Call for Blogs: RGNUL Student Research Review (RSRR) Rolling Blog [Rolling Submissions]

The RSRR Submissions page carries a closure rule that a prospective author needs before anything else. It reads: "Owing to our academic schedule, submissions for the Rolling Blog are closed during June-July and December-January." On that rule the blog is open for the remaining eight months of the year, and closed for the whole of June, July, December and January.

The two official RSRR pages do not read the same way on this. The RSRR home page states: "We are currently accepting contributions to our Volume 11 Issue 2 and Rolling Blog", and it carries a live Rolling Submissions button pointing straight at the Submissions page. The Submissions page, on the same site, states the June-July and December-January closure. Both statements are RSRR's own. Neither page is dated, and neither acknowledges the other.

Both are reproduced here so a reader can see the conflict rather than be told which one wins. If you are reading this inside a closed month, write to RSRR before you submit and ask whether the form is being read, or hold the piece until the window reopens.

The RGNUL Student Research Review (RSRR) is the bi-annual, student-run, double-blind peer-reviewed flagship law journal of the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab. It was established in 2013 as the RGNUL Student Law Review, founded to publish comprehensive, interdisciplinary scholarship on the law and social sciences. It carries ISSN (O) 2349-8293.

RSRR states that it adopts a holistic approach to the study of law and welcomes contributions that engage with the humanities, public policy, governance and quantitative empiricism across all sub-fields of law worldwide. Forewords to its journal issues have been written by Dr Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice BR Gavai and Dr Justice Mukundakam Sharma. The review has carried contributions from Prof. (Dr) Upendra Baxi, Dr Sairam Bhat, Ajar Rab, Abhinav Sekhri and Safir Anand, among others. RSRR features among Feedspot's top twenty-five constitutional law blogs and ranks as one of thirteen Indian law journals in the W&L Law Journal Rankings.

The Rolling Blog is RSRR's platform for shorter-form scholarship. The Submissions page describes it in one line: "The Rolling Blog provides a platform for discussing timely legal issues." Pieces are submitted through a form rather than against a fixed closing date, which is why this listing carries no deadline; the only timing rule RSRR publishes is the June-July and December-January closure set out above.

Alongside the Rolling Blog, the Editorial Board publishes two journal issues each year, each focused on an area of law it considers emerging in relevance. It runs themed blog series through the year, often in collaboration with stakeholders in the legal industry. It invites academics and industry experts to write for the Excerpts from Experts series and occasionally features Editorial Columns by members of the Board.

Since 2019 RSRR has run a weekly social media series called Short Notes, highlighting contemporary legal issues and the legal questions they raise. Its quarterly newsletter, Carpe Quartam, presents notable blog contributions, key events and competitions, and interviews with alumni. Categories on the live blog include Rolling Submissions, Excerpts From Experts, Editor's Column, Book Reviews and Interviews.

RSRR publishes no eligibility rule for the Rolling Blog. The Submissions page sets out the word limit, the citation style, the revision right and the closure months, and says nothing at all about who may write. It does not restrict the call to students, and it does not state that the call is open to everyone. Treat the source as silent on this point, and ask RSRR if your position matters to your pitch.

What RSRR does state, on its About page, is a statement of scope rather than of eligibility: it welcomes contributions that engage with the humanities, public policy, governance and quantitative empiricism across all sub-fields of law worldwide.

The originality requirement is stated plainly in the Copyright Policy and binds every author. The author must declare that the submission is their original work. It must neither have been previously published nor be under consideration for publication on any other platform.

• Word limit: submissions should be around 1,500 to 2,000 words. In certain circumstances where the topic requires a more comprehensive analysis, longer submissions may be considered.
• Citations: avoid footnotes unless absolutely necessary. Use hyperlinks to cite sources instead.
• Route: fill out the Rolling Blog submission form linked on the Submissions page. RSRR names the form as the way to submit a piece for consideration.
• Revisions: where a submission requires changes, RSRR reserves the right to request a revised version before publication.
• Submission window: submissions for the Rolling Blog are closed during June-July and December-January, owing to the academic schedule.
• Journal submissions run on a separate track. RSRR does not accept unsolicited submissions for its Journal. Interested authors are asked to refer to the ongoing Call for Abstracts on the home page for upcoming issues, if available. Past calls are collected in the Call for Abstracts/Papers Archive, which currently holds twenty-one entries running from Volume 1 Issue 1 (2014) to Volume 11 Issue 2 (2025).
• The current journal call listed on the home page is the Call for Abstracts for Volume 11 Issue 2 on the theme 'Law in Practice and Principle: Reimagining the Legal Profession and the Justice System'. Note the dates printed on that page have passed: it states "The deadline for submission is 15 December 2025 by 11:59 PM (IST)" with final manuscripts due tentatively "31 January 2026 by 11:59 PM (IST)", while the home page still advertises the issue as open. Check with RSRR before working to it.

