The Centre for Child Rights (CCR) at National Law University Odisha (NLUO) invites original research papers, case commentaries, case notes, articles, pop culture reviews, fact sheets, infographics, photo-essays, for the 'Journal on the Rights of the Child of National Law University Odisha'.

Submissions that explore the contemporary issues around child rights, the juvenile justice system. legislative developments, evolving socio-legal landscape of child well-being and the pop-culture discourse on children and their protection and rights.

The journal is committed to reclaiming journalism as a public good by demanding and shaping better coverage of children in news.

Being an ISSN indexed and double-blind peer reviewed bi-annual journal, the next issue will be published in April 2026.

Editorial Team

• Patron-In-Chief & Editor-In-Chief: Prof Ved Kumari, Vice-Chancellor, NLUO

• Patron & Publisher: Prof Rangin Pallav Tripathy, Registrar, NLUO

• Editor: Prof Biraj Swain, Chief Minister’s Chair Professor cum Director, Centre for Child Rights – NLUO

Editorial Advisory Board

• Justice Madan B Lokur, Chairperson, United Nations Internal Justice Council & Former Judge, Supreme Court of India

• Justice Geeta Mittal, Former Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court

• Prof Bernd-Deiter Meier, Criminal Justice Institute, University of Hannover, Germany

• Prof Christopher Birbeck, Professor of Criminology, Salford University, Manchester, UK

• Prof Bhabani Prasad Panda, Director, School of Law, KIIT & Former Vice Chancellor, Maharashtra National Law University

Editorial Board

• Prof Ved Kumari (Editor-in-Chief), Vice Chancellor, National Law University Odisha

• Prof Biraj Swain (Editor), Chief Minister's Chair Professor cum Director, Centre for Child Rights, National Law University Odisha

• Prof Ravinder Barn, Professor of Social Policy, & Head of Law and Criminology Department Royal Holloway, University of London

• Dr Frederick Phillip Fabian de Moll, Professor of Educational Science, Faculty of Education Science, Bielefeld University, Germany

• Dr Damanjit Sandhu, Professor and Head, Department of Psychology, Punjabi University Patiala

• Dr Asha Bajpai, (Former) Founder Dean and Professor, School of Law, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

• Dr Kalpana Purushothaman, Adjunct Professor, Indian Institute of Psychology and Research, Bangalore, Former Juvenile Justice Board Member, Bangalore Urban

Submissions sought

• Original Papers on ongoing research, completed research (4000 -6000 words).

• Case Commentaries (1500-2000 words).

• Notes and comments i.e. articles on legal challenges and implementation review of laws on child rights and child protection, in national, sub-national and global space (1500 -2000 words).

• Book Review (1200 – 1500 words).

• Numbers at a glance: Fact sheet on child rights / child well-being: One indicator at a time presented visually through infographics.

• Juvenile Justice at a glance: Summary and commentary of most important developments in the past 4-6 months gone by (3000 -4000 words).

• Through the Pop culture lens: Review/commentary on any pop culture content i.e. film/web series/comics/anime etc. (1200 – 1500 words).

• Children in the news: Media scan and commentary on journalism around child rights: the best reportage and the worst reportage of the 4-6 months gone by and the broad trends (2000 – 2500 words).

All submissions must be original. By submitting a paper/ article/ commentary/ review/ fact-sheet/ photo-essay, the author undertakes that it has not been submitted, accepted or published elsewhere.

All submissions shall be made to ccr@nluo.ac.in with the subject line 'Submission for CCR -NLUO Journal'.

Plagiarism and extensive use of AI for writing will result in summary rejection of the submission.

Deadline to submit is January 30, 2026.

For further details on submission guidelines and themes please refer to the brochure.

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