Call for Blogs: USLLS ADR Blog on Alternative Dispute Resolution (Rolling Submissions, No Fee)

The University School of Law and Legal Studies (USLLS) was established in 2001 and is located at the Dwarka campus of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi. The school works on legal education across theoretical and clinical streams, with an emphasis on advocacy, counselling and mediation skills. The USLLS ADR Blog is run by the ADR Cell of the school.

The USLLS ADR Blog is an initiative of the University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. The editorial position stated on the blog is that sustained academic deliberation is needed for Alternative Dispute Resolution law to grow and to become the mainstream route to resolving disputes. The blog aims to provide a platform for discussion on ADR among academicians, researchers, students and practitioners, and to gather the viewpoints of the various stakeholders in the field.

Submissions are invited from academicians, researchers, law students and legal practitioners. The call is open to all relevant submissions pertaining to the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution law. The blog publishes across formats that include ADR Highlights, ADR-Simplified and the Experts' Corner.

• Submissions should range between 1,000 and 2,000 words, exclusive of endnotes.
• Longer posts may be published in parts at the discretion of the editorial board.
• Co-authorship is allowed up to two authors.
• An abstract of not more than 100 words must accompany the submission, and is exclusive of the word limit.
• A short biography detailing the author's current designation and institutional affiliation must also be submitted.

• Submissions must be the original and unpublished work of the author or authors. Any form of plagiarism results in automatic rejection.
• A Turnitin similarity index above 20 per cent, after the usual exclusions such as bibliography, quotes and small matches, leads to rejection.
• The use of artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT is strictly prohibited.
• Names, institutional affiliations and any other identifying details must be left out of the document so that the double-blind review can proceed.

• Main text: Times New Roman, size 12, line spacing 1.5, justified.
• Citations by way of endnotes, in Bluebook 20th edition format.
• Endnotes: Times New Roman, size 10, line spacing 1.0, justified.
• The file must be a Word document in .doc or .docx format.

Every submission goes through a double-blind review in which the manuscript is evaluated by two editors on different parameters. The review ideally concludes within 14 days from the date of the acknowledgment of the submission. The decision, whether unconditional acceptance, conditional acceptance or rejection, is then communicated to the author, who is given 10 days to make the changes suggested by the editorial board.

On acceptance of a manuscript for publication, copyright over the manuscript vests in the blog, while the moral rights remain with the author or authors. The blog accepts only original and exclusive submissions, and once a manuscript is accepted it cannot be sent elsewhere for publication.

Submissions are rolling, so there is no closing date. Send your piece through the blog's Google submission form, linked below. The submission guidelines page states no publication or processing charge, and queries may be sent to the blog's operations or submissions inbox.