Author Guidelines

Guidelines for Submission of Papers

The full paper should be prepared (1) in the MS-Word format, (2) Font: Times New Roman, (3) Title of the paper: Font 14, (4) Subtitles: Font 13, (5) Body text: Font 12, (5) Spacing: 1.5 lines, and (6) should not exceed 6000 words (including footnotes). Exceeding the word limit may lead to rejection of papers.

Submission of a paper amounts to consent to such publication and transfer of copyright to The Maharashtra National Law University (MNLU), Nagpur and consent to edit the paper as may be required. The author shall cooperate with the editor, in respect of such editing.

All references must be in the form of footnotes with font size 10 and should be according to the Bluebook 19th Edition.

The work should be original, previously unpublished and must not be in the stage of submission/ consideration elsewhere.


Publication Opportunity

All the final submission shall be subjected to blind peer review and plagiarism check, subsequent to which the selected papers will be considered for publication in an Edited Book (with ISBN).

Rules for the Participants

  1. The abstracts will be peer reviewed by the organizing committee and only shortlisted abstracts will be invited to submit final papers. The final paper should be submitted after the intimation of acceptance of abstract. The final submission shall be concluded within the prescribed deadline.

  2. No abstract or full paper shall be accepted after the last dates of submission, respectively.

  3. Participants/Paper Presenters have to register after the acceptance of abstract with payment of required fees.

  4. For participation, registration is mandatory on confirmation of the participation.

  5. Only registered participants will be allowed to take part in the Conference.

  6. All the registered participants will be provided with participation certificates.