Call for Papers for Journal of National Law University Delhi (JNLUD) Volume 12 (2026) by NLU, Delhi. Submission Deadline: December 31, 2025.

ABOUT JNLUD:

The Journal of National Law University Delhi is the flagship journal of National Law University Delhi. It is a general, double blind peer reviewed journal that publishes original articles in all branches of law, along with separate sections devoted to recent developments in the legislative, judicial and policy fields, case comments and book reviews. The journal seeks to provide a platform for engaging in multi-disciplinary and critical legal discussions on themes of law, society, and justice. We encourage academics in law and cognate disciplines to contribute to the Journal by revisiting and reimagining the boundaries of law through innovations in method and form. It is guided by an editorial committee and an advisory board, consisting of legal luminaries from around the world. The Hon’ble Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court is the ex officio Patron-in-Chief of the Journal. The previous issues of the journal are available in digital format through different databases including Hein Online.

SUBMISSION PROCESS:

JNLUD welcomes original and previously unpublished articles, notes, comments, and book reviews for publication in its upcoming issue (Vol. 12, 2026).
Submissions for the upcoming issue will be accepted till December 31, 2025.
To submit an article, note, comment or book review, please click on the link herein provided.

SUBMISSION LINK

All submissions must comply with the style guide suggested below.
Articles mailed directly to JNLUD email address will not be considered.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Authorship:
 1. Co-authorship up to three authors is allowed.
 2. Academicians, professionals, doctoral researchers are invited to submit their work.
Word Count:
 1. Short Articles are typically of around 6000-8000 words.
 2. Long Articles are typically of around 8000-10000 words.
 3. Notes and Comments are short pieces of less than 5000 words. These have a narrower scope of inquiry than articles and may include analysis of recent cases, legislation or policy.
 4. Book reviews are generally around 2500 words. Submissions to this category must critically analyse the ideas and themes explored in the book instead of merely providing a summary of its main arguments.
5. All the above-mentioned word counts are inclusive of footnotes.
Format and Citation:
 1. Font type and size of the main text must be Times Roman, 12.
 2. Font type and size of the footnotes must be Times Roman, 10.
 3. The main text and footnotes must have a line spacing of 1.5 and 1 respectively.
 4. Citation style must adhere to OSCOLA (4th edition).
 5. Each submission (except Book Review) should be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 300 words and five keywords.
6. Relevant details of the author and their affiliation would be captured only through the Google Form. The submission should not contain any reference to the identity of the author in order to enable anonymous screening and peer review.
 7. Manuscripts must be in MS-Word (doc./docx.) format.
 8. Figures should be of high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size). Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: EPS, PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word.
Review Process:
 1. The review process follows an anonymous, independent, and robust approach.
 2. It consists of two stages—the desk review stage (review by Editorial Board) and article review stage (review by an anonymous referee).
3. After the desk review, the submissions undergo a double-blind peer review process, in which the identities of the authors and reviewers are concealed from one another.
4. The editors aim to, as far as possible, complete the review process, from submission of the manuscript to a publication decision, within 10-12 weeks. If the manuscript is accepted for publication, the decision shall be communicated to the author within 12-15 weeks of the submission.
Open Access:
 1. JNLUD adheres to the Open Access Policy.
 2. The content of the Journal is freely available on the Journal’s website without any time limit, so as to enable access to everyone, regardless of ability to pay and also to ensure the articles reach a wider audience.
3. All content published in the Journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The “CC BY” license permits commercial and non-commercial re use of an open access article as long as the author is properly attributed.

EDITORIAL POLICY:

Only original and unpublished work must be submitted for consideration for JNLUD. The submitted work must be not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
 Author(s) must take particular care that their work does not infringe on the rights of third parties and that they have obtained necessary permissions for cited work.
 All submissions would be scrutinised for plagiarism. Plagiarised manuscripts will be rejected.
 JNLUD is currently unable to accept submissions from students pursuing undergraduate or postgraduate studies. In such instances, it invites students to make their submission to the NLUD Journal of Legal Studies. However, submissions from research scholars including doctoral scholars would be considered.
 While all efforts would be made to inform the corresponding author of the progress of the submission through various stages of review, in view of the number of submissions that the journal receives, an individualised response may not be possible in each instance.
 Decision of the Editorial Board on all matters shall be final.
 There are no submission fees, publication fees or page charges for this journal.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Opening Date of Submission: 18 September, 2025
Closing Date of Submission: 31 December, 2025

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