Submissions are invited for Legal Sustainability of Natural Resources by UILS, Panjab University. Submit your Papers by Nov 17!
About the University Institute of Law
University Institute of Law, Panjab University Regional Centre (PURC), Ludhiana has embarked upon a well-structured course of action to achieve levels of excellence in the field of legal studies and research since its establishment at the campus of P.U. Extension Library, Ludhiana w.e.f. the academic Session 2003-04. Presently the institution imparts legal education under the able leadership of Prof. (Dr.) Aman Amrit Cheema, Director, UIL, PURC, through three courses, LL.M 1 year, LL.B 3 year and B.A. LL.B (Hons.) 5 year integrated course.
The level of academic rigour has ensured that most of our alumni excel in their respective professions. Beyond academics, PURC, Ludhiana promotes leadership skills and wholesome life experience of our students by encouraging them to take part in various co-curricular and extra-curricular activities like literary, debating, cultural, entrepreneurial and recreational activities.
Keeping the above objective in mind, UIL, PURC has introduced biannual law journal (Journal of law) primarily for legal scholars, professionals, researcher and practitioners across the globe to encourage exchange of ideas, concepts and their applicability and promote problem solving capabilities in the them.
About the Journal of Law
Journal of Law is a bi-annual publication.
Journal of Law is a Peer-reviewed/ Refereed Journal and a remarkable initiative of the University Institute of Laws, PURC, Ludhiana. Journal of Law is a biannual publication (July and January) which provides an excellent way for legal practitioners, professionals, researchers and academicians to critically engage in current legal issues and to collaborate closely, to study the nuances of contemporary legal Pedagogy. The experience enhances writing, editing and citation-checking skills.
Objective of the Journal: Focus of Special Issue
Queries into the question of nature do not occur frequently in contemporary philosophical literature. Ironically, the word nature is a complex word in itself, but it is explained in the terms of its resources. Natural resources are those parts of nature that provide goods and services critical to survival, well-being and development of humanity, making them fundamental to our survival.
However, over- exploitation of these resources by mankind has shaken the entire equilibrium of nature and challenged the Anthropocene in conserving and managing natural resources.
We, the Indians can’t ignore the British roots of our legal framework for natural resource management and the principles that articulate these rules. The State control, by and large, on natural resources is actually a gift of colonial raj which continued after independence. However, with the passage of time due to the intervention of hyper judicial activism in free India an additional complexity arose which gave the corporate sectors- the core stakeholders a threshold over the natural resources.
For its Special Issue of 2024 Journal of Law,, invites contributions to provide a platform where research scholars can engage in debates to analyse and assess the efficacy of legal regimes on natural resources utilisation and to find ways in which Law and policy may have to be recast to facilitate the overarching goal of their sustainable management.
Who may Submit
Submissions are invited from academicians, researchers and practitioners.
Theme
We invite submissions on the following tentative topics:
- Protecting Flora, Fauna and the Law
- Bio-diversity protection and the Law
- Wildlife Conservation and the Law
- Renewable Energy Law
- Coastal and Ocean Management and Law
- Managing waste streams and Law
- Wetlands and Law
- Oil and Gas law
- Mining and the Law
- Mythology and Natural Resources
- Smart Cities, Sustainable Development and Natural Resources
Submission Guidelines
- Authors are requested to send their original, unpublished submission in .doc format to purcl.journaloflaw@gmail.com
- The submission must be accompanied by a separate covering letter bearing the following information:
- Full Name of the Author(s)
- Position/designation (if applicable on all author(s))
- Institutional Affiliations (if any)
- Contact Details of the Author / Co-Author
- Title of the Paper
- Declaration of originality
- Author must submit a plagiarism report (below 10% similarity index) along with the submission otherwise the submission will be outrightly rejected.
- The authors must not mention any relevant identification information on the body of the research paper such as their name, contact details, institutional affiliation (if any).
- Submissions can be in the form of long articles, short notes, book reviews. The acceptable word limit should not exceed.
- Long Articles: 4000-5000 words
- Short Notes: 3000-4000 words
- Case Comments/Legislative Comments: 1500-3000 words
- Book Review: 1000-2000 words
- All the word limits mentioned above are exclusive of footnotes.
- Kindly note that the word limits will be strictly enforced.
- All the submissions must consist an Abstract of not more than 250 words. The abstract will not be included in the word limit.
- The submission must be sent along with up to 6 keywords along with the abstract in the manuscript.
- A submission can be co-authored by a maximum of two people.
- In case, authors send more than one submission for consideration, only the first submission shall be reviewed for publication.
Formatting and Citation Guidelines
- An appropriate Title must be mentioned in the cover page of the submission. The Title should be font type- Times New Roman and font size-16.
- The submission should not contain any biographical information of the author throughout the manuscript.
- The body of the text must be submitted in font type- Times New Roman, font size- 12.
- The footnotes must be font type- Time New Roman, font size 10.
- The Line Spacing of the main text and footnotes must be 1.5 and 1 respectively.
- Use of Headings and Subheadings is encouraged throughout the text-
- Title of paper-Capital, Bold, Font Size-16, Times New Roman
- Headings: Centre Aligned, Bold, and Font Size- 14, Font Type- Times New Roman, with Roman Numbering.
- Subheadings: Justified Alignment, Bold, Font Size – 12 and Font Type – Times New Roman.
- Foot notes and citations of research work are to be given as per the format of Indian Law Institute available at www.ili.ac.in, in single space.
- All submissions are subject to peer review and modification as per the journal style sheet.
- The final decision of the Editorial Board, regarding publication of the article shall be final.
Last Date for Submission
All papers must be submitted before 17th November 2024 to purcl.journaloflaw@gmail.com
Contact Details
Email: purcl.journaloflaw@gmail.com
