This book will serve as an opportunity for academicians, teachers, researchers, and practitioners to respond to the emergent necessitate for new insights and perspectives to get better legal research policy and practice in the era of technology.

The book will be published with a reputed publishing house. Efforts will be made by this edited book is to identify and investigate the opportunities available for the advancement of legal research and challenges that present legal research systems are facing due to technical advancement.

Sub-themes

The book focuses on the original research papers in the following subjects and other allied areas which aims to investigate the impact of technological advancement on legal research.

• Development of the legal research methodology,
• Use of technology in legal research,
• Legal research in the era of artificial intelligence,
• Dimensions and scope of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary legal research,
• Jurimetrics,
• Importance of literature review in research,
• Plagiarism in legal research,
• Empirical legal research,
• Effects of COVID-19 on legal research,
• Challenges of legal research in the era of pre & post COVID-19,
• Contemporary issues and perspectives of legal research,
• Legal research and online legal database/open access database,
• Legal research v. Academic freedom,
• Identifying new tools for data collection during COVID-19, and, or
• Any other connected sub-theme.

Submission Guidelines

• Word limit: 300 words maximum.
• The abstract should not be plagiarised or written using paraphrasing tools.
• Abstract should be accompanied by the title of paper, name of the author(s);designation; institution; email address of the authors.
• Times New Roman 12 with 1.5 line spacing

Formatting Guidelines

• All submissions must use A4 format, with 1 inch margin on all sides
• Use Times New Roman font with font size of 12 and line spacing of 1.5.
• All references should be footnoted in Times New Roman font size 10 and line spacing of 1.0.
• Maximum Work Limit: 5000 words including footnotes.
• Speaking footnotes are allowed, though heavy usage of speaking footnotes is discouraged. Use of endnotes is not allowed.
• All submissions must be in .doc, word or .docx format. Submissions made in .pdf format or in any other formats shall not be considered.
• Number of Author: Paper can be co-authored. However, maximum of two authors is allowed.
• All contributions and correspondence should be addressed to ‘The Editors, Legal Research In an era of technological advancement: Opportunities, Challenges, and the way forward.’
• The manuscript should be accompanied with the author’s name, designation, institute,contact number and e-mail for future reference.
• Footnote Style: Footnoting or Citation style prescribed under SILC shall be followed in order to maintain uniformity across submissions. http://silcmanual.com/

General Instructions

• All submissions must be the original and unpublished works of the author(s). The contributions shall be evaluated on the basis of originality, innovativeness, clarity and technical correctness.
• Preference would be given to the submissions made pertaining to the themes and sub themes given.
• In case of reference to unpublished works, the author shall be deemed to have obtained the permission of the referred author.
• All contributions to the book are peer reviewed by its expert advisory board subject to the editorial approval and test of plagiarism.
• Plagiarism in any form shall result in instant rejection of the submission.
• Submissions will be checked in Turnitin Similarity Index and should not exceed 10% similarity including footnotes.
• Verbatim reproduction of legal provisions, judgements and other legal sources should be avoided to the maximum possible extent.
• The Editors of book shall not be responsible for any material that is libellous or scandalous.
• The decision of the Editors in this matter is final and binding.
• Any paper that is written using a paraphrasing tool will be rejected at the outset.

How to Submit?

All submissions must be through e-mail at bennettsolresearch@gmail.com

Hard copy submissions are not allowed.

Important Dates

• Submission of title and abstract : 10th February 2022
• Decision on acceptance of title and abstract: 14th February 2022
• Submission of full papers: 12th March 2022
• Selected paper information based on Similarity Index and Peer Review: 25th
  March 2022

Contact Information

• Editors: bennettsolresearch@gmail.com
• Animesh Kumar: L21SOLP0016@bennett.edu.in
• Manisha: L21SOLP0008@bennett.edu.in

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