Call for Book Chapters

About the Editors

Mr Avinash Singh, Assistant Professor, Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad and Mr Subhrajit
Chanda, Visiting Faculty, SLS-Hyderabad (LLM-Sports Law, Nottingham Trent University,
Nottingham, UK) are inviting papers for their edited book on Sports Law and Policy.

About the subject matter of publication: Sports Law

Sports is a very important part of every person, culture, society, country and in one way or
other everyone is connected through sports whether one is playing, or watching. In some
countries, there are laws and regulations on sports; Even the United Nations, in its resolution
58/5 adopted by its General Assembly in 2003, has recognized sport as a means to promote
education, health, development and peace. Concerning this, India has a long way to go as
there is no comprehensive law dealing with sports-related matters.

The law ought to establish and advance guidelines of morals and spirit of sportsmanship
among contenders and the bodies associated with decision making. Moral answer for legal
issues in sports is the core thought behind the vision. This will upgrade the morale of the
players by improving legally binding elements among them and the regulatory bodies.
Agreements must explain desires and duties from the players and agents.

The part of sports law is generally new in our nation. Sports law alludes to the assortment of
legal standards and guidelines that fundamentally administer the universe of sports and
professional athletics. These laws and policies can incorporate guidelines and regulation
about diversifying, drugs tests, sports-related torts, contracts, antitrust and other issues.

A well-planned and exhaustive thorough compliance consistence programme can be of

incredible advantage to all endeavours. This book boast a new viewpoint, perspective and a
comprehensive policy bases mechanism that is the need of great importance of the hour.

Name of the Book:

Sports Law & Policy in Present Global Scenario

Themes
• Gender justice and Sports
• Socio-Legal dimensions of Sports Law
• Competition policy and Sports
• Technology and Sports law
• Politics and Sports Law
• Economics of Sports law and policy
• Institutional aspects of Sports Policy
• Contract law and sports
• Ethical issue and sports policy
• Tort Law and Sports
• Judicial precedents and Sports Law at global level
• IPR and Sports
• Need of Stadium Protection Policy In India

Note: The above sub-themes are only illustrative. Editors would welcome papers on other topics related
to Sports Law and Policy.

Eligibility
This is a call to all academicians, lawyers and research scholars to make their contributions
in the form of book chapter on the given themes.

Submission Guidelines
• Contributions should be between 4,000-6,000 words. The word limit mentioned is
inclusive of footnotes. Kindly note that the word limit will be strictly enforced.
• All the submissions must consist of an Abstract of not more than 250 words, the main
contribution and a declaration of originality. The abstract will not be included in the
word limit.
• A submission can be co-authored by a maximum of two people.
Format and Citation Guidelines

• Font Type and Size of the main text must be Times New Roman, 12.
• Font Type and Size of footnotes must be Times New Roman, 10.
• Line Spacing of the main text and footnotes must be 1.5, Single respectively.
• Use of headings and Sub-Headings is encouraged. Headings and Sub-Headings should
be numbered, should be of the same font type and size as the main text and should be
in bold.
• Citations must be in OSCOLA format.
• Manuscripts should be sent on e-mail Id: acd.publish@gmail.com.
• Last Date for Submission of book chapters: 7 May 2020

Submission Procedure
• Authors are requested to send their original, unpublished submissions in .doc/.docx
format to
• The name of the file must contain Title of the Submission.

The submissions must be accompanied by a covering letter bearing the

following information:

• Full Name of the Author(s)

• Position/Designation/Year of Study
• Institutional Affiliation
• Contact Details of the Author(s) (Mail Id and Phone Number)

Last Date for Submission: 7 May 2020

Publication Policy
• Book shall be published bearing an ISBN number and with a national/international
level publication house.
• The submissions should be original work of the authors and must not be published
elsewhere. Submissions with plagiarized content and copyright issues will be rejected
outrightly.
• By sending the submissions to the editors, the author(s) agree to assign exclusive
copyright in the work to editors. They shall be entitled to, without limitation, publish
and reproduce the submission (or part(s) thereof) in any manner they sees fit (with due
acknowledgement to the author) subject to the doctrine of fair use as enumerated
under the Copyright Act.
• The editors reserve the right to edit the submissions (or part(s) thereof) for publication
without permission from or further notice to the author.
• After initial screening, short-listed submissions will go through a double-blind peer-
review process and the final selection will be based on that procedure.
• Any query can be addressed to acd.publish@gmail.com.