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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS BY LEX TERRA (ISSN: 2455-0965) : SUBMIT BY 30TH NOVEMBER 2021

ABOUT 

The Centre for Environmental Law, Advocacy and Research (CELAR) of National Law University and Judicial Academy, Assam (NLUJAA), is pleased to invite scholastic submissions for Issue 37 onwards for Lex Terra (ISSN: 2455-0965), our monthly online publication (“webzine”). Since its inception, Lex Terra has published 33 issues on various debatable facets of the environment and environment-related analytical items. Several academicians, practitioners, and students have contributed to the webzine. Through Lex Terra, we endeavour to facilitate better and greater ideas to create a community of environmentally conscious individuals from the legal and non-legal fraternity. Detailed submission guidelines can be found below. 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 

General Guidelines 

  1. Short Articles: 2000 words, 
  2. Enviro-legislative analysis: 1000 words, 
  3. Enviro-legal news & perspectives: 1000 words, and 
  4. Enviro-judgement analysis: 1000 – 1500 words. 

Formatting Guidelines 

All text, including hyperlinks featured in the footnotes of the manuscript, must be in black colour. In addition, hyperlinks to an online citation must be removed. Only the text of the link should be retained. 

Main title: Times New Roman, Size 14, small capitals, centre aligned, in bold. Headings within the main body: Times New Roman, Size 12, upper case, left aligned, in bold. 

Subheadings within the main body: Times New Roman, Size 12, title case, left aligned, in italics.

We encourage lengthy articles to be divided into headings and subheadings for better structure. However, authors are advised to use only two heading levels. Please number, format and indent headings and subheadings as: 

1.1 First Sub-Heading of Chapter I 

1.2 Second Sub-Heading of Chapter I 

2.1 First Sub-Heading of Chapter II 

The main body of the text: Times New Roman, Size 12, 1.5 line spacing, justified. 

Footnotes: Times New Roman font size 10, single line spacing, justified. 

For example: “The National Green Tribunal Act, 2010 (‘NGT Act’) is an Act of the Parliament of India which… 

The NGT Act was enacted to create a special tribunal to handle environmental cases.” Writers should not use double quotations unreasonably. Only content used verbatim should be put in quotation marks. 

REVIEW PROCESS AND TIMELINE 

Use of Language 

Style and Structure 

Referencing and Research 

Relevance and Contribution to Existing Literature 

EDITORIAL POLICY 

OPEN ACCESS STATEMENT 

Lex Terra is committed to free and open access to all academic research. No publication fees will be charged to authors at any stage of the review. In addition, no subscription costs will be charged to readers. Accepted manuscripts shall be published online and can be freely accessed through the official website of National Law University and Judicial Academy, Assam. 

CONTACT 

For any further queries, write to us at celar@nluassam.ac.in.

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