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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS BY LEX TERRA (ISSN: 2455-0965): SUBMIT BY: FEBRUARY 28, 2022

About CELAR and Lex Terra

The Centre for Environmental Law, Advocacy & Research (CELAR) of National Law University and Judicial Academy, Assam (NLUJAA), is pleased to invite scholastic submissions for Issue 39 onwards for Lex Terra (ISSN: 2455-0965), our monthly online publication (“webzine”). Since its inception, Lex Terra has published 38 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 endeavor to facilitate better and greater ideas to create a community of environmentally conscious individuals from the legal and non-legal fraternity.

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.

Link to our Previous Issue: http://nluassam.ac.in/docs/lex%20terra/Lex%20Terra%20Issue%2036.pdf

About the Call for Submissions

We are currently soliciting submissions for “Issue 39” onwards. Issue 39 is scheduled to be published tentatively in May, 2022.

Link for Submission

All manuscripts must be submitted only via this form: https://forms.gle/1YBH7e1QAUfSkMvf6. Manuscripts sent via email will not be considered.

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.Heading of Chapter I 

1.1 First Sub-Heading of Chapter I 

1.2 Second Sub-Heading of Chapter I

2. Heading of Chapter II 

2.1 First Sub-Heading of Chapter II 

“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.” 

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 Details

In case of any queries, please write to us at celar@nluassam.ac.in.

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