Submission Guidelines

The CLS Blog is a student-edited, peer-reviewed and completely open-access blog maintained by the Constitutional Law Society, NLUO. We at CLS seek to provide a platform that promotes and sustains informed discussion and dialogue on emerging issues in the field of Constitutional Law. We further welcome original contributions from students, researchers, academicians, legal practitioners, and those who are enthusiastic to engage in academic discourse and widen the scope of the constitutional study for our readers through their creative and informative research works. Keeping the objective of our society, we highly encourage our authors to explore critical and multidisciplinary perspectives on constitutional developments in and beyond India. Hence with the above objectives in mind, we welcome all submissions on the field of Constitutional Law subject to the following guidelines:

Originality Requirements

  • The article should be an original work of the author and not under consideration for publication in any other journal or blog. All submissions will undergo a mandatory Turnitin similarity check. Therefore, the work should not have a similarity percentage more than 10%.
  • Submissions should completely refrain from relying on any AI-generated content. Detection of any such content shall lead to non-acceptance of the submission.
  • The copyright over the submissions shall automatically transfer to the University through the Editorial Board. All the articles shall be part of the University’s digital repository.
  • Authors implicitly permit the Editorial Board to share their works on various social media platforms upon submission.
  • The authors must provide a declaration along with their submission stating that it is their original work in the body of the email.

Submission Method

  • Co-authorship is allowed up to 2 authors for each submission.
  • Interested authors are requested to send their submissions in .doc/.docx format to editorial.cls@nluo.ac.in .
  • Submissions must be saved with the title of the blog, or an abbreviated version of the same, as the name of the file. No indication to the identity of the Author should be present within the manuscript.
  • Authors must include their full name and the details of their institution/organization in the body of the email. LinkedIn IDs, if existing, must be provided as part of details.
  • Authors must include a 50-word Abstract in another word document attached alongside their submission in the same mail.

Formatting Requirements

  • The word limit for submissions is about 1500 words, exclusive of endnotes. All sources/references must be cited via hyperlink.
  • Wherever a document being relied on as source is not publicly available on the Internet, authors must use endnotes and not footnotes.
  • The body of all submissions should be written in Times New Roman Font with a font size of 12. Line Spacing is to be maintained at 1.5. Text must be justified. There must be no indentation except for the purpose of delineating quotes, if necessary.
  • The following formatting standard must be followed for headings:
    • Title (Times New Roman, Font Size 14, Bold)
    • Heading Level 1 (Times New Roman, Font Size 12, Bold)
    • Heading Level 2 (Times New Roman, Font Size 12, Italics)
      • Heading Level 3 (Times New Roman, Font Size 12, Italics, Indented towards right, Numbered using capitalised roman numerals I, II, III…)

Review Process

  • The authors shall receive an acknowledgement email on the receipt of the blog by the Editorial Board within a few days of submission. In case this does not happen, authors are requested to follow-up with the Editorial Board in the same thread of their submission.
  • The Editorial Board follows a 2-tier review process at least, with the exception of a 3-tier review, if necessary.
  • The authors can expect a response from the Editorial Board regarding their submission status within 2 to 3 weeks from the date of acknowledgement. If authors are informed that their submission has passed the first stage of review, a response regarding the second stage may be expected in about a week.
  • Please ensure that the submissions already under review of the CLS NLUO Blog are not submitted to any other forum for review/publication. Any deviance from this guideline shall subject the further progress of the submission to the discretion of the Editorial Board.
  • In relation to all the disputes, the decision of the Editorial Board shall be final and binding.

Submission Categories

  1. Articles: Authors can submit articles on issues of contemporary constitutional relevance. The articles must aim to analyse the issue comprehensively. We encourage originality and a creative outlook in the analysis of the issue.
  2. Case Comments: Authors can choose to analyse a judgement/judgements from any forum having constitutional relevance. Authors must aim to explain the substance of the pleadings before the Courts and the impact of the Court’s understanding of Constitutional Law.
  3. Legislation Reviews: Authors can analyse the constitutionality of a legislation or various executive actions within or outside India, which have a significant impact on the understanding of constitutional law within India.

NOTE: All Submissions shall be reviewed on a rolling basis. CLS, NLUO follows a disciplined editorial review of the submissions received and exercises absolute discretion in accepting any submission. In case of any queries, feel free to contact us at editorial.cls@nluo.ac.in .

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