Call for Papers: Trade, Law & Development

 Trade, Law and Development

Call for Submissions

 

General Issue

Issue 15.2| Winter’ 23

 

Founded in 2009, the philosophy of Trade, Law and Development (TL&D) has been to generate and sustain a constructive and democratic debate on emergent issues in international economic law and to serve as a forum for the discussion and distribution of ideas. Towards these ends, the Journal has published works by noted scholars such as the WTO DDG Yonov F. Agah, Dr. (Prof.) Ernst Ulrich Petersmann, Prof. Steve Charnovitz, Prof. Petros Mavroidis, Prof. Mitsuo Matsuhita, Prof. Raj Bhala, Prof. Joel Trachtman, Dr. (Prof.) Gabrielle Marceau, Prof. Simon Lester, Prof. Bryan Mercurio, and Prof. M. Sornarajah among others. TL&D also has the distinction of being ranked the best journal in India across all fields of law for several years by Washington and Lee University, School of Law.

Accordingly, the Board of Editors of TL&D is pleased to invite original, unpublished manuscripts for publication in the Special Issue of the Journal (Vol. XV, No. 2) in the form of ‘Articles’, ‘Notes’, ‘Comments’ and ‘Book Reviews’.

Manuscripts received by August 05, 2023, pertaining to any area within the purview of international economic law will be reviewed for publication in the Winter’22 issue.

Manuscripts may be submitted via e-mail or via the Journal’s website here. For further information about the Journal, please click here. For submission guidelines, please click here. In case of any queries, please feel free to contact us at: editors[at]tradelawdevelopment[dot]com.

 

Last Date for Submissions: August 05, 2023

 

 

PATRON: P.P. Saxena | ADVISORS: Raj Bhala | Jagdish Bhagwati | B.S. Chimni | Glenn Wiser | Daniel B. Magraw, Jr. | Vaughan Lowe | Ricardo Ramirez Hernandez | W. Michael Reisman | M. Sornarajah | FACULTY-IN-CHARGE: Dr. Rosmy Joan | BOARD OF EDITORS: Ananya Awasthi | Ria Chaudhary | Priyanshu Shrivastava| Simran Bherwani| Sunchit Sethi| Shiva Patil| Anoushka| Chathurya Srinivasan| Himanshu Sharma| Nivedita Sharma| Alka Mahapatra | Anandita Srivastava | Ishaan Pant | Krishna Ravishankar | Nalin Agnihotri|Neel Rao | Samiksha Lohia | Shambhavi Uniyal | Sonali P. Raju | Aastha Gupta | Akanksha Samantray | Ansh Sethi | Bianca Bhardwaj | Manvi Goyal | Nandini Tripathi | Thejas Velaga| Y. Leela Krishna Reddy | Yug Gandhi

NLS Business Law Review: A National Law School of India University Journal: Call for Submissions

NLS Business Law Review

A National Law School of India University Journal

Call for Submissions

The Board of Editors of the National Law School Business Law Review is pleased to invite original and unpublished manuscripts for publication in Volume 6 of the Review.

About the Journal

The NLS Business Law Review is an initiative by the National Law School of India University to recognise and foster academic research and scholarship in corporate and commercial law.

The NLSBLR has featured scholarship by a wide range of leading academics, practitioners, and luminaries, such as Justice V. Ramasubramanian (Supreme Court of India), Phillip R. Wood (QC, Allen and Overy LLP), Prof. James J. Nedumpara (Jindal Global Law School) Rajat Sethi (Founding and Managing Partner, S&R Associates), Prof. Régis Bismuth (Sciences Po) and Prof. Anurag K. Agarwal (IIM Ahmedabad).

Mandate

The law review intends to examine the interface between the myriad regulatory frameworks that impact doing business in India, particularly in light of comparative international perspectives. The mandate of the NLS Business Law Review thus includes company law, securities and capital markets regulation, banking and finance, taxation, foreign investment, competition law, commercial dispute resolution, contract and commercial law, and employment law inter alia.

