{"id":260531,"date":"2022-01-24T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=260531"},"modified":"2022-01-24T10:54:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T05:24:35","slug":"call-for-proposal-and-papers-3rd-laot-nalsar-courts-constitution-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/01\/24\/call-for-proposal-and-papers-3rd-laot-nalsar-courts-constitution-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Proposal and Papers | 3rd LAOT – NALSAR Courts & Constitution Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Law and Other Things and NALSAR University of Law are organizing the 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0Edition of the Courts and the Constitution Conference. Entries for the same are invited from interested students, scholars, and practitioners of law and other connected fields.<\/em><\/p>\n

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About Law and Other Things<\/strong><\/p>\n

India\u2019s oldest public law blog, Law and Other Things\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(\u201cLAOT\u201d) was founded in 2005 by a few enthusiastic, young legal scholars, to blog as well as share posts and articles about India\u2019s constitutional and legal developments. Since 2017, the Blog has been managed by the student team of NALSAR University of Law under the active supervision of the Senior Editorial Board of LAOT, all of whom are well-established scholars\/practitioners in public law. (In 2020, we marked our 15th year, you can read more about the history of the blog\u00a0here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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About The Courts and Constitution Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n

The inaugural\u00a0edition<\/a>\u00a0of the Courts and the Constitution Conference took place on 26-27 January 2019, with the theme\u00a0“2018: Year in Review”<\/em>. It was a first-of-its-kind initiative in India and discussed the major legal developments and landmark judgments of the year 2018 in light of their long-term impact on the governance and rights of the Republic. The second edition of the conference,\u00a0“The Republic at 70: Past, Present and Future Directions”\u00a0<\/em>was hosted on 25-26 January 2020. More than 25 legal luminaries participated in multiple panels on\u00a0Developments in Equality Jurisprudence<\/a>,\u00a0Reforming Tribunals<\/a>,\u00a0Federalism and the Constitution<\/a>, and\u00a0Citizenship, Residency and the Constitution<\/a>, as well as public guest lectures on capital punishment, among others.<\/p>\n

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The featured speakers in the past two editions included, inter alia, Arun Thiruvengadam, Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Arvind Narain, Chintan Chandrachud, Nizam Pasha, Suhrith Parthasarathy, Aparna Chandra, Anup Surendranath, Arundhati Katju, Alok Prasanna Kumar, Malavika Prasad, Harish Narsappa, Rohit De, Suchindran Bhaskaran, Ujjwala Uppaluri, as well as N.R. Madhava Menon, M.P. Singh and Indira Jaisingh. Both the editions took place in-person at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. The third edition will be hosted on 26-27 March 2022, in a hybrid model (in-person as well as limited online streaming) in light of the extraordinary circumstances created due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n

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About the Call for Proposals<\/strong><\/p>\n

This year, along with invited speakers for the various panels, interested students and professionals in the legal and associated fields are invited to submit proposals for presenting their papers during the conference. If accepted, the applicant will get a chance to present their paper\/ideas as a part of the panel, and proposals shall also be developed into papers that will be published by the Blog. The proposals should pertain to either of the six themes of the panels.<\/p>\n

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Themes for the Panels<\/strong><\/p>\n

This year, LAOT is inviting submissions from authors on the themes of each panel. They are:<\/p>\n

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  1. The State of the Judiciary<\/li>\n
  2. Public Health Crisis and the Constitution<\/li>\n
  3. Emerging Voices – The Shamnad Basheer Memorial Roundtable<\/li>\n
  4. Contemporary Issues in Indian Federalism<\/li>\n
  5. Environmentalism and Governance in South Asia<\/li>\n
  6. Civil Liberties and Criminal Justice<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    More details about each panel can be found in the attached concept note\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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    Eligibility<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Submissions are sought from students and professionals from the legal as well as any connected fields. As the aim of the Call for Proposals is to make the conference more accessible to a younger demographic; students, scholars and practitioners, roughly under the age of 30, will be preferred.<\/p>\n

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    Structure and Rewards<\/strong><\/p>\n