Ongoing Calls for Papers
NLSIU publishes eight open-access journals on the University’s Scholarship Repository (hosted by Elsevier’s Digital Commons platform). Our journals follow rigorous double-anonymous peer-review and editorial processes, and there are no fees involved. We invite submissions for our journals all year round. The latest ongoing calls for papers are listed below. You can read our journals here.
All the journals published by NLSIU welcome original, unpublished submissions across a range of categories, including Articles, Case Comments, Legislative Notes and Book Reviews.
Faculty Journals
National Law School Journal (NLSJ) | General Call for Papers
NLSJ is the flagship journal of NLSIU. A generalist law review, it is open-access, follows double-anonymous peer-review and has consistently published original contributions to contemporary legal scholarship on India and the developing world since 1989. This legacy journal was relaunched in 2022, and its Editorial Board includes the Vice-Chancellor of NLSIU and members of the faculty. NLSJ invites contributions from academics, practitioners and researchers across legal studies and allied interdisciplinary scholarship. The journal has published eminent scholars and jurists, in both its peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed sections, such as Justice Michael Kirby, Professor Ratna Kapur and Professor Brenda Cossman, among others. NLSJ is also committed to publishing rigorous novel research by emerging scholars.
We accept submissions on a rolling basis all year round. Please read our Submission Guidelines before submitting a paper.
You can submit your paper at repository.nls.ac.in/nlsj.
International Journal on Consumer Law and Practice (IJCLP) | Volumes 13 and 14 | General Issues
Deadline for Volume 13: January 31, 2026
Deadline for Volume 14: February 28, 2026
IJCLP invites submissions for its forthcoming general issues. A faculty-led, peer-reviewed academic journal, IJCLP is published annually by NLSIU under the aegis of the Chair on Consumer Law and Practice, NLSIU since 2013. It is indexed on SCOPUS, HeinOnline, and the SCC OnLine.
Previous issues have featured contributions by Justice AK Sikri (Judge, Supreme Court of India), HC Mult Norbert Reich (Emeritus Professor, Bremen University, Germany), Cristina Poncibò (Associate Professor, Comparative Private Law, University of Turin, Italy), Laura Zoboli (Assistant Professor, European Economic Law, University of Warsaw, Poland), James P Nehf (Professor and Cleon H Foust Fellow, Robert H McKinney School of Law Indiana University), Gail Pearson (Professor, University of Sydney, Australia) and Upendra Baxi (Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Warwick).
The journal welcomes contributions from academics, practitioners and students of law and allied fields. It features articles, essays and case notes on various themes, including but not limited to:
- Consumer welfare legislation and its implementation
- Consumer rights in the digital era
- Technological advancements in the enforcement of consumer rights
- Effectiveness of mediation as a tool to resolve consumer disputes
- The need for an international consumer protection framework and policy
Authors are encouraged to refer to the detailed Call for Papers and our Submission Guidelines.
To submit an article, visit: https://repository.nls.ac.in/ijclp/.
Journal of Law and Public Policy (JLPP)
Volume 9(2) | General Issue
Deadline: January 31, 2026
JLPP invites submissions for its forthcoming general issue. A faculty-led, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, JLPP seeks to publish rigorous, original scholarship on the interface of law and public policy. The journal welcomes submissions that examine the process of public interest decision-making and empirical, historical and comparative analyses that are grounded in theoretical debates. Articles must advance interdisciplinary approaches to law and justice with a strong focus on socio-economic and political contexts.
Authors are encouraged to refer to the detailed Call for Papers and the Submission Guidelines.
To submit an article, visit: https://repository.nls.ac.in/jlpp/.
Volume 9(2) | General Issue
Deadline: January 31, 2026
JLPP invites submissions for its forthcoming general issue. A faculty-led, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, JLPP seeks to publish rigorous, original scholarship on the interface of law and public policy. The journal welcomes submissions that examine the process of public interest decision-making and empirical, historical and comparative analyses that are grounded in theoretical debates. Articles must advance interdisciplinary approaches to law and justice with a strong focus on socio-economic and political contexts.
Authors are encouraged to refer to the detailed Call for Papers and the Submission Guidelines.
To submit an article, visit: https://repository.nls.ac.in/jlpp/.
Volume 10 (1) | Special Issue on New Urbanism and its Contours of Inclusion
Deadline: January 31, 2026
For this special issue on New Urbanism and its Contours of Inclusion, the Editorial Board of JLPP and the special issue guest editors, Aniket Nandan (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal) and Shaoni Shabnam (National Institute of Technology Meghalaya), invite submissions on the following themes:
- Informal housing, disposition and the politics of space
- Housing rights, social justice and economic policy
- Gentrification, inequalities and the future of scalable urban innovations
- Cultural landscapes, everyday urbanism and the changing identities of Indian cities
Authors are encouraged to refer to the detailed Call for Papers for this special issue and the journal’s Submission Guidelines.To submit an article, visit: https://repository.nls.ac.in/jlpp/.