Submission Categories

The NLS Business Law Review (NLSBLR - Volume 6) is accepting submissions under the following categories:

▪          Articles (6,000 – 10,000 words) are comprehensive publications that analyse important themes, and may adopt comparative perspectives.

▪          Essays (4,000 – 6,000 words) typically identify a specific issue, which may be of contemporary relevance, and present a central argument.

▪          Case Notes, Legislative Comments, Book/Article Reviews (1,500 – 3,000 words).

Guidelines for Submissions

●        Submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis. Currently, the Journal is inviting submissions for its 6th Volume. The deadline for sending submissions for the forthcoming volume is December 20, 2019.

●        Submissions must be made in electronic form to nlsblr@nls.ac.in under the subject heading ‘NLSBLR Vol. 6 Submission: <Submission Category>’.

●        All submissions must be in MS Word format (.doc) or (.docx), with Times New Roman font (Main text: size 12 and double spaced, footnotes: size 10 and single-spaced).

●        All manuscripts must be accompanied by a covering letter with the name(s) of the author(s), institution/affiliation, the title of the manuscript, and contact information.

●        An abstract of not more than 250 words shall have to be provided.

●        Co-authorship (up to 2 authors) is permitted.

●        No biographical information or references, including the name(s) of the author(s), affiliation(s) and acknowledgements should be included in the text of the manuscript, file name or document properties. All such information may be incorporated in the covering letter accompanying the manuscripts.

●        The NLSBLR uses only footnotes (and not endnotes) as a method of citation. Submissions must conform to the Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities.

●        Submissions are accepted for publication on the condition that they do not infringe the copyright or any other rights of any third parties.

●        Submissions made to NLSBLR shall be on an exclusive basis and must not be concurrently under consideration by any other publication.

●        Submissions must fall within the general mandate of the journal, which can be found at https://nlsblr.com/.

Contact

In the event of any queries, please contact Shambhavi Shivdikar, Editor-in-Chief or Aman Vasavada, Deputy Editor-in-Chief at nlsblr@nls.ac.in.

BOARD OF EDITORS

Shambhavi Shivdikar     Aman Vasavada

Prithvi Joshi     Vansh Aggarwal     Radhika Sarda                  Divyansh Mishra     Vasu Aggarwal

Observer Editors

Aditi Sheth      Meghana Senthil Kumar

               TECHNICAL EDITOR                                          Faculty Advisor

                 Prakhar Pipraiya                                 Prof. Yashomati Ghosh

BOARD OF ADVISORS

Mr. Alexander von Reden	Mr. V. Niranjan	Prof. Dr. N. Balasubramanian
Mr. Harish B. Narasappa	Mr. Nishith Desai	Prof. M.P. Padmanabha Pillai
Mr. Mihir Naniwadekar	Mr. Nizam Pasha	Dr. V. Umakanth

Call for Papers: NLSIR

Call for Papers: The National Law School of India Review

About NLSIR

The National Law School of India Review (NLSIR) is now accepting submissions for its upcoming issue – Volume 32(1). The NLSIR is the flagship law review of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India. The NLSIR is a bi-annual, student edited, peer-reviewed law journal providing incisive legal scholarship on issues that are at the forefront of contemporary legal discourse. In the past 31 years, the NLSIR has regularly featured articles authored by judges of the Indian Supreme Court, senior counsels practicing at the Indian bar, and several renowned academics from national and foreign universities.

The most recent volume of the NLSIR, Vol. 31, will feature contributions by Professor Anthony Cassimatis (TC Beirne School of Law, Australia), Professor Philippe Cullet (School of Oriental and African Studies, London) and Professor Kalpana Kannabiran (Council for Social Development, Hyderabad), among several others. Moreover, NLSIR has the distinction of being cited twice by the Supreme Court of India, with the latest one in the landmark judgment in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India. NLSIR has also recently been cited in Justice R. S. Bachawat’s Law of Arbitration and Conciliation, a leading treatise on arbitration law in India.

