds the unique distinction of being cited thrice by the Supreme Court of India. NLSIR has also been cited by courts abroad, such as the High Court of South Africa.

NLSIR is a generalist law review and aims to:

• Publish scholarship of the highest calibre in Indian law.
• Publish comparative studies that yield unique insights for the development of Indian law.
• Promote legal scholarship with respect to India and the broader Global South.
• Promote deliberation on legal issues within the legal profession, the government, academia, industry, and civil society.
• Promote top quality legal writing with respect to law students and early-career legal academics.

Submission Guidelines for NLSIR Journal Volume 36(1)

All submissions, as a general rule, should conform to NLSIR’s mandate and aims and must have some relevance for Indian law.

Submissions may be made under any one of the following categories:

• Long Article (5,000 to 10,000 words): Submissions in this category are expected to engage with a topic, and existing literature, comprehensively, and offer an innovative reassessment. Purely theoretical pieces, e.g., pieces on jurisprudence or legal philosophy, are also welcome.
• Essay (3,000 to 5,000 words): Submissions in this category are much more concise and targeted in terms of issue identification and argumentation.
• Legislative/Case Comment (2,500 to 5,000 words): Submissions in this category are supposed to critique a contemporarily relevant judicial pronouncement or legislative measure.
• Book Review (2,000 to 3,000 words): Submissions in this category are supposed to engage with a recent book that is concerned with one or more legal issues.

Please note that all word limits are indicative in nature and exclusive of footnotes. The NLSIR Editorial Board is flexible with respect to the word count depending on the quality of the submission. Please refer to our submission guidelines for more information.

Submission Process

All submissions must be made via the NLSIR Digital Commons Repository. NLSIR does not accept submissions over email. NLSIR endeavours to revert to authors with the first round of editorial review within 4 weeks of submission.

The deadline for submissions is 28th February 2024.

Additional guidelines

• Please ensure that your submission is made as a Microsoft Word document (.docx).
• The manuscript should be anonymised and should not contain any personal identifiers (e.g., author name, institutional affiliation, personal acknowledgements, etc.).
• Manuscripts should be accompanied by a cover letter.
• Manuscripts should be accompanied by an abstract of around 150 words.

Contact Details

For any queries and concerns, please contact or visit the website.

NLSIR Online

NLSIR is currently inviting submissions on all areas of the law, including case comments, interdisciplinary analyses, comparative studies, etc.

NLSIR Online was launched as a companion blog to the NLSIR print journal in 2018. The goal of NLSIR Online is to provide a platform for concise, timely academic commentary on contemporarily relevant issues in the law that has relevance for Indian law. In terms of mandate, NLSIR Online mirrors the mandate of the print journal.

Submission Guidelines for NLSIR Online

• Submissions should be between 1,500 and 3,000 words approximately. However, we are flexible with the word count depending on the quality of the submission.
• The manuscript must be submitted via this Google Form. Current students at NLSIU, Bengaluru must submit their manuscripts via this special form.
• Manuscripts must be submitted in a .docx (Microsoft Word) format.
• Manuscripts must not contain any personal metadata or identifiers (e.g., author details, institutional affiliation, acknowledgements, etc.).
• Co-authorship is permitted.
• Submissions must be original and must not be under simultaneous consideration for publication on any other platform.
• All references must be hyperlinked.

For additional details, please refer to the detailed NLSIR Online Submission Guidelines.

All manuscripts submitted to NLSIR Online undergo a round of review by the NLSIR Editorial Board. NLSIR is committed to reverting to authors with a decision on publication within two to three weeks. NLSIR invites submissions on a rolling basis and does not have any fixed submission deadline.

For any queries and concerns with respect to NLSIR Online, please contact us at or visit our website.

Submissions for the Socio-Legal Review Journal

NLSIU’s Socio-Legal Review (SLR) Journal is currently inviting submissions for Volume 20(1). The deadline for submission is 31st January, 2024.

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, Bengaluru. First published in 2005, the Journal has carried 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. SLR welcomes interdisciplinary research that critically enquires into the intersections between the law and the social sciences, especially in the South Asian context. It invites articles 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, postcolonial, 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 reform
• 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.

