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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All the journals published by NLSIU welcome original, unpublished submissions across a range of categories, including Articles, Case Comments, Legislative Notes and Book Reviews.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-led 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 14 | General Issue
Deadline for Volume 14 extended to: May 30, 2026

IJCLP invites submissions for its forthcoming general issue. 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 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, Dr. Aniket Nandan (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal) and Dr. 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-led Journals

Socio-Legal Review (SLR) | Volume 22(2) | Special Issue
Deadline: April 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 International Economic Law (IJIEL) | General Call for Papers

IJIEL is a student-edited and peer-reviewed law journal, 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 Professor Katharina Pistor, Professor Raj Bhala, Dr. Yogesh Pai, Professor Fiona Smith, Professor Faizel Ismail, Professor Enrico Baffi, Professor Lotta Viikari, Dr. Michelle Sanson, Dr. Jason R Bonin, Rafael Arcas and Professor 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.

We accept submissions on a rolling basis all year round. 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) |General Issue
Deadline: March 31, 2026

NLSBLR invites original, unpublished manuscripts for its forthcoming issues. The journal focuses on business and commercial law, and follows a double-blind 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 read through the detailed Call for Papers and our Submission Guidelines. Manuscripts must be anonymised, submitted in .docx format, and conform to OSCOLA (4th ed.). Submissions should be made on our digital platform; for details, see here.

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