Submission Categories                                         

Submissions are accepted for the following categories:

1. Long Articles: Between 5,000 and 10,000 words. Papers in this category are expected to engage with the theme and literature comprehensively, and offer an innovative reassessment of the current understanding of that theme. It is advisable, though not necessary, to choose a theme that is of contemporary importance. Purely theoretical pieces are also welcome.
2. Essays: Between 3,000 and 5,000 words. Essays are far more concise in scope. These papers usually deal with a very specific issue and argue that the issue must be conceptualized differently. They are more engaging and make a more easily identifiable, concrete argument.
3. Book Reviews: Between 2,000 to 3,000 words.
4. Case Notes and Legislative Comments: Between 1,500 and 2,500 words. This is an analysis of any contemporary judicial pronouncement or a new piece of legislation whether in India or elsewhere. The note must identify and examine the line of cases in which the decision in question came about and comment on implications for the evolution of that branch of law. In case of legislative comment, the note must analyze the objective of the legislation and the legal impact the same is expected to have.

All word limits are exclusive of footnotes. The journal is flexible regarding the word count depending on the quality of the submission. Pieces in any of the above categories with relevance to India or Indian law are particularly welcome. This, however, is not a pre-requisite.  

Formatting and Citation Guidelines

The body of the manuscript should be in Times New Roman, font size 12 with 1.5 line spacing. The footnotes should be in Times New Roman, font size 10 with single line spacing.

The manuscript should contain only footnotes (and not end notes) as a method of citation. Citations must conform to OSCOLA (Oxford University Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities) (4^th edn.) style of citation.

Authors are required to adhere to the NLSIR Style Guide which can be found here.

How to submit?

The NLSIR only accepts electronic submissions. Submissions may be emailed to mail.nlsir@gmail.com under the subject heading “32(1) NLSIR - Submission”. All submissions must contain the following:

1. The manuscript in .doc or .docx format. The manuscript should not contain the name of the author or his/her institutional affiliation or any other identification mark.
2. A separate cover letter in .doc or .docx format containing the name of the author, professional information, the title of the manuscript, and contact information.
3. An abstract of not more than 150 words.

NLSIR is accepting submissions on a rolling basis.

NLSIR shall shortly release a call for papers for Volume 32(2). This volume is based on the theme of our Annual Symposium.

More Information

For more information on NLSIR, please log on to www.nlsir.com.

Subscribe to the NLSIR                 

You can subscribe to the NLSIR here.

Call for Submissions : Trade, Law and Development

Trade, Law and Development

Call for Submissions

Issue 11.2 | Winter ’19

The Board of Editors of Trade, Law and Development is pleased to invite original, unpublished manuscripts for publication in the Winter ’19 Issue of the Journal (Vol. 11, No. 2) in the form of Articles, Notes, Comments and Book Reviews.

Manuscripts received by September 30, 2019 pertaining to any area within the purview of international economic law will be received for publication in the Winter ’19 issue.

Founded in 2009, the philosophy of TL&D has been to generate and sustain a constructive and democratic debate on emergent issues in international economic law and to serve as a forum for the discussion and distribution of ideas. Towards these ends, we have published works by noted scholars such as Dr. Prof. Ernst Ulrich Petersmann, Prof. Steve Charnovitz, Prof. Petros Mavroidis, Prof. Mitsuo Matsuhita, Prof. Raj Bhala, Prof. Joel Trachtman, Gabrielle Marceau, Simon Lester, Prof. Bryan Mercurio, and Prof. M. Sornarajah among others. TL&D also has the distinction of being ranked the best journal in India across all fields of law for seven consecutive years by Washington and Lee University, School of Law [The Washington & Lee Rankings are considered to be the most comprehensive in this regard].

Manuscripts may be submitted via e-mail or ExpressO. For further information about the journal please click here. For submission guidelines, please click here.

In case of any queries, please feel free to contact us at: editors[at]tradelawdevelopment[dot]com.

