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About the UPES School of Law

UPES was established in the year 2003 through the UPES Act, 2003 of the State Legislature of Uttarakhand. With an ambitious vision and peerless approach, UPES emerged as an innovative institution offering industry-specialised undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the fields of Engineering, Business, Law, Design, Health Sciences and the newest of the lot – Modern Media.

The university’s singular purpose is to enable each one achieve their individual purpose in life, through the guiding light of knowledge. The university believes that each one is empowered to pursue their dreams and passions in a meaningful and responsible manner. Thus, enabling one to choose life-pathways that fulfil their individual purposes fruitfully is the ultimate motivation of UPES.

About the Blog

The SCLHR Blog is a student-edited, peer-reviewed and an open-access blog maintained by the Society for Constitutional Law and Human Rights. We at SCLHR seek to provide a platform that promotes and sustains informed discussion and dialogue on emerging issues in the field of Constitutional Law and Human Rights. We further welcome original contributions from students, researchers, academicians, legal practitioners, and those who are enthusiastic to engage in academic discourse and widen the scope of the Constitutional study for our readers through their creative and informative research works. Keeping the objective of our society, we highly encourage our authors to explore critical and multidisciplinary perspectives on Constitutional developments in and beyond India. Hence, with the above objectives in mind, we welcome all submissions on the field of Constitutional Law and Human Rights subject to the following guidelines.

Submission Guidelines

The article should be an original work of the author and not under consideration for publication in any other journal or blog. All submissions will undergo a mandatory plagiarism check. The plagiarism percentage should not exceed 20%.
Co-authorship is allowed up to one author for the articles.
The word limit for submissions is about 1500 words exclusive of endnotes. All documents/sources must be cited in the hyperlink format, and the authors must use endnotes and not footnotes wherever the document to be cited is not publicly available.
The format for citation will be Bluebook 20^th Edition.
The content should be written in the font style of Times New Roman with a font size of 12. Line Spacing is to be maintained at 1.5.
Authors must include their full name and the details of their institution/organization along with their submission.
The Editorial Board shall review the article and get back to the authors within a few weeks of acknowledging their submission.
The copyright over the articles shall automatically be transferred to the University through the Editorial Board.
The SCLHR Editorial Blog follows a 2-tier review process. Therefore, the authors can expect a response from the Editorial Board regarding their submission status within 8- 12 working days from the date of acknowledgement. Please ensure that the submissions to SCLHR Blog which are under review, must not be submitted to any other forum for review/publication. In case of any deviance from this guideline will be subject to a final decision of the Editorial Board in reference to the document submitted.
In relation to all the disputes, the decision of the Editorial Board shall be final and binding.

Submission Formats

1. Articles: Authors can submit articles on the themes of Constitutional law and Human Rights below-mentioned. The articles must aim to analyze the issue comprehensively and further, we encourage originality and a creative outlook in the analysis of the issue.

2. Case Comments: Authors can choose to analyze a judgement/judgement of Constitutional relevance aiming to understand the substance of the pleadings before the Courts and the impact of the Court’s understanding of Constitutional Law.

Legislation Reviews: Authors can analyze the Constitutionality of a legislation or various executive actions within India. Alternatively, authors can also choose to analyze legislations outside India which have a significant impact on the understanding of Constitutional law within India.