RSRR's Editorial Policy sets out a four phase process for every submission.

• Phase 1: manuscripts are received and screened for compliance with the General Submission Guidelines and the Technical Submission Guidelines. Any non-compliance may be a ground to deem the submission non-responsive.
• Phase 2: compliant manuscripts are sent for review. Stage 1 studies whether the manuscript complies with the designed theme, where one applies, and whether it is barred for reasons of plagiarism. A manuscript may be rejected at this stage, and the author is communicated with regarding the rejection.
• Phase 3: Stage 2 of the review is an in-depth examination of the manuscript against RSRR's predetermined criteria, which include, among other things, the contribution to the existing literature and the legal and factual accuracies of the manuscript. The manuscript may be accepted, rejected, or accepted subject to changes by the author.
• Phase 4: submissions that are subject to peer review under the guidelines concerned are sent for it. The peer may examine the manuscript to accept, reject, or accept it subject to changes by the author.

RSRR's double blind policy means that at no point in this process is the identity of the author or of the editor or reviewer revealed to the other. RSRR does not charge any fee for the publication of a manuscript. In exceptional circumstances RSRR may, in its discretion, waive any of the four phases or two stages of the review process. Under the indemnity clause, authors undertake to indemnify RSRR from any action or suit arising out of the publication, and while RSRR conducts a comprehensive study of everything it publishes, final liability rests with the author.

RSRR frames its Plagiarism Policy on the University Grants Commission (Promotion of Academic Integrity and Prevention of Plagiarism in Higher Educational Institutions) Regulations, 2018. Regulation 8 of those regulations classifies the act of plagiarism in ascending order of similarity. RSRR distinguishes plagiarism, which is passing off someone else's work as one's own, from similarity, which indicates the extent of overlap the submitter's work bears with the existing corpus of literature, including but not limited to books, research articles, web logs, student theses and dissertations. Similarity may or may not amount to plagiarism, so editorial judgment is exercised by RSRR to identify and determine plagiarism where similarity is found.

In accordance with Regulation 7, RSRR excludes from its plagiarism calculation quoted content carrying the requisite permissions or attributions, references, prefatory materials, bibliographies, and generic terminology, words, phrases, laws, symbols and equations. Submissions must be the author's original work and must contribute to the existing corpus of literature so as to minimise similarity and consequently plagiarism. Submissions bearing plagiarism are rejected.

Self-plagiarism, meaning an author's use of parts of their previously published material without appropriate and requisite reference, passing it off as new, is also prohibited. RSRR notes that acts of self-plagiarism give rise to copyright infringement violations because of the conflict between the original copyright holder and the new copyright created with the publisher. Authors are liable and bear sole responsibility for the accuracy of the facts, opinions and views contained in their submission.

RSRR retains all copyrights arising out of its publications, together with the rights to publish, reproduce, distribute, translate and edit the work submitted to it, and the rights to make the submission available in all forms and media. Authors are provided proper attribution and credit, and the moral rights vest with the author.

Authors may not reuse the submission, in whole or in part, in their future work. They do hold a non-exclusive right to create derivative works from it. Authors must secure all necessary copyright permissions for third-party material used in the submission and must ensure it contains nothing defamatory and infringes no literary, proprietary or intellectual property rights or any other rights of that nature.

On fair use: although all submissions are RSRR's exclusive copyright, they may be freely reproduced in part or whole after obtaining due consent. Uses permissible under the fair use doctrine may be undertaken without such consent, but requisite attribution must be made and the use must be non-commercial. RSRR may waive that requirement if it deems fit. Submissions may not be altered, distorted, built upon or transformed in any manner without RSRR's explicit consent, and the licence granted may not be further licensed to a third party without RSRR's consent. A breach terminates the licence to reproduce.