LAST DATE FOR SUBMISSIONS: September 30, 2019

PATRON: P.P. Saxena | ADVISORS: Raj Bhala|Jagdish Bhagwati| B.S. Chimni| Glenn Wiser|DanielB. Magraw, Jr.| Vaughan Lowe| Ricardo Ramirez Hernandez| W. Michael Reisman|M. Sornarajah | FACULTY-IN-CHARGE: Rosmy Joan | BOARD OF EDITORS: Ipsiata Gupta| Radhika Parthasarathy| Gautami Govindrajan| Averal Sibal| Sarthak Singla| Abhinav Srivastav| Alice Kumar | Amogh Pareek | Anirudh Sood | Apoorva Singh| Parnika Mittal | Sahil Verma|Aniketa Jain | Anjali Sasikumar | Neerali Nanda | Shlok Patwa | Suvam Kumar | Swikruti Nayak

Call for papers: The National Law School of India Review

Submission Guidelines

The National Law School of India Review (NLSIR) is now accepting submissions for its upcoming issue – Volume 31(2). Volume 31(2) will a special issue of the NLSIR and will follow the theme of the XII NLSIR Symposium, i.e., ‘Sovereign-Rights Dichotomy: Exploring Issues of Migration, Refugees and Citizenship’ in the context of India.
Since, this is a special issue of the journal, papers relevant to the above theme, i.e., those engaging with the issues of Migration, Refuge and Citizenship will be considered only. Please send in your submissions before March 31, 2019 in order for them to be considered for our special issue, i.e., Vol. 31(2)
About NLSIR
The NLSIR is the flagship law review of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India. The NLSIR is a bi-annual, student edited, peer-reviewed law journal providing incisive legal scholarship on issues that are at the forefront of contemporary legal discourse. In the past 30 years, the NLSIR has regularly featured articles authored by judges of the Indian Supreme Court, senior counsels practicing at the Indian bar, and several renowned academics from national and foreign universities.
The most recent volume of the NLSIR, Vol. 30 will feature contributions by Professor Jonathan Herring, Vice Dean and Professor of law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and Professor Steven Freeland, the Dean of the School of Law and Professor of International Law at Western Sydney University, Australia, among several others. Moreover, NLSIR has the unique distinction of being the only Indian student-run law journal to be cited twice by the Supreme Court of India, with the latest one in the landmark judgment in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India. NLSIR has also recently been cited in Justice R. S. Bachawat’s Law of Arbitration and Conciliation, a leading treatise on arbitration law in India.
Submission Categories:

Submissions are accepted for the following categories:

1. Long Articles: Between 5,000 and 10,000 words. Papers in this category are expected to engage with the theme and literature comprehensively, and offer an innovative reassessment of the current understanding of that theme. Purely theoretical pieces are also welcome.
2. Essays: Between 3,000 and 5,000 words. Essays are far more concise in scope. These papers usually deal with a very specific issue and argue that the issue must be conceptualized differently. They are more engaging and make a more easily identifiable, concrete argument.
3. Case Notes and Legislative Comments: Between 1,500 and 2,500 words. This is an analysis of any contemporary judicial pronouncement or a new piece of legislation whether in India or elsewhere. The note must identify and examine the line of cases in which the decision in question came about and comment on implications for the evolution of that branch of law. In case of legislative comment, the note must analyze the objective of the legislation and the legal impact the same is expected to have.
All word limits are exclusive of footnotes. The journal is flexible regarding the word count depending on the quality of the submission. Pieces in any of the above categories with relevance to India or Indian law are particularly welcome. This, however, is not a pre-requisite. 
Formatting and Citation Guidelines
The body of the manuscript should be in Times New Roman, font size 12 with double linespacing. The footnotes should be in Times New Roman, font size 10 with single line spacing.
The manuscript should contain only footnotes (and not end notes) as a method of citation. Citations must conform to the Bluebook (20th edn.) style of citation.
Authors are required to adhere to the NLSIR Style Guide which can be found here.
How to submit?
The NLSIR only accepts electronic submissions. Submissions may be emailed to mail.nlsir@gmail.com under the subject heading “31(2) NLSIR – Submissions.” All submissions must contain the following:
1. The manuscript in .doc or .docx format. The manuscript should not contain the name of the author or his/ her institutional affiliation or any other identification mark.
2. A cover letter containing the name of the author, professional information, the title of the manuscript, and contact information.
3. All manuscripts must also contain an abstract of not more than 150 words.
NLSIR shall shortly release a call for papers for Volume 32(1). This volume will be a general issue and papers on any contemporary theme with relevance to India or Indian law will be welcome.
More Information
For more information on NLSIR, please log on to www.nlsir.com.
Subscribe to the NLSIR
You can subscribe to the NLSIR here.

