IRCLI

Call for Papers: International

Review of Contemporary Legal
Issues
International Review of Contemporary Legal Issues is a bi annual, online and gold open-access
law journal. The aim of the journal is to provide a platform for students, academicians and
practitioners for publication of original scholarly papers on contemporary legal issues that have
national, regional and international importance. The papers can be in the forms of articles,
essays, case notes, legislative/policy/book reviews, responses and film reviews. The special focus
of the journal is publication of responses to scholarly papers. The journal encourages
comparative and empirical analysis.
This initiative is by Aditya Shukla a graduate alumnus of Jindal Global Law School (India) [Not
enrolled as Advocate in any State Bar Council]. He is also Managing Editor of International
Review of Human Rights Law [www.irhrl.com].The legal body formed to run the journal is a
firm: Ramkrishna Publishers situated in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India registered under the Indian
Partnership Act, 1932 [ Registration number is 326/2015-16].
The journal invites submissions for its inaugural issue. The submission guidelines and review
process are mentioned below. Last date of Submission is 27 April 2016.
IRCLI Submission Guidelines:
1] All the submissions must be original and unpublished. The submissions have to be made only
via email. Please send the submissions to editor.ircli@gmail.com.
2] Use Times New Roman as font theme, Font Size 12, justified alignment and Line Spacing
1.5. For footnotes use Times New Roman as font theme and 10 as font size and 1.0 line spacing.
3] The submissions can be in the forms of Articles, Essays, Case Notes, Legislative/Policy/Book
Reviews, Responses to scholarly works published in law reviews or books and Film Reviews.
4] Length of Submissions:
Articles 6000 10000 words
Essays 3000 5000 words
Case Notes 2500 3000 words
Legislative/Policy/Book Reviews 2000 3500 words
Responses 3500 4000 words
1

IRCLI

Film Reviews 3000 3500 words

The word limits are inclusive of footnotes. Submissions must contain an abstract of 150 - 350
words in total. All the submissions must be accompanied by a covering letter containing
academic qualifications of the author/authors. Authorship of papers is limited to two authors.
Name of the author/authors must not be provided in the submissions. Please use footnotes in
citations. The journal accepts Bluebook 19th edition, OSCOLA 4th edition and the citation style
formulated by the journal.
5] It shall be the sole responsibility of the author/s to ensure that all references and citations
stated in the submissions are correct and submissions must not infringe copyright/any other
rights of any third parties. The submissions must not contain any obscene, offensive, defamatory
or racially prejudiced materials. The author/authors will indemnify the journal in case of any
infringement.
6] Publication Cost:
For Indian Authors:
Single Authored papers by students: 1600 Rupees
Co-authored papers by students: 2000 Rupees
Papers authored by Researchers/Professors: 2500 Rupees
For Authors from Abroad: 50 USD

IRCLI Review Process:

The Editorial Board will promptly acknowledge the receipt of the submissions and a decision as
to whether the submissions are being considered for review process will be communicated to the
author/s within 15 days from the date of submissions. The Editorial Board will review the
submissions carefully on the criterion of scope, content, structure, research, analysis, creativity,
accomplishment of the papers purpose and inclusion of counter - argument in the submissions.
Submissions will be rejected if they are plagiarized. The process of review will be rigorous and
the editorial board expects author/s to be available during the process. The mode of payment of
publication charges will be informed to author/s only after acceptance of the submissions. All the
communications have to be through email only.
Website: www.ircli.com
Email Id: editor.ircli@gmail.com
2

IRCLI