Student Journals
National Law School of India Review (NLSIR) | Volume 37(2) | General Issue
Deadline: January 31, 2026
NLSIR invites submissions for its forthcoming issue—Volume 37(2). This flagship student-edited law review of the University is published biannually and follows double-anonymous peer-review. NLSIR is committed to publishing rigorous and original legal scholarship with relevance to Indian law and the Global South. Over the years, NLSIR has featured contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, including Hon’ble Justice (Retd.) DY Chandrachud (Former Chief Justice of India), Professor Michael Furmston, Professor Cass Sunstein, Professor Chan Wing Cheong, Professor Richard Whish and Professor Martin Hunter, among many others. The journal has also been cited four times by the Supreme Court of India, reflecting its sustained academic and doctrinal impact.
Authors are encouraged to consult the detailed Call for Papers and our Submission Guidelines.
To submit an article, visit repository.nls.ac.in/nlsir.
Socio-Legal Review (SLR) | Volume 22(2) | Special Issue
Deadline: March 15, 2026
SLR invites submissions for its forthcoming Special Issue, Volume 22 (2), on Law and History in South Asia. This student-run journal is open-access, peer-reviewed, and is published bi-annually by the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru.
The special issue is dedicated to the careful study of South Asian legal history, in light of the ongoing shift from earlier more formal conceptions of ‘law’s archive’, to a more critical reframing of the legal archive within the larger context of socio-legal scholarship. This has been accompanied by more creative interpretations of methods and sources. Existing scholarship has investigated the multifaceted realities of the law as both a source of oppression and emancipatory possibility, its varied interpretations and uses by people, communities, and institutions and its various genealogies across different fora and space-time contexts. With this special issue, SLR invites critical scholarship at the intersection of law and history which takes these debates forward.
Authors are encouraged to consult the detailed Call for Papers and Submission Guidelines available on the SLR website.
To submit an article, visit repository.nls.ac.in/slr.
Indian Journal of Law and Technology (IJLT) | Volume 21(2) | Special Issue
Deadline: January 31, 2026
IJLT invites submissions for its forthcoming Special Issue, Volume 21(2), on the theme Global South Perspectives on Technology Regulation. Published by the students of NLSIU, IJLT is an open-access, double-anonymous peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of the intersection of law and technology.
Commemorating twenty years since IJLT’s founding, this Special Issue seeks to reflect upon the journal’s intellectual trajectory, while foregrounding contemporary challenges that emerge from Global South contexts, pertaining to the adoption, contestation, and regulation of emerging technologies. These concerns are shaped by various factors, including differing institutional arrangements, developmental paths, and social, political and economic conditions.
Authors are encouraged to consult the detailed Call for Submissions and Submission Guidelines available on the IJLT website.
To submit an article, visit: repository.nls.ac.in/ijlt.
Indian Journal of International Economic Law (IJIEL) | Volume 17(1) | General Issue
Deadline: January 31, 2026
IJIEL invites submissions for its upcoming general issue, Volume 17(1). A student-edited, peer-reviewed law journal, IJIEL is published bi-annually by NLSIU, under the patronage of the Indian government-sponsored chair on WTO Law.
Past issues of IJIEL have featured contributions by luminaries in this field such as Katharina Pistor, Raj Bhala, Yogesh Pai, Fiona Smith, Faizel Ismail, Enrico Baffi, Lotta Viikari, Michelle Sanson, Jason R Bonin, Dr. Rafael Arcas and Colin Picker. We have also featured forewords by distinguished scholars such as Professor Arvind Subramaniam, Mr. Shashi Tharoor, Professor Jagdish Bhagwati and Professor Stephan Hobe. Our current Advisory Board is composed of Professor Dr. Petros C Mavroidis, Dr. Philip Baker KC, Professor Hans-Bernd Schafer and Dr. Raj Bhala.
Authors are encouraged to consult our detailed Call for Papers and Submission Guidelines before submitting their article.
To submit an article, please visit: repository.nls.ac.in/ijiel.
National Law School Business Law Review (NLSBLR) | Volume 12(1) | General Issue
Deadline: January 31, 2026 (although we accept submissions on a rolling basis throughout the year for other volumes).
NLSBLR invites original, unpublished manuscripts for its forthcoming general issue, Volume 12(1). The journal is a leading student-edited journal focused on business and commercial law and follows a double-anonymous peer-review process.
Over the years, NLSBLR has featured work by luminaries such as Justice V Ramasubramanian (Judge, Supreme Court of India), Professor (Dr.) James J Nedumpara (Head, Centre for Trade and Investment Law, WTO), Dr. Donna Huang (Director of ADR, ICC North Asia), Professor Ingeborg Schwenzer (Leading authority on the CISG, Professor Emerita at the University of Basel), Mr. Cesar Pereira (President, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators), Sr. Adv. Nakul Dewan, KC (Barrister, 20 Essex), Mr. Rajat Sethi (Founder, S&R Associates) and Ms. Nisha Kaur Oberoi (Competition Law Chair, JSA).
We encourage authors to go through the detailed Call for Papers as well as our Submission Guidelines. Manuscripts must be anonymised, submitted in .docx format, and must conform to the OSCOLA (4th ed.) style guide.
To submit an article, please visit: https://repository.nls.ac.in/nlsblr/.