Trade, Law and Development: Call for Submissions

Call for Submissions from Trade, Law and Development

Call for Submissions

Special Issue onTrade Facilitation

Founded in 2009, the philosophy of Trade, Law and Development has been to generate and sustain a constructive and democratic debate on emergent issues in international economic law and to serve as a forum for the discussion and distribution of ideas. In keeping with these ideals, the Board of Editors is pleased to announce Trade Facilitationas the theme for its next Special Issue (Vol. XI, No. 1).

Trade facilitation is the simplification, modernisation, and harmonisation of international trade procedures. It helps simplify customs procedures by reducing costs and improving their speed and efficiency through a multilateral understanding. The Trade Facilitation Agreement (‘TFA’) entered into force on February 22, 2017 and is one of the first major new agreements reached by the member countries of the WTO since its establishment in 1995. It contains provisions for expediting the movement, release and clearance of goods,sets out measures for effective cooperation between customs and other appropriate authorities on trade facilitation, and contains provisions for technical assistance and capacity building in this area.

There is extensive empirical data to suggest that trade facilitation can significantly boost trade. However, several concerns exist regarding the projected benefits of the TFA, its implementation, and its enforcement in an increasingly protectionist trade environment. There is also uncertainty as to how the TFA will bring uniformity and consistency in the border management of developing and least-developed countries and the role of the Committee on Trade Facilitation in this respect. Moreover, most regional and bilateral preferential trade agreements negotiated in the recent past have incorporated varying provisions related to trade facilitation. It is unclear whether the TFA has been successfully able to achieve broad application of these commitments. These subjects have not received sufficient attention from mainstream academia yet. Consequently, existing literature is inadequate to effectively equip policymakers to deal withsuch issues.

Alongside this, India has been championing trade facilitation in services at the WTO.Trade in services too faces various barriers at and behind the border, which poses difficulties for service providers from developing countries like India in accessing key markets. India’s proposal focussed on making existing market access meaningful through reduction in transaction costs arising from unnecessary regulation. The proposal received a mixed response. Some Members like China even supported the proposed agreement going beyond the scope of domestic regulation under GATS, while others expressed concerns regarding the need for a separate legal text for trade facilitation in services and the nature and scope of the obligations put forth therein.

This Special Issue, currently scheduled for publication in July 2019, will provide an ideal platform to deliberate on trade facilitation initiatives at the WTO and how they relate to more regional initiatives.Accordingly, the Board of Editors is pleased to inviteoriginal and unpublished submissions for the Special Issue on Trade Facilitation forpublication as ‘Articles’, ‘Notes’, ‘Comments’ and ‘Book Reviews’.

Manuscripts may be submitted via e-mail, ExpressO, or through the TL&D website. For furtherinformation about the journal and submission guidelines, please visit www.tradelawdevelopment.com.

In case of any queries, please feel free to contact us at: editors[at]tradelawdevelopment[dot]com.

