About The National Law University, Jodhpur
National Law University-Jodhpur (NLUJ) is one of India’s leading Law Schools situated at the vibrant and colourful city of Jodhpur, Rajasthan. NLUJ has constantly been ranked as one of the top law schools in India. Since its establishment in 1999, NLUJ has endeavoured to produce exceptional lawyers and legal scholars aimed at pushing and challenging the existing boundaries of knowledge.
The University has developed a holistic approach towards understanding law and justice from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The University offers unique five year integrated undergraduate programs i.e. B.B.A., LL.B.(Hons.); B.A., LL.B.(Hons.); to generate especially skilled global legal professionals. These integrated programs offer highly demanding honors courses in various facets of law such as Constitutional Law, Business Law, Trade Law, International Law, Criminal Law and Intellectual Property Rights Law.
About The Scholasticus
Scholasticus (ISSN 0975-1157) is one of the earliest publications by National Law University, Jodhpur established with the objective of promoting academic research and fostering debate in the field of Banking & Finance. The Journal has been re-launched after a gap of a few years, and is now published under the aegis of the Centre of Studies in Banking and Finance at National Law University, Jodhpur. It is a bi-annual, double-blind student reviewed and edited journal, with an ambit broad enough to include issues in the fields of project finance, private equity, corporate finance, debt restructuring, capital markets, etc. The Journal has had the privilege of publishing the articles from some stalwarts of the legal arena including Abir Lal Dey (Partner, L&L Partners Law Offices), Justice K.G. Balakrishnan (Former Chief Justice of India), Fali S. Nariman (Senior Advocate at Supreme Court of India), etc. To know more or check out our previous issues, please visit our website here. Submissions can be made by filling this form.
About The CSBF
The Centre of Studies in Banking and Finance at National Law University, Jodhpur (CSBF) was established by the Reserve Bank of India in 2002. The Centre provides a platform for scholars and practitioners to exchange views on issues dealing with banking and financial systems through its Conferences, Essay Competitions, Workshops and Discussion Forums. CSBF seeks to promote discourse related to the banking sector, capital markets, and other financial services. The Journal is another venture of the Centre to associate with professionals, judges, academicians and students to discuss ideas related to the banking and finance sector.
Submission Categories
Scholasticus (ISSN 0975-1157) is accepting submissions under the following categories:
Long Articles (6,000 – 8,000 words): Long Articles must comprehensively analyze important themes and may adopt comparative perspectives. It must analyze the current practice in the field, identify the lacunae therein and provide constructive suggestions.
Short Articles (3,000 – 6,000 words): typically identify a specific issue, which may be of contemporary relevance and present a central argument.
Case Notes, Legislative Comments, Book/Article Reviews (1,500 – 3,000 words)
Submission Guidelines
The Journal is pleased to invite submissions for its Volume IX, Issue II. The deadline for sending submissions for the forthcoming volume is July 7, 2021.
All submissions must be in MS Word format (.doc) or (.docx), with Times New Roman font (Main text: size 12 and line spacing: 1.5, footnotes: size 10, and line spacing: 1).
An abstract of not more than 250 words must be provided.
Co-authorship (up to 2 authors) is permitted.
No biographical information or references, including the name(s) of the author(s), affiliation(s), and acknowledgments should be included in the text of the manuscript, file name, or document properties.
Scholasticus uses only footnotes (and not endnotes) as a mode of citation. Submissions must conform to the Bluebook (20th edition) Citation style.
Submissions are accepted for publication on the condition that they do not infringe on the copyright or any other rights of any third parties. Any form of plagiarism is strictly discouraged. The manuscript shall be disqualified from consideration of publication in case the plagiarism crosses the threshold of 20% (twenty percent).
Submissions made to Scholasticus shall be exclusive and must not be concurrently under consideration by any other publication.
Themes
Scope, Needs, and Efforts to ease listing, financing & securitization of Startups
Changing legal landscape for credit derivatives
Enhancing risk management system of clearance houses
The emergence of new ways for management of stressed assets
Upping the ante in IT Services for Banks – How prepared is India in moving towards becoming a cash-free economy
Standardization of practices in the Insurance sector.
Please note that the aforementioned themes are merely indicative and not exhaustive.
Important Date
The deadline for sending submissions for the forthcoming volume is July 7, 2021.
Contact
In case of any queries, please write to [email protected] or to the following student editors of the Journal:
Pooja Dhamor ([email protected]| 8890253685); or
Vaishnavi Bansal ([email protected] | 9660565847)
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