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Submission Guidelines - Blog

Contributors

We accept submissions on a rolling basis from students, legal professionals, teachers, researchers, policy-makers, senior academicians, and any member of the legal fraternity. The submission should be original and unpublished and not under review in any similar platform.

Subject Matter

  1. Submissions will be accepted on contemporary and relevant issues in areas such as Company law, Insolvency law, Securities law, Competition law, Arbitration Law, Law of Taxation, IPR, Trade Law, and Employment law.

  2. Submissions can take the form of articles, short notes, opinions, case comments, book reviews, and responses to an existing post on the blog on the abovementioned topics.

 Content Guidelines

  1. The submission should reflect original and unpublished work. A maximum similarity of 15% is allowed. Non-adherence to this rule shall result in the rejection of the article summarily.

  2. Submissions must ideally be limited to a length of 1500 words. However, the author can exceed the limit in case it is necessary. This limit shall be exclusive of any explanatory endnotes that are added. 

  3. Submissions should be made in Microsoft Word (.docx) format.

  4. The submission should adhere to the following formatting style:
    For the body - Garamond, 12, 1.5" spacing, Justified alignment.
    For the endnotes - Garamond, 10, 1.5" spacing, Justified alignment.

  5. Relevant sources such as judgments, laws, treaties, news articles, and other legal texts must be added as hyperlinks in-text. Where sources are unavailable as open-source documents, endnotes may be added adhering to the Uniform Bluebook 20th Edition citation style. (Note: Please do not use footnotes)

  6. The submission should have an informative and narrative title. It should be precise and should sum up the crux of the article. Ideally, keep the length of the title to 20 words or less. If the author wishes the Editorial Board to assign a title, the author should inform the same in the form.

How to Contribute

  1. All submissions must be made by filling out the Google form available in the Submit button below. Please do not send submissions via email; submissions sent via email will not be accepted.

  2. Please do not disclose your identity in the Word document when making the submission. We follow a blind peer review process. 

  3. Co-authorship of up to 3 authors is allowed.

We aim to email the author regarding the editorial board's decision within ten (10) working days. If you do not receive a reply within fifteen (15) working days, please email us at arbitrationcorporatelawreview@gmail.com and cc rajabhayuk@gmail.com.

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(The Editorial Board holds absolute discretion in deciding whether the submission should be published. In case of any dispute, the decision of the Editorial Board will be final and binding.)

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Note: On publication of the article, the copyright over the article shall automatically transfer to the Arbitration & Corporate Law Review. Therefore, all the articles shall be shared on various social media platforms, such as Arbitration & Corporate Law Review. We allow cross-posting of the published blog posts on other platforms. However, this is subject to the condition that such cross-posting shall duly acknowledge that the Arbitration & Corporate Law Review originally posted the article.​

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