In order to make your submission, please visit the website: https://repository.nls.ac.in/slr/
In case of any questions, please email:

Submissions for the Socio-Legal Review Forum

SLR is also accepting submissions on a rolling basis for their online platform: the SLR Forum. 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.

SLR invites submissions in the form of short essays, commentary, book reviews and other forms of writing ranging between 800-2500 words that speaks to the Aims and Scope of the Journal. SLR welcomes interdisciplinary research that critically enquires into the intersections between the law and the social sciences, especially in the South Asian context. SLR does not accept pieces that consist purely doctrinal or legal analysis; submissions must dissect the issue using an interdisciplinary lens.

If you have a theme or an idea that you’d like to develop in an essay for the SLR Forum, please send in your ideas over email. If you have a fully fleshed out piece, you are encouraged to submit it directly to .

In order to know more, please visit the website: https://repository.nls.ac.in/slr/  

We congratulate the NLSIU team, which was represented by Apratim Chandra Singh (Ist Year, LL.B), Aditya Nath (Ist Year, LL.B), Saumitra Khullar (Ist Year, LL.B), and Surya (external participant), at the Karnataka Quizzing Association (KQA’s) Legal Quiz in Bangalore, in November 2023.

Team 1 from NLSIU were adjudged as joint winners in the quiz competition.

NLSIU was represented by two teams, which were as follows –

Team 1 – Apratim Chandra Singh (Ist Year, LL.B), Aditya Nath (Ist Year, LL.B), Saumitra Khullar (Ist Year, LL.B), and Surya (external participant).

Team 2 – Pradnesh Kamat (Ist Year, B.A,LL.B), Kisna Shetty (Ist Year, B.A,LL.B), Chiranth Mukunda (Ist Year, B.A, LL.B), and Lohith Reddy (Ist Year, B.A,LL.B)

This was an open event and saw participation from individuals from across multiple arenas in life as well as seasoned quizzers from the circuit.

About the Competition

The Karnataka Quiz Association (KQA for short) was founded in 1983 by eight quiz enthusiasts with the objective of putting the game on an organized basis and regulating and coordinating quizzing activity in Bangalore and other centres in Karnataka.

Apart from general quizzes, KQA does quizzes on specialized subject like Science, Movies, Music, Literature and so on. Most of the programmes are team events but we do conduct a few singles events in three different categories to identify individual talent. Further details available here.

 

 

 

NLSIU, invites applications for a Senior Research Consultant under the ‘Preparation of Manual for Prosecution of Offences under Forest Conservation Act (FCA) 1980’ project. It is a contractual assignment (6 months), based out of Bangalore.

The position is under the Centre for Environmental Law, Education, Research and Advocacy (CEERA), National Law School of India University, Bangalore.

The Centre for Environmental Law Education, Research and Advocacy (CEERA) established in 1997 is a research centre that focuses on research and policy advocacy in the field of environmental law. Building an environmental law database, effectively networking among all stakeholders, undertaking training and capacity development exercises, providing consultancy services and building an environmental law community are CEERA’s main objectives. It enjoys the support of the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change, other Ministries, international organisations, and the Bar and the Bench in India.

Role Description

• Collecting and analysing all criminal prosecution cases under FCA
• Drafting the procedure for filing complaints under FCA
• PCR and filing criminal complaints under FCA and identification and documentation of evidence
• Enlisting forest offences and related crimes

This is a full-time role, based at NLSIU campus (Nagarbhavi) in Bangalore. The candidate will report to the Project Coordinator.

Who Should Apply?

• Degree in Law/ LLM with prior knowledge of criminal law litigation and research, especially in environmental law. Preference will be given to candidates who hold a additional degree/diploma in criminal law.
• Excellent research and writing skills (preference will be given to candidates with prior publications).
• At least five years of experience as a Researcher including designing and conceptualising research projects.
• In addition, the candidate must have:
  • Ability to work in a team, contributing to both team and individual goals
  • Ability to meticulously use different legal research databases, especially case and litigation papers.
  • Good communication, organising and time management skills.

How to apply?

To apply fill out the Google Form here with:

• An Updated CV
• A short statement of purpose (not more than 500 words)
• One Writing sample of not more than 2000 words

Deadline

The last date for submission of applications is 6^th December 2023.

NLSIU invites applications (on a rolling basis) for full-time Executive and Senior Executive positions for the University’s Academic Administration Office, for a period of one year (extendable).

