About the Call for Papers
The Journal is presently inviting submissions for its 16 th Volume, to be released tentatively by the end of 2026. We welcome contributions in the form of essays, articles, notes, and comments from undergraduate and postgraduate students, practitioners, faculty members, and academicians.
Submission Categories
- Articles
An article must comprehensively analyse the issue that the author seeks to highlight. It must thoroughly study the status quo or a contemporary issue. An article should be between 5,000‐6,000 words.
- Essays
An essay challenges existing paradigms/norms and provides a fresh outlook on common problems. It is strongly recommended that essays be considerably more concise than articles in terms of scope and conceptualization. An essay must thus ideally be between 3,000‐5,000 words.
- Notes
A note is a relatively concise form of an argument advanced by the author. The focus of a note should be on a relatively recent debate or controversy regarding the interpretation or implementation of the law. The word limit for a note is 2,500 words.
- Book Review/Comment
This category allows the author to discuss and critique any recent book or a recent landmark judicial pronouncement, legislation or pending bill. The word limit for this category is 2,500 words.
Submission Guidelines
- Text and citations must conform to the rules in OSCOLA (5 th edition). The Journal employs footnotes as the method of citation, with speaking footnotes being discouraged.
- The text of the submission must be in Times New Roman, size 12 and 1.5 spacing. The footnotes should be in Times New Roman, size 10 and single spacing.
- Co-authorship of up to maximum 4 authors per piece is permissible for manuscripts submitted to the journal. The Editorial Board may allow for a higher number of co-authors for a single submission on a case-to-case basis
- All submissions must be accompanied by:
- A separate document containing the authors’ biographical information, including the following details: Name, E‐mail address, Postal Address, Name and Address of Institution, Course (if applicable), and Academic Year. No reference to the author’s name or affiliations must be present in the text of the submission and must only be provided in this separate document.
- An abstract of not more than 350 words describing the submission. Please note that there is no requirement for prior submission of the abstract, as papers are selected for publication only on the basis of the full manuscript. The abstract shall serve merely to help the Editorial Board in its review process.
- Each submission must be the original work of its author(s). Any submissions found to be plagiarized from another source will be automatically rejected. To this end, a plagiarism check will be conducted as the first stage of evaluation.
- Submissions must be in accordance with the Submissions Guidelines and Editorial Policy. The contributions accepted for publication and the copyright therein shall remain jointly with the Author(s) and the IJIPL. Anyone desiring to use IJIPL’s material for educational purposes, research or private study can do so with the Publisher’s prior written permission (registrar@nalsar.ac.in).
- All author(s), by submitting any contribution towards IJIPL, hereby consent to indemnify NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad and IJIPL from and against all claims, suits and consequences based on any claim of copyright infringement/ unauthorized use/violation of any right which may arise as a result of their contribution being published in IJIPL.
- Authors must inform the Editorial Board if their manuscripts have been submitted to other journals. Authors may request an expedited review on these grounds, but the granting of the same is within the discretion of the Editorial Board.
How to Submit?
Please send the submissions to: ijipl@nalsar.ac.in. The subject line must read “Submission for Vol. 16”. Queries may be directed to the same ID with “Query | Vol. 16” in the subject line.
