The Vidhi Mitra Blog is aimed to provide an active forum to the legal fraternity to express and share their experiences and opinions on contemporary legal issues and themes prescribed by the cell. The Blog can be accessed here: https://legalaiddnlu.wordpress.com/

Theme

The Blog is open to any topic or corollary which revolves around “DIVERSITY DEFICIT IN INDIAN JUDICIARY” or any other contemporary legal issue(s) related. The Blog this time will also account for various facts/opinions for, against or with a nuanced perspective on the issue, with respect to the article shared by the Vidhi Mitra team on the blog.

Sub Themes

There are many horizons for the authors to explore for research in the presented theme and put forward their views, but keeping in mind the current subject matters of discussion as presented in the article shared, the sub-themes are the sub-headings presented in the Article.

Submission Guidelines

• The author(s) shall peruse the Article titled “DIVERSITY DEFICIT IN INDIAN JUDICIARY ” posted on the Blog website.
• The author(s) shall draft their viewpoints in the manuscript as a response to the Article in the form of a Counter Article.
• The author may choose one or more sub-themes for his/her manuscript. They may choose to counter the article as a whole or choose to counter arguments presented in any one sub-heading of the article.
• The article should be an original work of the author and neither published nor under consideration for publication in any other journal or blog. The work must not be plagiarized above 10%.
• Co-authorship (limited to 2 authors) is allowed.
• The Word Limit for Counter-Articles is between 3000 to 5000 words if the author is choosing to counter the whole article and 1500 to 3000 if the author is choosing to contradict any onesub-theme.
• Manuscripts above the prescribed word limit shall not be considered as a general rule, except under special circumstances subject to the sole discretion of the Editorial Board.
• In case author(s) want(s) to roll out a series of blogs, the decision on the word limit shall be taken by editorial board accordingly.

Formatting Guidelines

• All submissions should be typed in font Times New Roman with heading size 14, font size 12, line spacing 1.5′; justified.
• The Bluebook, A Uniform System of Citation (20th Ed.) is to be followed for citation. All endnotes must be in Times New Roman, font size 10, single-spacing and justified text.

How to Submit?

The submissions should be made online in an MS Word format document to: legalaid@mpdnlu.ac.in mentioning the details of the author(s), the category of the manuscript and the sub-theme(s) in the word document and not in the body of the mail.

Submission Deadline

The last date for all the submissions will be 28th February 2022.

Contact Details

• Email id: legalaid@mpdnlu.ac.in
• Priyanshee Sharma (Convenor) – 8989163100.
• Aditya Nema (Secretary) – 9516509476.

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