Lex Rex Blog by School of Law, CHRIST (Pune Lavasa) — Rolling Call for Blogs

The Lex Rex Blog invites you to contribute to its student-driven academic platform run under the aegis of the School of Law, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Pune Lavasa Campus. This is a rolling call for blogs, which means manuscripts are accepted at any time throughout the year. The Blog publishes concise, timely, and thought-provoking legal commentary across articles, case notes, opinion pieces, legal updates, and book reviews.

If you enjoy writing accessible, well-argued legal pieces on contemporary issues, this is an open and ongoing opportunity to get published with a recognised law school's editorial team behind you.

The submission portal is temporarily paused. Owing to the exceptionally high volume of submissions received, the Editorial Team has temporarily paused the acceptance of new submissions to ensure each manuscript receives careful and rigorous review.

The portal will remain closed until 1 August 2026, after which submissions will resume in the ordinary course under the rolling model. You can prepare your manuscript in the meantime and submit through the official Google Form once it reopens.

CHRIST (Deemed to be University) is a multi-disciplinary institution headquartered in Bengaluru, conferred deemed university status in 2008 and consistently ranked among India's top universities in the NIRF rankings. The School of Law at its Pune Lavasa Campus runs the Lex Rex Blog as a student-driven academic and analytical platform.

The Blog is dedicated to promoting accessible legal knowledge, encouraging critical engagement with contemporary legal issues, and fostering informed discussion on emerging developments in law and policy, while upholding standards of accuracy, originality, and responsible scholarship.

The Blog publishes original, unpublished legal content under five categories, each with its own word limit (references excluded unless the Editorial Team specifies otherwise):

• Legal Articles — 1,000 to 1,600 words
• Case Notes and Case Commentaries — 800 to 1,400 words
• Opinion and Policy Commentary — 700 to 1,200 words
• Legislative and Legal Updates — 600 to 1,000 words
• Book and Literature Reviews — 600 to 1,000 words

Submissions may address doctrinal, constitutional, statutory, comparative, international, interdisciplinary, or emerging legal issues, provided they show analytical rigour and public relevance.

Submissions are invited from students, academicians, researchers, legal practitioners, and professionals. Co-authorship is ordinarily limited to two authors, unless exceptional justification is provided. Authorship must be limited to those who have made a substantial intellectual contribution to the research, analysis, and drafting; the order of authorship is left to the authors themselves.

All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not under simultaneous consideration by any other journal, blog, or publication platform. Multiple or parallel submissions are strictly prohibited, and any violation of originality or exclusivity norms results in immediate rejection or withdrawal of publication approval.

The Blog has a zero-tolerance plagiarism policy. Every submission is run through plagiarism detection, and the permissible similarity index is up to 10% only — anything above this threshold is rejected without review. The use of AI-generated or AI-assisted content is strictly prohibited. Plagiarism here includes direct copying, improper paraphrasing, unattributed ideas, and secondary plagiarism.

Submissions must conform strictly to the citation style prescribed by the Blog:

• Citation style: Harvard Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, 21st Edition
• Citations: exclusively through footnotes (speaking or substantive footnotes are discouraged and permitted only where strictly necessary)
• Font: Times New Roman — body text size 12, citations size 10
• Line spacing: 1.5, justified alignment

Non-compliance with citation or formatting requirements may lead to rejection or return of the manuscript for correction at any stage.

The Blog follows a two-stage, faculty-assisted editorial review. First, a preliminary blind review by the Editorial Board checks scope, originality, and baseline quality. Submissions that clear this stage are forwarded for a domain-specific blind review by a faculty member with relevant subject-matter expertise. Both stages are blind, with author identity withheld to ensure fairness and academic integrity.

Manuscripts are evaluated on originality, legal accuracy, analytical depth, coherence and structure, practical or academic contribution, and clarity of writing. The Editorial Board communicates its decision within a fortnight (14 days) of submission. Where revisions are suggested, authors must incorporate them and resubmit within the stipulated time, failing which the submission stands rejected.

On acceptance, authors grant the Blog the right to publish the submission in digital format while retaining moral authorship over their work. Any subsequent reproduction must acknowledge the Lex Rex Blog as the original platform of publication.

Submit your manuscript through the official Google Form linked below. The Blog runs on a rolling model, so once the portal reopens on 1 August 2026 you can submit at any time during the year. The Editorial Team may set special deadlines for themed editions or special blog series, and late or incomplete manuscripts may be rejected at its discretion.

• Your piece fits one of the five categories and respects its word limit
• The work is original, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere
• Similarity index is under 10% and no AI-generated content is used
• Bluebook (21st ed.) footnote citations, Times New Roman, 1.5 spacing, justified
• Co-authors limited to two (unless exceptionally justified)
• Submitted via the official Google Form once the portal reopens