Call for Blogs: Law School Policy Review (LSPR), NLSIU Bengaluru [Rolling Submissions; No Fee; 1,800-3,000 Words]

The Law School Policy Review (LSPR) is an online law and policy platform run by students of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. It uses legal expertise and analytical skills to present novel arguments on domestic and international issues that affect daily life.

Founded in May 2018, LSPR was started with the objective of creating an open-access online platform to generate discourse on law and policy, of which there is a noticeable lack at the university level in India. It is the successor to the Critical Twenties Blog, founded by Dr. Arghya Sengupta in 2010. The platform covers areas as wide as public law, foreign affairs, economics, jurisprudence and politics, and also hosts the Axes of Difference Column, a space for analysing law and policy through an intersectional, critical perspective.

LSPR is frequently cited across platforms and academic journals in India and abroad, including The Diplomat, The Print, Firstpost, Vice, Voelkerrechtsblog, SCC Online, Mondaq, Modern Diplomacy, Independent Australia, Social Change Journal and The Indian Journal of Law and Technology. Its articles have been cross-posted on LiveLaw and The Eleventh Column, featured on global academic resource compendiums, and cited in legislative notes circulated among Members of the Indian Parliament.

LSPR accepts submissions on any relevant and contemporaneous issue in law or government policy. There is no restriction to a single theme, and submissions are open throughout the year on a rolling basis.

Only original work will be considered. All submissions are screened for plagiarism, and pieces already under review elsewhere will not be accepted.

Authors should also ensure that their theme and core arguments have not already been substantially covered in past articles on LSPR. Such submissions will be rejected without review. This restriction does not apply to responses or contrary opinions to existing content on the platform.

Submissions are welcomed from students, academics, professionals and practitioners alike.

• Co-authorship of up to three authors is permitted.
• Authors from outside NLSIU submit through the online submission form.
• All submissions from students of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore must instead be sent directly to lawschoolpolicyreview@nls.ac.in.

• General submissions: word count should preferably fall between 1,800 and 3,000 words, though this is flexible at the Editors' discretion in exceptional cases.
• Axes of Difference Column: submissions intended for this column may be between 1,000 and 3,000 words. Authors must indicate on the submission form that the piece is intended for the column.

• Submissions must be made as a Microsoft Word document (.docx).
• Neither the document title nor its body should contain any personal identifiers, that is, no names or institutional affiliations. A short author bio and affiliated institution must be provided separately in the submission form.
• The document title must include five keywords describing the article's subject matter.
• All references must be provided as hyperlinks within the text. Footnotes or endnotes should be used only where a hyperlink is unavailable, and must follow OSCOLA (4th edition).
• A short abstract and author bio must accompany the submission.
• Authors must attach a high-quality image representative of the submission's topic, at least 1000px wide and in a 2:1 aspect ratio, along with the image source for creator credits.

Submissions are made through the official LSPR online submission form, linked under Important Links below. Upload the anonymised .docx manuscript along with the author bio, affiliation, abstract and the accompanying image.

Students of NLSIU Bangalore must not use the form and should email their submissions directly to lawschoolpolicyreview@nls.ac.in.

For articles on very recent developments that may lose novelty within days, authors may request expedited review by adding the word "Expedited" to the title of the piece.

The Editorial Board reserves final discretion over whether a piece is accepted or rejected for publication on the blog. Submissions are evaluated on originality, argumentation, language, structure and analysis. Purely descriptive pieces are discouraged.

• The two-stage review cycle allows the Editorial Board up to 14 days to respond with a verdict.
• Once accepted, publication follows within 7 days.
• Articles marked "Expedited" are reviewed within 7 days, solely at the Board's discretion.
• Due to the volume of submissions, LSPR does not send formal acknowledgements of receipt. Editors respond directly with a verdict.
• When responding to an Editor's comments, authors must retain those comments in the document and make all edits in track changes mode.

LSPR is an open-access platform and charges no submission fee, processing charge or publication fee.

Once published on LSPR, a piece may be cross-posted on other platforms, provided the cross-post carries the note "First posted on Law School Policy Review" with a link to the original LSPR post.