Executive (Consultant) – Academic Administration – 03 positions

Requirements

1. A graduate or postgraduate degree.
2. 0-3 years in an administrative or operations role (preferred).
3. Excellent general skills with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and IT skills.
4. High analytical ability. Prior experience in data management and analysis is preferred
5. Strong communication skills, both written and oral.
6. Excellent interpersonal skills, fostering teamwork and a collaborative work ethic.
7. Critical thinking and ability to suggest alternatives.

Roles and responsibilities

1. Supporting the administration of courses through course registration and setting up courses on LMS.
2. Student enrollment on ERP and LMS
3. Creating timetable on ERP and managing the logistics of classes
4. Scheduling and management of faculty office hours
5. Updation of attendance and analysis
6. Managing the logistics of examination process
7. Result tabulation and grade publishing
8. Contributing to University-wide requirements for reporting data for different ranking work
9. Query management & Helpdesk responsibilities
10. Supporting convocation process

Senior Executive (Consultant) – Academic Administration – 03 positions

Requirements

1. At least 2-3 years of experience in an administrative or operations role.
2. Prior experience in working in an academic setting and on an ERP and LMS or similar tools.
3. Excellent analytical skills, collation skills, communication skills (written and oral), technical skills and time-management skills.
4. Self-driven and collaborative.
5. Must have the ability to work independently and provide attention to detail, and be data-driven.
6. Excellent proficiency in ERP, MS Office, Gmail, Google Documents and Google Sheets.
7. Excellent ability to multitask and work well under pressure.
8. Must take full ownership of assigned projects and work independently.
9. Excellent interpersonal skills, fostering team work and a collaborative work ethic.
10. Critical thinking and ability to suggest alternatives.

Roles and responsibilities

1. To support and effectively manage all the end-to-end academic processes for the University and work closely with faculty to assist in course delivery in physical and online modes
2. Academic planning before and during trimester as follows:
3. Create list of courses to be taught each semester
4. Assign instructors in consultation with faculty group coordinators
5. Communicate list of courses and instructors in time for the creation of time tables
6. Ensure that course design is initiated and completed on time
7. Maintain an up-to-date repository of course and curriculum documents
8. Communicate with faculty about grading, deadlines and ensure that grading is accurate, completed and declared on time
9. To manage the University academic timetable
10. To manage end-to-end examination workflow (question paper verification, timetables, answer scripts management, grade publishing) in a timely manner.
11. To support the assessment and grading process
12. To help and support the Convocation process
13. To manage the admissions process including on-boarding selected students onto the ERP system
14. To be responsible for the management and analysis of attendance
15. To support the process of advertisement, applications, and allocations and uploading of courses onto the LMS for Elective Courses every trimester
16. To manage the day to day ‘MIS’ and other reporting mechanisms
17. To coordinate NAAC, NIRF and other ranking related activities
18. Query management & Helpdesk responsibilities

Compensation

Salary will be commensurate to the candidate’s educational background, qualifications, and relevant experience.
NLSIU is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our institution.

How to Apply?

Interested candidates for the above mentioned positions may apply by filling out this Google form. This advertisement will be on a rolling basis.

For any queries, please write to

NLSIU has partnered with the Kannada Gottilla team to conduct sessions to orient and teach our students, faculty & staff, daily conversational Kannada. The classes would be conducted in hybrid mode by professionals from the Kannada Gottilla team for a period of 45 days. At the end of the course, participants will be equipped with basic conversational Kannada required to navigate the city and its services. For example, you would be capable of communicating with auto drivers, receiving directions, conversing with traffic cops, etc., without any difficulty. This would aid effective communication with the locals.

What you will learn:

1.Classroom session: Pronouns, simple sentences with formula, verbs, -ing form, most commonly used tenses and formula to remember it, basic conversations. Games or interactive sessions

2.WhatsApp class: Daily usage of words, sentences and daily assignments.

Faculty and staff interested in participating in this learning experience are requested to make their full advance payment by 15^th November  2023. For further details, please reach out to the Student Welfare Officer (SWO), Ms. Sunita Prabhu at .

This is the fourth iteration of the conversational Kannada classes conducted by the Kannada Gothilla team at NLSIU. The first session was held online in 2020, followed by the second and third in 2022 and 2023 respectively.

