Submission Guidelines for Blog

The NLR Blog follows a themed monthly submission cycle. At the beginning of every month, a Call for Blogs based on a specific contemporary theme shall be released. Authors will ordinarily be provided a submission window of 10-15 days from the date of the announcement to submit their manuscripts.

Following the closure of submissions, the Editorial Board shall review the manuscripts during the remainder of the month. Decisions regarding acceptance or rejection of the manuscript shall ordinarily be communicated to the authors by the end of the month. The Call for Blogs for the subsequent month, carrying a new theme, shall generally be released during the final week of the ongoing month.

All submissions must comply with the following guidelines:

1. Submissions must be made through the Google Form only.
2. The submission should deal with relevant and contemporary legal and policy issues within the scope of the notified theme for the ongoing month through LinkedIn posts of NLIU Law Review.
3. Only original content will be accepted. Submissions will be screened for similarity index and AI-generated content.
4. The submission should strictly adhere to the word limit of 1,000 to 1,500 words. This stipulation may be relaxed at the discretion of the Editorial Board in exceptional cases.
5. The NLR Blog strictly prohibits the submission and publication of manuscripts that purposefully target or intend to harm the religious, socio-cultural, and/or political sentiments of any reasonable reader. Submissions must strictly remain limited to legal analysis of the covered topics.
6. References must be provided in the form of hyperlinks. Use of endnotes should be strictly limited to circumstances where a hyperlink reference is unavailable. For endnotes, the Oxford University Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA) (4th Edition) must be adhered to.
7. Authors are requested to upload a non-copyrighted image to accompany the manuscript. The image should be representative of the topic, area, or argument and must be of high quality (preferably upwards of 1000 pixels).
8. Manuscripts that have already been submitted or published elsewhere must not be submitted.
9. The maximum period for retraction of a submission shall be 7 days from the date of submission.