Call for Blogs: Hidayatullah National Law University Student Review (Rolling Submissions)

The Hidayatullah National Law University Student Review (HNLUSR) (formerly HNLU Student Bar Journal) is the flagship student-run publication of Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur. It is a biannual, student-edited, peer-reviewed, open-access law journal dedicated to publishing legal scholarship by lawmakers, judges, practitioners, academics, legal scholars, and students.

ABOUT THE BLOG

The Hidayatullah National Law University Student Review Online (formerly The HNLU Weekly), the online companion to the print version of the Review, was founded in 2015 to better realise our mandate of making legal scholarship more widely accessible. It serves as a cutting-edge online forum for shorter, timely scholarship on contemporary legal issues. Submissions are reviewed and published on a rolling basis throughout the calendar year.

The Review is proud to publish articles, essays, and select book reviews in its print volumes, and shorter analytical pieces on HNLUSR Online, the online companion to the Review.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

• Length Limitations: Except in extraordinary circumstances, we will not publish articles exceeding the limitations below. We publish a variety of content. Common examples include but are not limited to the following:

1. Blog posts discussing or evaluating relevant contemporary legal developments, limited to a total length of 700–2,000 words.

2. Commentaries on recent court cases or legislative developments, limited to a total length of 1,000–3,000 words.

3. Book reviews of a recent and relevant book, limited to a total length of 700–1,500 words.

• Citation Format: Please use hyperlinks rather than footnotes or endnotes.

• Language: We only publish pieces in English. When American English and British English grammatical or spelling conventions differ, please use the British English standard.

• Author Eligibility: We accept submissions from academics, practitioners, legal scholars, and students. Co-authorship is limited to a maximum of two authors.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

We ask all submissions to be submitted electronically and in Microsoft Word format (.doc / .docx).

Please send your submission as email attachments to submissions.hnlusr@gmail.com with a subject line beginning with “Online Submission” and including the author’s name, e.g., “Online Submission – John Doe”.

In addition to the article manuscript, the body of the email must contain a short biographical information of the author(s) including the name of the institution that they are affiliated to.

REVIEW PROCESS

Submissions to HNLUSR Online are reviewed on a rolling basis. We endeavour to respond to authors within two weeks of receiving a submission, but we are unfortunately unable to provide feedback for articles that are not selected. Once an article has been selected, an Editor will contact the author with further information on the editing and publication process. Selected pieces may be published anywhere from within a few days to two weeks, depending on the level of editing necessary and the timeliness. They generally receive simple redline edits but also may receive more substantive or structural comments, where necessary.

All submissions that meet our criteria will be reviewed thoroughly. We kindly ask that you do not send emails inquiring into the status of your submission.

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions about our submissions policy, please email us at submissions.hnlusr@gmail.com.

In case of any other general queries, please contact us at hnlusr@gmail.com.

For more information, please visit our website at www.hnlusr.wordpress.com.

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