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The Centre for Public Law (CPL) was established in 2009 under the able guidance of Dr. Sanjay Jain, Associate Professor at the College. CPL focuses on research in Constitutional Law and its interface with other laws and discussions on policy and developments in Indian Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence.
CPL has the distinction of having organized the first ever National Constitutional Law Olympiad and has also organized the Annual National Alternate Judgment Writing Competition and the Annual ILS Intra-College ConstIcon Competition. Additionally, one of the research projects undertaken by the Centre has now been published as a book “Basic Structure Constitutionalism” by Eastern Book Company.
Recently, CPL organized the National Seminar on Constitutional Identity: Foundations, Evolution and Future Perspectives inviting scholars, theorists and lawyers to deliberate on tough questions surrounding the changing identity of the Constitution. The latest endeavor of the Centre was a panel discussion on Gender Justice for the Queer Community – Integrating Family Law with Constitutional Framework convening lawyers, legal policy experts and community advocates to talk about the lived realities of the queer community.
CPL conducts its Intra-College Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition, having organized five editions of the same. CPL organized its first edition of the Public Policy Debate and is keen on continuing it every year. The Centre runs the Public Law Bulletin and the CPL Blog as its primary academic publications. Other than that, our regular activities include weekly sessions on contemporary public law issues and guest lectures by scholars and lawyers on seminal constitutional matters.
The Centre being conscious of the need for dissemination of knowledge and development of a conducive learning environment has undertaken to use this blog as a means of such dissemination and development. We invite you to participate in this learning activity and contribute towards the betterment of Constitutional Law and the Indian democratic society.
In the quest of promoting constitutional studies through innovative means and harnessing interpretative skills to fathom the depth of Public Law amongst the students at the college, CPL invites students, faculty, alumni and scholars of our institution to express their views in the form of Articles, Book Reviews, Case Commentaries, Responses on contemporary socio-legal issues on Public Law.
For the purposes of clarity and definitiveness, we think it is necessary to define some terms which entail the blog’s scope. ‘Public law’ as understood by the academic tenets of the blog includes but is not limited to – constitutional law, criminal law, taxation law, administrative law, comparative constitutional law etc. Principally, ‘public law analysis’ means legal and logical reasoning of the following branches of public law in constitutional theory or practice by using legal resources. The structure of the blog should not be something which informs and narrates but something which explains and argues. Submissions should be all-comprehensive in pursuance of this scope.
As iterated in the blog’s purpose, we openly accept inter-disciplinary manuscripts based on contemporary socio-political and economic developments. However, such submissions must contain elements of public law analysis as defined above. Such confluence can be achieved by adopting a premise-based approach, by clarifying the inter-relationship between the discipline and public law and establishing the blog on that foundation. Inter-disciplinary topics although encouraged are not mandatory but discretionary
Submissions which seek to argue and discuss upon public law issues which plague our world today are those which fit within the substantive scheme of things as far as the blog is concerned.
PLEASE NOTE: Submissions which lack required elements of public law or public law analysis and are devoid of necessary legal resources and structure shall not be considered for submission by the editorial board.
The objective of the CPL blog is to facilitate a free and independent dissemination and fostering of constitutional morality, holistic examination of the Constitution and creation of a forum for discussing public law. These aspects seem to be going through an aberration, and the blog intends to broaden the horizons surrounding it.
We intend to pursue such broadening by accepting submissions on a wide range of interdisciplinary topics that bear a reasonable nexus with constitutional law such as criminal procedure, sociology, property, political economy and environment to name a few. Submissions revolving around constitutional theory are also welcome.
Furthermore, it has to be iterated as a disclaimer that the submissions should fall within the ambit of ‘expression’, ‘advocacy’ and not ‘incitement’ as distinguished in the Shreya Singhal judgement. Such is the philosophy of the blog.
▪ The content of the manuscript must be strictly original and unpublished.
▪ Manuscripts should be submitted in Microsoft Word format only.
▪ We encourage the use of hyperlinks within the text itself instead of footnotes. However, if your manuscript contains sources that cannot be linked, please use Uniform Style of Citation in the footnotes, preferably the OSCOLA, 4th edition. Citations of case laws mentioned in the manuscript should be mandatorily included as footnotes.
▪ Word Limit for Articles/Case Comments/ Legislative Analysis is 1000-4000 Words.
▪ In case your manuscript exceeds the word limit, the Editorial Board reserves the discretion to publish the manuscript in parts.
▪ Please observe the following for formatting of the document – British English Font: Times New Roman, Heading: 14, Subheading: 12, Content: 12, Spacing: 1.5, Alignment; Justified.
▪ The content should be the original work of the writer and should not have been submitted or be under consideration to any other competition or for any publication.
▪ Cross-Posting may be allowed with the permission of the Editorial Board.
▪ Post submission, the Centre shall first provide with a mail of acknowledgement within 48 hours.
▪ The editorial board shall then review the write-ups of the authors within 14 days from having received the submission. The authors shall be updated on the status of their submission.
▪ Please note that the editorial board may suggest the Author(s) to undertake necessary changes / alterations which should be duly complied with within 2 days, failing which, the editorial board will not be able to consider the article for further processing.
▪ The 14-day time period for the completion of the review process would be exclusive of the time taken by the authors who have been asked to resubmit their articles after review.
▪ Posts which are not considered for publication shall receive the feedback and constructive suggestions from the editorial board.
▪ In order to submit your work, kindly send your articles at centreforpubliclaw@ilslaw.in.
PLEASE NOTE: The Centre For Public Law abides by the no-Artificial Intelligence policy so far as manuscripts for the blog are concerned. We reiterate here for all official purposes that any submission which is wholly or partially AI-generated shall be rejected forthwith and not even considered for substantive editorial review. The Editors shall now be conducting an AI check before proceeding ahead with substantive review.
In Case of any Queries, contact: centreforpubliclaw@ilslaw.in or any of the Core Committee Members.
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