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MATS Law Review
Editorial
Policy
INTRODUCTION
The MATS
Law Review is an endeavour of the MATS Law School, MATS
University, Raipur. The Law Review will serve as a forum for
the promotion and circulation of views on contemporary legal
issues.
Published
annually, MATS Law Review will be composed of articles,
essays, case comments, legislative comments and book reviews.
Its targeted audience includes members of the legal
profession, teachers of law and other related fields, and
students. It encourages contribution from all such quarters.
Students
may also contribute to the MATS Law Review; however, it is a
policy of the Journal to restrict student contributions to
case comments/legislative comments.
REVIEW POLICY
MATS Law
Review believes in the encouragement of critical analysis and
the interdisciplinary study of law. Submissions which view the
subject matter from a comparative perspective shall be
preferred. Therefore, the scholastic quality of the manuscript
shall be the primary criterion for publication. The same shall
be judged by anonymous peer review of the manuscript. However,
the final discretion as to the acceptance of the manuscripts
rests with the Editorial Board.
PUBLICATION
POLICY
MATS Law
Review publishes original material. Therefore, manuscripts
must neither be under consideration for publication at any
time during the period of consideration by the Journal, nor
previously published. The Journal also has a strict policy on
plagiarism. Plagiarism shall render the manuscript liable for
rejection.
Contributions for “MATS Law Review” are solicited under the
following heads:
ARTICLES:
An article
is expected to include a comprehensive review of the existing
law in a particular area of study, and is conservative in both
choice and analysis of subject. The subject matter is expected
to be dealt with in a detailed and thorough manner.
ESSAYS:
Essays are
usually more adventurous, challenging existing paradigms and
innovatively addressing well-known problems. It is not
necessary for an essay to be as comprehensive as an article,
and it is strongly recommended that essays be considerably
more concise, in terms of scope and conceptualization.
CASE
COMMENTS:
A study of
any contemporary judicial pronouncement (Indian or foreign)
and must contain its analysis, the context in which the
particular judgment has been delivered, its contribution to
existing law and must necessarily comment on the judicial
process involved.
LEGISLATIVE
COMMENTS:
This
entails a critical analysis of any existing Indian legislation
or proposed bills, and their constitutional implications. The
analysis is expected to be original and technical in nature
with specific regard to the constitutional provisions.
The
contributions should adhere to the following specifications:
WORD LIMIT:
The word limit
for articles and essays is between 7,000 to 8,000 words
(inclusive of footnotes), while case/legislative comments must
be confined to less than 4,000 words.
CITATION
FORMAT:
The citation
format to be used is The Bluebook (18th ed.). However,
speaking footnotes are not discouraged.
ABSTRACT:
Every
submission must be accompanied by an abstract of not more than
350 words, which outlines the area of study and any important
conclusions that may be drawn by the author(s).
COVERING
LETTER:
All
personal details, including name, year, name of
college/university, postal address, phone number and e-mail
id, must be provided in a separate letter or file, and must
not be mentioned in the document or file containing the
submission.
SUBMISSION OF
CONTRIBUTIONS:
We
encourage submission of contributions electronically. Kindly
attach your contributions and mark the subject line of email
as “CONTRIBUTION FOR MATS Law Review” and send it to
editormlr@matslawschool.ac.in. Kindly mark a copy of the
mail to
director@matslawschool.ac.in.
Submission
deadline: 31st March 2010
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