Submission Guidelines

The National Law School of India Review (NLSIR) is the flagship student-edited law review published by the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru. The NLSIR holds the unique distinction of being cited four times by the Supreme Court of India. Over the years, the journal has sought to provide incisive legal scholarship on issues at the forefront of contemporary legal discourse.

NLSIR Online was launched in 2018 as a step forward in this direction. This platform is intended to be a forum for regular engagement with contemporary legal developments.

Submission Guidelines

  • All contributions submitted to the NLSIR Online should be original, and should not have any plagiarized content or AI generated content.
  • We accept external submissions via this Google Form.
  • NLSIU students must anonymize and submit their pieces via this special form.
  • The author(s) must confirm that the article is not under simultaneous consideration for publication elsewhere (online or print).
  • Submissions must be approximately between 1500 to 3000 words long.
  • NLSIR Online is flexible regarding the word count depending on the quality of the submission.

Formatting Guidelines

  • The body of the article should be in Times New Roman, font size 12 with 1.5 line spacing.
  • All sources should be hyperlinked in the body of the article and not footnoted. Only if such hyperlinking is not possible (such as in the case of books or academic articles), should footnotes (and not endnotes) be used. Citations must conform to OSCOLA (Oxford University Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities) (4th edn.) style of citation.
  • Authors are required to adhere to the NLSIR Style Guide which can be found here.

General Information

We accept rolling submissions. Upon submission, every article will undergo at least one round of review by the Board of Editors.

Please note that due to the large volume of submissions we receive, we are unable to respond to each individually. If you do not hear back from us within 3 weeks of submission, it means that your article is no longer under consideration for publication.

Contact Information

For any other queries, please contact us at nlsirevonline@gmail.com.