The Copyright Policy routes both of these to a specific address. Consent "may be obtained by sending in a mail addressed to the editorial board at rslr@rgnul.ac.in", and anyone who becomes aware of a use of RSRR material that contravenes the policy is "requested to report the same to rslr@rgnul.ac.in". That spelling, rslr@, is exactly as printed in the policy PDF and is not the rsrr@ address used elsewhere on the site.

Under the Open Access Policy Statement, all Journals and Rolling Blogs of the RGNUL Student Research Review are freely accessible and available for the broader public. RSRR encourages other institutions and publications to adopt similar policies.

Blog series collaborations named by RSRR:

• Ikigai Law, for series on 'Emerging Technologies: Addressing Issues of Law and Policy' and 'Regulating E-Sports: Paving the Road Ahead'
• Nishith Desai Associates, for a series on 'Digital Healthcare in India'
• Argus Partners & Associates, for a series on 'Corporate Governance: Is India Ready?'
• Centre for Internet & Society, for a series on 'Right to Privacy and the Legality of Surveillance'

Journal collaborations named by RSRR:

• IndusLaw, for Volume 10(1) on 'Evolving Corporate Frontiers: Law and Governance Perspectives'
• Saikrishna & Associates, for Volume 7(1) on 'Protecting Consumers in the 21st Century: Broadening the Outlook'
• Arogya Legal and Medical Students Association of India, for Volume 6(1) on 'Healthcare in India: Tracing the Contours of a Transitioning Regime'

Research Assistantship Programme: RSRR states it was the first law review at the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law to offer research assistantships to students. These provide an opportunity for assistants to work closely with guest authors who are publishing in the Journal or the Online Blog, gaining hands-on experience in legal research and writing. RSRR publishes no separate application page or date for the programme.

Notable events RSRR lists:

• Lecture on 'Decoding Forensics: The Interplay of Law and Science', in collaboration with Project 39A
• Practicum Series on 'Understanding the Functioning of Parliament, Law Making, and Career Avenues in Public Policy', in collaboration with PRS Legislative Research
• Panel Discussion on 'Citizen-Police Interactions and Policing in the Pandemic', in collaboration with Common Cause India

Other archived series on the live blog include the A&A, CTIL, Mishi Choudhary, The Dialogue and Section 377 blog series. Thematic archives cover the Budget Session 2021, cyber espionage, data protection, e-commerce law, environmental law, GST, Justice Dipak Misra's legacy, national security law and the right to privacy.

• Patron-in-Chief: Prof. (Dr) Jai Shankar Singh
• Patron: Dr Ivneet Kaur Walia
• Faculty Editor: Dr Ankit Srivastava
• Editor-in-Chief: Kusha Grover
• Managing Editors: Richa Maria Reginald, Sarthak Sahoo
• Senior Editors: Aashi Sharma, K Danitta, Mehul Sharma
• Junior Editors: Ananya Kumar, Anusha Agarwal, Kritvee Sharma, Lakshita Agarwal
• Associate Editors: Aamya Sharma, Anumita Sawhney, Charvi, Divyanshu Sankrit, Harshita Gupta, Mohini Sharma, Ninaad Kapoor, Nirav Maini, Purvi, Ragini Singh

RSRR publishes no personal email address and no phone number for any of these office-holders. The masthead is a list of names only. Every route below is an institutional mailbox, so address correspondence to the desk rather than to an individual.

Fill out the RSRR Rolling Blog submission form linked from the Submissions page at rsrr.in. The form is a Google Form and requires a Google sign-in. Keep the piece to around 1,500 to 2,000 words unless the topic warrants a longer treatment, cite sources through hyperlinks rather than footnotes, and make sure the work is original, unpublished and not under consideration anywhere else. Expect a request for a revised version if the Editorial Board wants changes before publication.

Submissions queries go to submissionsrsrr@rgnul.ac.in. General inquiries go to rsrr@rgnul.ac.in. Requests for consent to reuse RSRR material, and reports of copyright contravention, go to rslr@rgnul.ac.in, the address printed in the Copyright Policy. The mailing address is Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Sidhuwal - Bhadson Road, Patiala, Punjab 147006.