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• The submission should address current issue(s) impacting India in any of the following areas of law: corporate, banking, insolvency, taxation, competition, trade, white-collar crime, employment, insurance, and commercial disputes. 

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• IELR considers two forms of submissions:

  • Open to practitioners and academics: Brief note updating readers of legal developments, grey areas in the law, or unaddressed challenges, not exceeding 500 words.

  • Open to practitioners, academics, and students: Detailed analytical articles on contemporary matters, not exceeding 1500 words.

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• Referencing should be through the means of hyperlinking within the text of the article itself. If there is no online source available/ such referencing is otherwise not possible, footnotes may be used.

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• The submission must be made in an MS Word document formatted using Times New Roman font, size 11, line spacing 1.15.

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• The body of the manuscript should contain the details of the author(s) including Name, Institution/ Organisation of Affiliation, and if applicable, Year of Study. Co-authorship is permitted up to two (2) authors.

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• The body of the submission email should contain the abstract of the manuscript, at least three keywords, and if applicable, the LinkedIn URL of the author(s).

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​General

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• Please refer to our policy here.

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• The author is responsible for ensuring the accuracy of statement of facts, opinions or views in the submission.

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• Analytical submissions would be preferred over descriptive submissions. 

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• Plagiarism is strictly prohibited, and similarity is allowed up to 15%. 

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• The submissions should be an original work of the author and should have not been published previously or currently submitted for publication to any other platform.​

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• Cross-posting of manuscripts published by IERL is permitted, so long the cross-posted manuscript carries wording to the effect that the material was “first published on the Indian Economic Law Review (<website link>)”.​