Lex Terra by CELAR, NLUJA

Centre for Environmental Law, Advocacy & Research, NLUJA is inviting submissions for Lex Terra. The last date of submission is February 28.

About the Centre

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 44 onwards for Lex Terra (ISSN: 2455-0965), our quarterly online publication (“webzine”).

Since its inception, Lex Terra has published 43 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 legal and non-legal fraternities. Detailed submission guidelines can be found below.

General Guidelines

• Lex Terra exclusively accepts manuscripts that revolve around the themes of environmental law and policy research. Manuscripts that are not related to environmental law are summarily rejected.
• Possible sub-themes include but are not limited to Natural Resource Management Law; Waste Management; Biodiversity Management; Energy Law; Forest Laws; Animal Rights; Agricultural Laws; Climate Change Law and Policy; Global Commons; Sustainable Development; Environment Impact Assessment; Ecological Restoration; Pollution Control; Coastal Regulation; Environmental Ethics; Ecofeminism; Environment, Business and Human Rights; Ecosystem Services; and Environmental Economics.
• While contributors are permitted to submit articles on the aforementioned themes across any jurisdiction, we especially encourage submissions exploring customary environmental standards and practices pertaining to North-East India. We, at Lex Terra, firmly believe that the North-East region of India, being rich in biodiversity and natural resources, requires particular attention from an enviro-legal standpoint.
• Manuscripts sent via email will not be considered.


• The word limit, exclusive of footnotes, is as follows:
  • Short Articles: 2000 words,
  • Enviro-legislative analysis: 1000 words,
  • Enviro-legal news & perspectives: 1000 words, and
  • Enviro-judgement analysis: 1000 – 1500 words.
• Please do not use any personal identification details in the manuscript, such as your name or institutional affiliations, to better facilitate the double-blind peer-review process.
• Co-authorship among individuals of the same or different institutions is allowed up to two authors
• Please ensure that the manuscript submitted to Lex Terra must not be simultaneously under consideration at other academic publications.
• The webzine is committed to publishing pieces of the highest academic quality. Pursuant to this, we have a strict no-plagiarism policy and all manuscripts we receive are put through plagiarism detection software. Any manuscripts found to have a similarity index of more than 20% are summarily rejected. Other pieces depend upon context. Only the non-plagiarized manuscripts are sent to the peer reviewers.

How to Submit?

Interested candidates can submit entries via the link given at the end of the post.

Formatting Guidelines

• Submissions should exclusively be made in .doc/ .docx format.
• The authors must follow the Bluebook 20th Edition format for citations.


• Please adhere to the following text 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, center 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:
  • Heading of Chapter I
    First Sub-Heading of Chapter I
    Second Sub-Heading of Chapter I
  • Heading of Chapter II
    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.
• Abbreviation of a word should only be done at the first instance and should not be repeated later. Please refrain from using terms such as “hereinafter” within the parentheses and do not use periods in these short forms. 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.
• Speaking footnotes are strictly prohibited.

Important dates

• The deadline for submissions to be considered for Issue 44 is February 28th, 2024.
• Due to an overwhelming number of manuscripts that we have received so far, Issue 44 onwards of Lex Terra is scheduled to be published tentatively at the end of April 2024.
• Please note that the peer review process for Issue 43 onwards will commence only post the deadline. Hence, authors can expect to receive the final decision with regard to the acceptance or rejection of the submitted manuscript in the last week of April 2024.

Contact

For any further queries, write to us at [email protected].

Click here to submit.