LAST DATE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 15^thFebruary, 2019

PATRON: P.P. Saxena ADVISORS: Raj Bhala|JagdishBhagwati | B.S. Chimni | Glenn Wiser |Daniel B. Magraw, Jr. | Vaughan Lowe | Ricardo Ramirez Hernandez | W. Michael Reisman | M. Sornarajah FACULTY-IN-CHARGE: Rosmy Joan BOARD OFEDITORS: Mridul Godha | RakshitaGoyal | AnirudhGotety | Noyonika Nair | Radhika Parthasarathy | Ipsiata Gupta | Shreya Singh | AveralSibal |Gautami Govindarajan |Iti Mishra | MihirMathur| RishabhMeena | Shefalika Shekhawat | Amogh Pareek | Anirudh Sood | Apoorva Singh | Parnika Mittal | SahilVerma | SarthakSingla

Call for Papers: Indian Journal of International Economic Law

(Kindly see the call for papers from the Indian Journal of International Economic Law)

The Board of Editors of the Indian Journal of International Economic Law (IJIEL) is pleased to invite original and unpublished manuscripts for publication in Volume 11. 

About the Journal

The IJIEL is a student-edited and peer-reviewed law journal published annually by National Law School of India University, Bangalore (NLSIU). The previous volume of the journal featured contributions by Prof. Raj Bhala (Rice Distinguished Professor, Associate Dean for International and Comparative Law, Kansas School of Law) and Rodrigo Polanco (Researcher, Lecturer and SNIS/SECO Project Coordinator at World Trade Institute) among several others. We have also published articles by luminaries in the field such as Faizel Ismail, Enrico Baffi, LottaViikari, Rafiqul Islam, G.R. Bhatia, Michelle Sanson, Jason R. Bonin Dr. Rafael Arcas& Colin Picker; and forewords by Prof. JagdishBhagwati and Prof. Stephen Hobe in the past.

Mandate

The Journal is an endeavour to encourage scholarship in the field of international economic law. This includes (but is not necessarily limited to) research concerning the WTO, financial institutions, regulatory subjects such as taxation and competition policy, services sectors such as banking and brokerage and international investment arbitration. Further, the Journal is oriented towards publishing academic work that considers the aforementioned issues from a comparative perspective and/or the perspective of the developing world and Global South nations.

The purpose of IJIEL is to promote academia in the niche area of international economic law and allow scholars and researchers to engage with the myraid facets of this field. The eleventh volume will be a general issue with a mandate that includes (but is not necessarily limited to research concerning the WTO, financial institutions, regulatory subjects such as taxation and competition policy, services sectors such as banking and brokerage and international investment arbitration. Our mandate also includes an emphasis on law and development within the Global South nations.  

Submission Categories

1.      Articles (5000 to 10000 words, exclusive of footnotes) - Papers that comprehensively analyse a theme and engage with all the existing literature on it. 

2.      Essays (3000 to 5000 words, exclusive of footnotes) - Papers that concisely analyse specific contemporary issues in international economic law.

3.      Case notes and/or Legislative Commentaries (2000 to 7000 words, exclusive of footnotes).

Guidelines for Submissions

1.      The Journal reviews submissions on a rolling basis. The deadline for sending submissions for the forthcoming volume is March 31, 2019.

2.      Submissions must be made in electronic form to ijiel@nls.ac.in under the subject heading ‘IJIEL Vol. 11 Submission: <submission Category>.

3.      All submissions must be in MS Word format (.doc) or (.docx), with Times New Roman font (Main text: size 12 and double spaced, footnotes: size 10 and single-spaced).

4.      All manuscripts must be accompanied by a covering letter with the name(s) of the author(s), institution/affiliation, the title of the manuscript and contact information.

5.      An abstract of not more than 200 words shall be provided.

6.      Co - authorship (upto 3 authors) is permitted.

7.      No biographical information or references, including the name(s) of the author(s), affiliation(s) and acknowledgements should be included in the text of the manuscript, file name or document properties. All such information may be incorporated in the covering letter accompanying the manuscripts.

8.      The IJIEL uses only footnotes (and not endnotes) as a method of citation. Submissions must conform to the Bluebook.

For any clarifications, please contact us at ijiel@nls.ac.in.

Tanvee Kanaujia                                                                                     Sushmita Som

(Chief Editor)                                                                                     (Deputy Chief Editor)