Call for Papers: Socio-Legal Review, Volume 22(1), Deadline for submission is 31st January, 2026.

Socio-Legal Review is currently inviting submissions for Volume 22(1) of the Journal.

The deadline for submission is 31st January, 2026.

Socio-Legal Review (SLR) is a peer-reviewed, bi-annual journal that encourages interdisciplinary
research at the intersection of law and social sciences. We are an open-access, student-run journal
published by the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. First published in 2005, the
Journal has carried articles by luminaries in the field of law and society and has been cited by the
Supreme Court of India on two instances.

SLR seeks to publish scholarship that goes beyond looking at the law as merely a set of rules and
doctrines. We welcome interdisciplinary research that critically enquires into the intersections
between the law and the social sciences, especially in the South Asian context. We invite Articles,
Notes from the Field, Case/Legislative Comments and Book Reviews from diverse disciplines and
areas of study that engage with the law including but not limited to:
● ethnographic and anthropological studies of the everyday working of the law
● legal history and historical analyses of the law and legal institutions
● decolonial, postcolonial, Marxist, feminist, queer, class, anti-caste, and critical race studies
perspectives toward the law
● social movements, and the law as a catalyst or impediment for social transformation
● public policy and planning, regulation, and governance and administration
● study of legal institutions, systems and cultures, and institutional reform
● pedagogy, legal methods, and the intersection of legal theory and social/political theory
● identity, migration and citizenship studies
● environmental, land, and urban studies
● religion and minority studies
● bioethics, medico-legal, healthcare, and disability studies
● civil society, human rights, and socio-economic welfare
● criminal law, criminology, and law and justice
● law and the humanities, including literature, theatre, film, media studies, literary criticism,
philosophy, and so on.