CfP for law Graduates: National Seminar on Research Integrity and Publication Ethics by NUALS, Kochi March 11-13: Submit by March 1

The seminar will provide the scholars with an overview on how to up bring an original research work and to understand the core principles of ethical research. Thereby the participant would strive to become an ethical researcher and produce an original quality research work.

Relevant Themes

The theme of the seminar is ‘Enhancing Research Integrity and Upholding Publication Ethics.’

Sub Themes

• Research, Ethics and Academic Honesty
• Ethics in research writing and conflict of interests
• Intellectual honesty
• Academic Integrity: Research Misconduct/Fabrication/Unethical Practices
• Academic/Research: Falsification, Manipulation or Tampering of Data
• Literature Review and Proper Use of E-Resources
• Using Design thinking Methods to Avoid Plagiarism
• Writing Quality Academic Publications: Challenges to avoid plagiarism
• Modes of citation and Acknowledgment
• Introduction to Reference Management Tools (RMT)
• Plagiarism, types and modes to avoid it
• Features and Functionalities of Anti-Plagiarism Software
• Detection of Plagiarism by using Different Online Tools
• Plagiarism Policies, Penalties and Consequences
• Research metrics
• Norms and rules governing prescriptive writing
• Arrangement of content and structure of writing articles
• Art of quoting judgements
• Guide to legal citation
• Citation of resources, articles, journals, reports etc

Eligibility Criteria

• Seminar invites faculty members and researchers from Law and related disciplines such as Social Science, Management, and Economics etc. all over the globe to participate and/or present paper.
• Researchers enrolled for LL.M/M.Phil. /Ph.D./PDF in a UGC recognized university/ foreign university/ deemed university/ colleges/ institutes of national importance or ICSSR Research institute can apply for the seminar.

Location

NUALS, Kochi

Submission Procedure

• Submissions are to be made in electronic form only and are to be sent to the mail id nualsripe2022@nuals.ac.in
• The paper should be in English, not exceeding 3000-5000 words (including abstract and excluding footnotes).
• The paper shall be submitted on or before 1st March, 2022.
• Co-authorship is permitted to a maximum of two authors.
• In case of co-authorship, each co-author should remit separate registration fee.
• The cover page should include Name, Address, E-mail ID, Contact number and the name of the College/University/Firm along with the address of the author. A brief profile of the author not exceeding 250 words should be attached.
• No part of the submission should have been published earlier nor should it be under consideration for publication or a contest elsewhere.
• All contributions must represent original ideas and interpretations coupled with critical evaluation and assessment.
• Any form of plagiarism will result in immediate disqualification.
• Authors of the selected papers will be informed through mail.
• Selected papers will be published in ISBN numbered book, participants will have to fill Form 2 consenting publication along with submission of full paper.
• The mode of seminar is HYBRID.
• The participants can participate and or present papers in virtual mode or in person.

FEES

• INR 500 for LL.M/M.Phil. /Ph.D./PDF participants opting for virtual mode.
• INR 1000 for LL.M/M.Phil. /Ph.D./PDF participants opting in person.
• INR 1000 for teachers/others opting for virtual mode.
• INR 1500 for teachers/ others opting in person.

Payment mode will be intimated later.

Relevant Dates

• Submission of full paper with abstract: 01-03-2022
• Communication of status of full papers: 05-03-2022
• Registration last date: 08-03-2022

Relevant Links and Contacts

Further Details

For further clarity one may reach out the following:=

• FACULTY ADVISOR
  Prof. (Dr.) Mini S.
  Director, Centre for Post Graduate Legal Studies
• CO-ORDINATORS
  Fathima Ibrahim
  Doctoral Research Scholar, NUALS
  Email: fathimaibrahimphd@nuals.ac.in
  Ph. +91 9446276627
• Vidyaprada K.S.
  Doctoral Research Scholar, NUALS
  Email: vidyapradaksphd@nuals.ac.in
  Ph. +91 8606934807