 

 

The National Law School of India University, Bangalore invites sealed bids for “Pandal and Decoration Arrangement for 31st Annual Convocation Ceremony of NLSIU, Bengaluru” from eligible bidders.

Description of Work	Pandal and Decoration Arrangement for 31st Annual Convocation of NLSIU, Bengaluru which is scheduled to be held on 26.08.2023
Proposed venue	GKVK Auditorium
Date of Issue of Quotation	28.7.2023
Last Date for Submission	Up to 5.00 PM on 02.8.2023

For more details, please view the official notification here.

 

1. Can you tell us more about yourself and your work?

I was born and raised in Kolkata and moved to Delhi for college education. After completing an integrated undergraduate degree in law and humanities at NLU Delhi, I briefly worked as a legal associate in the Delhi office of the law firm Amarchand Mangaldas. Realizing that my true calling was academics, I went back to NLU Delhi to teach legal history and simultaneously pursued an LLM specializing in Public Law. Following this, I read for BCL at the University of Oxford on a Felix Scholarship where I studied jurisprudence and political theory, constitutional theory, comparative equality law, and law in society. After receiving a robust training in analytical theory, I moved to the University of Cambridge to pursue an MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies on a Malaysian Commonwealth Studies bursary.

During my MPhil year, I wrote a dissertation on Rabindranath Tagore’s idea of state, society and nation, that received the CA Bayly prize for best dissertation. For a more in-depth intellectual engagement with the questions that my MPhil project threw up, I undertook doctoral studies at the Faculty of History in Cambridge, funded by the Cambridge Trust scholarship. My PhD thesis reconstructs Tagore as an original thinker of selfhood, sovereignty, law, freedom and universality. It shows how he went beyond the formal boundaries of politics to remake the  scope and terms of the political through his critical and creative engagement with religion, education, philosophy and aesthetics. While I have been shaped by all the cities and institutions I have inhabited thus far, my doctoral experience has been the most fulfilling. It has enabled me to finally bring together my interest in history, law and politics on the one hand, and theory, philosophy and humanities on the other, in an original way.

2. What are your main areas of interest and teaching? How did your interest in these areas begin?

I am a historian of legal and political thought researching on the key ideas that have shaped democratic and constitutional cultures of modern South Asia in the progressively global context of colonialism and capitalism from the 18t to the 20th centuries. Sidestepping the usual characterization of this period as one only marked by coercive violence, my scholarship shows how an active intellectual ferment in the Indian subcontinent fostered new ideas of liberty, equality and fraternity that did not depend on a wholesale rejection or acceptance of their European origin and history. Situating myself in the new and important scholarship of canonizing South Asian political thought, I interpret and analyze the practical choices made by Indian actors and thinkers, shot with both realism and idealism, that produced radically modified political and moral visions and vocabularies.

At Cambridge, I have taught courses on “Gandhi and self-rule”, modules on fundamental political concepts in world history in “Historical Arguments and Practices” and “Theory and Practice in History and Politics”. I have also taught and supervised papers on modern India and the global history of empires.

On developing interest in these areas:

Despite a solid legal education in India and the UK, I wanted to go beyond its abstract generality and therefore turned to the social sciences for a more grounded approach to the study of law, history and politics. Gradually, with a keen interest in humanities and philosophy, I have been able to bring my love for ideas and context together in a rich  intellectual framework. This renewed turn to theory would not have been possible without the fertile and creative space of imagination provided by the Cambridge historians of political thought.

4. What will you be teaching at NLS?

In keeping with my interest in Public Law, I am currently teaching Indian Administrative Law in the March 2023 term. The birth of modern administrative law involved the state shedding its laissez-faire orientation towards society and assuming a more active interventionist role in providing social and economic services to the people. Administrative law not only studies the architecture of the state associated with the welfare function but also its legal regulation based on different techniques and principles.

In the terms ahead, I hope to offer other core courses in public law, including, constitutional law and comparative law, as well as electives on my area of specialization in the history of political thought. I wish to offer courses on topics such as “Gandhi, Tagore and self-rule”, “Sex and gender in Indian Political Thought” and the “Intellectual history of freedom in the non-west”.

