Call for Papers | Faculty of Law | The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda | Gujarat | Submit by 6th December, 2026
FACULTY OF LAW
THE MAHARAJA SAYAJIRAO UNIVERSITY OF BARODA
VOX LEGIS
CALL FOR PAPERS 10.0
About Faculty of Law, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat
The Faculty of Law, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (accredited Grade “A+” by NAAC), has been a premier institution offering legal education in Gujarat since the sixties. It is among the top-ranked institutions for legal education in the state and the country. The GHRDC Law School Survey 2026 ranked it 1st in Gujarat, 6th among Law Schools of Eminence and 17th in the All India ranking, placing it among the Top 20 Law Schools in India. The Competition Success Review (CSR) Law School Survey 2026 ranked it 1st among Top Law Schools in Gujarat and 4th among Top Distinguished Law Schools in India. It was also ranked 18th among Top Law Colleges in India in The Week-Hansa Research Survey 2026, and among the Top 25 Law Schools in India by Forbes in 2021. It offers B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) (five-year integrated programme), LL.B. (three-year programme ), LL.M. (two-year programme), Post Graduate Diploma in Taxation Practice, Post Graduate Diploma in Labour Practice, and a Ph.D. programme.
The Faculty of Law has contributed in honing several eminent lawyers and judges whose contributions to the legal field can be witnessed in India and abroad, through its holistic and dynamic learning environment.
ABOUT VOX LEGIS
Vox Legis, Latin for “the voice of the law”, is the annual student-faculty collaborative publication of the Faculty of Law, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. Its purpose is to foster discussion on the evolution of law and society, to offer students a forum for scholarship on contemporary legal and public policy questions, and to promote research and writing.
Vox Legis is available as both a print publication and an online publication at voxlegis.co.in.
About Vox Legis 10.0
Theme: A World For All, In The Making
Law, Rights and the Obligations of a Shared Future
Submission Deadline: Sunday, 6th December, 2026
CONCEPT NOTE
Faced with crises that no state can manage alone, the world has turned to shared frameworks for the future. The Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Pact for the Future and, more recently, the WHO Pandemic Agreement, and the High Seas Treaty, all reflect a collective ambition to eradicate poverty, reduce inequality, protect the planet, and leave no one behind. Yet, the distance between these promises and lived realities remains stark. Progress has not reached everyone; opportunity remains unevenly distributed, development carries unequal costs, and the consequences of decisions made by a few are too often borne by many. A worker’s livelihood, a child’s access to education, a community’s claim over its land, an individual’s freedom to define one’s identity, or the right to an environment that does not jeopardise survival are not isolated concerns. They are interconnected questions of power, participation, and justice. The question, therefore, is not simply what kind of world we wish to create, but whose vision of that world can prevail, and what must we do to build a truly “shared” world.
This is where law must find its purpose, and where its limitations must also be confronted. It is through law that societies define the boundaries of power, give shape to rights, impose obligations and determine whose interests receive protection. Yet the existence of a right does not guarantee its realisation, just as the existence of an institution does not ensure justice. As technology transforms human relationships, economies reorganise themselves and ecological boundaries are pushed to their limits, law must remain responsive to changing realities while confronting the structures that sustain exclusion. It must hold power to account, enable institutions to sustain equilibrium, and make meaningful remedies accessible to those who need them. The making of a world for all is, in this sense, also a continuing exercise in imagining, interpreting, and reshaping the law.
The Editorial Board of Vox Legis, the in-house student-faculty collaborative publication of the Faculty of Law, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, invites students to engage with these questions through a legal perspective using comparative, international, and interdisciplinary approaches. Contributions should move beyond describing existing crises or restating familiar commitments. They should examine the patterns/structures that produce and perpetuate them, and explore the legal, institutional, technological and policy pathways capable of bringing meaningful change.
The sub-themes include, but are not limited to, the six clusters below:
ELIGIBILITY AND AUTHORSHIP
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
All submissions must be made through the official Submission Form.
Submissions sent by email will not be considered. The official email address voxlegis-law@msubaroda.ac.in, is for queries and correspondences.
Authors must submit the manuscripts on or before 6th December, 2026. The author will receive an acknowledgement of receipt by email.
MANUSCRIPT REQUIREMENTS
Length and Language
Manuscripts must be in English language only. Submissions must be between 1,500 and 2,000 words, excluding footnotes. Manuscripts must be written in clear and grammatically correct English, using UK spelling convention consistently.
Title and File
Each submission must carry a clear and relevant title. The file must be in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) format and must be named with the title of the submission.
The manuscript, uploaded in the Submission Form, must not contain the author’s name, institution, acknowledgements or any other identifying information, including in the document properties, headers, and footers. Author details are to be given only in the Submission Form.
FORMATTING GUIDELINES
Text and Footnotes
The body of the manuscript must be in Times New Roman, 12 pt, with 1.5 line spacing, and justified alignment. Footnotes must be in Times New Roman, 10 pt, with single line spacing, and numbered consecutively.
Paragraphs, Headings and Quotations
The text must be organised into clear and logically connected paragraphs, with headings and sub-headings where they help the reader. Short quotations must appear within quotation marks. Quotations of fifty words or more must be set out as an indented block quotation without quotation marks.
Abbreviations
Abbreviations must be written in full at their first occurrence, followed by the abbreviated form in parentheses.
Tables, Figures and Permissions
Tables, figures and images must be labelled and their sources acknowledged. Authors must obtain the necessary permissions before reproducing copyrighted material.
CITATION GUIDELINES
Citation Style
All sources referred to in a manuscript must be cited in accordance with The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, 21st Edition (2020). Citations must be accurate, consistent and verifiable, with references wherever applicable. Authors should rely on official sources for legislation, judicial decisions and government publications, and must check that every hyperlink leads to the cited source.
Examples
For foreign and international sources, and for sources not directly covered by the Bluebook, authors should follow the relevant Bluebook rules and tables, or use a consistent format suited to the source.
AI & PLAGIARISM POLICY
CONTACT
For queries relating to submissions and publication, write to voxlegis-law@msubaroda.ac.in.
The brochure is attached here.
Happy Writing!
Vox Legis 10.0
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