ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY
The Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law (‘RGNUL'), Punjab was established as a National Law University by a legislative act of the state of Punjab in 2006 in order to fulfil the need for a centre of excellence in legal education.
ABOUT THE JOURNAL
The CASIHR Journal on Human Rights Practice (JHRP) is a new endeavor of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Human Rights (CASIHR) in furtherance of its aim of understanding the expanding horizons of Human Rights Law and Practice. The journal is a bi-annual peer reviewed referred journal with ISSN: 2581-4834 aimed at contributing to the literature on Human Rights and providing a platform for academicians, professionals and students to contribute to its growth in addition to promote research and deliberation in the field of Human Rights. It aims at encouraging academicians, professionals as well students to contribute long articles, short articles/essays, book reviews and case comments related to the field of Human Rights.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Centre for Advanced Studies in Human Rights (CASIHR), Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab invites long articles, short articles, essays, case comments and book reviews for Volume 6, Issue 2 of the CASIHR Journal on Human Rights Practice (CASIHR JHRP). To provide a platform for more pointed, specialized and diverse inputs and analyses, the adherence to a rigid thematic issue has been dispensed with. Therefore, this particular volume is not theme specific in nature and authors are free to write on any topic relevant to the field of Human Rights. The manuscripts received will, after initial screening, go through a double blind peer review process by relevant academicians and experts. Final selection will be based on the aforementioned process.
Submissions can be made under the following heads:
1. Long Articles — Maximum preferred word limit 7000-8000 words.
2. Short Articles/ Essays – Word Limit of 5000 – 6000 words.
3. Case Comments – Word Limit of 3000 – 4000 words.
4. Book Reviews – Word limit of 1500 – 2500 words.
5. Abstracts- Word limits of 250-300 words. The word limit is exclusive of footnotes.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
All the contributors must adhere to the following guidelines:
1. All Submissions must be accompanied by an abstract not exceeding 300 words.
2. Manuscripts must be in English and should be submitted in softcopy through email, at casihr@rgnul.ac.in
3. The body of the document must be in Times New Roman with a font size of 12 and Line Spacing of 1.5.
4. All the footnotes should be in Times New Roman, Font Size 10 and with single line spacing.
5. The citations must conform to OSCOLA style.
6. Co-authorship is permissible up to a maximum of two authors.
7. Book reviews must contain—the name of author/editor and book reviewed, place of publication and publisher, year of publication, number of pages, and price. 8. Plagiarism should be less than 10% as per UGC norms.
9. All submissions are required to be mailed in .doc/.docx format only
10. All the submissions must be mailed only to casihr@rgnul.ac.in with a cover letter specifying the following:
1. Name of Author(s)
2. Designation
3. Names and Address of Institution
4. Contact Details— Address and Mobile No.
5. Undertaking regarding Originality of the work and Transfer of copyright in compliance with UGC Norms and RGNUL rules for publication.
LAST DATE OF SUBMISSION: 25th November, 2022 by 11:59 PM.
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