5. Your thoughts on starting your teaching journey at NLS? What are your plans ahead?

I joined NLS not only for its traditional pedigree as India’s premiere law school but also because this would give me an opportunity to teach and engage with some of the best students in the country who are equally representative of its social diversity. Moreover, I look forward to a generative intellectual exchange with an exciting bunch of colleagues both in law as well as the social sciences.

Other than teaching, my future plan is to pursue further research, including, converting my doctoral thesis into a monograph on Tagore’s political thought, and additionally, writing standalone articles on select themes in law, history and politics.

6. Could you highlight some of your key projects or publications?

My five key publications in the recent years are:

• Salmoli Choudhuri (2021). “Theology of the “Absent King” and the Possibility of Rabindranath Tagore’s Political Thought.” Political Theology.
• Salmoli Choudhuri (2021). “Book Review: Imre Bangha (Ed.) Tagore. Beyond His Language.” South Asia Research Vol 41, No. 3: 440–43. 
• Salmoli Choudhuri (2021). “Gender conflict over temple entry and the limits of legalizing identity politics in contemporary India.” Political Theology Network  (co-authored). 
• Salmoli Choudhuri (2016). “Ambedkar’s Liberty Concept in Comparative Constitutional Thought.” Indian Yearbook of Comparative Law (Oxford University Press) (co-authored).
• Salmoli Choudhuri (2023, forthcoming). “Sovereignty Before Law.” Global Intellectual History (co-authored).

To view more of her publications, please visit her faculty profile.

 

Can you tell us more about yourself?

My family hails from Delhi and it is where I was born and brought up. I completed my undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Law from National Law University, Delhi. I specialised in Business Laws at the Master’s level and wrote my dissertation on ‘Data Exclusivity in Healthcare and Access to Pharmaceutical Products in India’. I then went on to pursue a specialised Masters in Health and Medical Law at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne.

My family instilled the importance of education in me from the very childhood. Education indeed has the power to change lives, and bridge social gaps. Since childhood I have been very inquisitive, and as a teenager I loved to question and know more about almost everything around me. My mother has played a major role in motivating me and helping me pursue my hobbies along with my studies.

On the personal front, I like travelling and painting and firmly believe that one can learn so much more about life from the hobbies and extracurricular activities one pursues. I undertook a one-month Thangka painting training workshop at the Thangde Gatsal Art School at Dharamshala and have trekked to the Sunderdhunga and Kafni Glaciers situated in the Kumaon Himalayas.

What are your main areas of interest and teaching? How did your interest in these areas begin?

My main areas of interest are the legal and regulatory aspects of health. My interest in health law particularly began with a seminar elective course on Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines that I took in the final year of my undergraduate law degree at the National Law University, Delhi. This was an eye-opener for me as it helped me critically analyse the intricacies of intellectual property rights and its impact on access to affordable medicines. I went on to further explore the issue relating to the data exclusivity regime and its impact on access to pharmaceutical products in India as part of my LL.M. dissertation.

Apart from being interested in health and medical law, I thoroughly enjoy teaching Law of Evidence and have also previously taught Forensic Science and the Law to undergraduate law students. What is interesting and must be appreciated about the criminal procedure laws is that its very purpose is to do justice not only to the society and the victim, but also to the accused.

Your thoughts on starting your teaching journey at NLS? What are your plans ahead?

I am very excited to be a part of the vibrant NLS community. I believe that there is a lot to learn at NLS and I would like to contribute towards the institution to the best of my abilities. Apart from beginning to teach certain core courses at NLS, I would also like to offer certain electives, particularly on health and medical law.

I also plan to dedicate a major portion of my time to researching certain niche and unexplored areas in the health and medical law sphere. This area of law has specifically gained a lot of prominence during the times of pandemic, but is not just limited to the regulatory and legal issues that arose as a result of the COVID pandemic. Through research, I would like to look at these issues from an Indian perspective and contribute towards the existing scholarship.

Could you highlight some of your key projects or publications?

I co-authored a paper titled “Sustainable Development Through Smart Cities: Issues and Challenges” that was published in Indian Journal on Environmental Protection in September 2022. I am currently working on a paper on the ‘Right to not know’ and another one which analyses the concept of ‘health security’ from a bottoms-up approach by giving due weightage to the interests and contributions of all segments of our society.

To reach out to Bhanu, please write to