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Submission Guidelines

Send in your draft write up at anshuman@thelawblog.in and we’ll let you know after an editorial review. Kindly give us ten days to get back to you. Note that we revert only when a submission is approved for publication. If you don’t get a reply within ten days, you are free to publish your submission elsewhere.

We prioritize submissions focusing on legal innovation, latest research findings, legal opinion pieces, among others. If you have an idea that you would like to explore, please feel free to drop us a mail describing your idea.

Formatting guidelines:

• Times New Roman, Font size 12 (Footnotes at 10), Line spacing 1.5.
• Submit as an MS Word document (that is, doc or docx format).
• Word limit – 1000 to 1200 (relaxable).
• Footnotes/Endnotes are allowed. However, hyperlinks over footnotes!

Note: 

1. For every published submission, the copyright shall vest with Law Matters Centre for Research, Education, and Social Action (LaMCRESA).
2. Every submission must be accompanied by a declaration to the following effect:
   1. That, the author agrees to transfer the copyright over the submission to LaMCRESA, if the write-up gets published on The Law Blog.
   2. That, the author shall not submit the piece elsewhere for publication while it is still under review with The Law Blog.
3. We reserve the right to make minor editorial revisions to enhance the readability of the blogs.

AI Policy

We welcome the use of generative AI in your submissions.

Since 2016, the purpose of The Law Blog has been to democratise legal opinion and analysis to voices that the profession’s linguistic hierarchies have kept at the margins, and we believe GenAI can become a powerful means to that end. First-generation academics, scholars without native fluency in English, students without editorial mentoring can now draft, translate, and refine their argument in ways that were previously gated by privilege.

We encourage authors to use AI tools to improve and refine their workflows and drafts. However, we require you to strictly follow three non-negotiables:

1. Veracity: Every source, fact, and claim in your submission must be true, verified, and accurately cited.
2. Authorship: Agency is a must for authorship, and hence, only humans can be named as authors/co-authors for now.
3. Transparency: AI is awesome, but passing off AI-generated content as human-generated content is not. Please make sure your submission is accompanied by a complete disclosure as to how AI was used, the tools, and the tasks it was engaged in.

Whether or not you use AI, your submission will be judged on how interesting it is, how unique it is, and how intimately it expresses your lived (preferably) experiences. Make sure AI doesn’t flatten your voice.