Call for Submissions | Socio-Legal Review (SLR) Journal [Volume 20(1)] & SLR Forum
October 28, 2024
Socio-Legal Review Journal
NLSIU’s Socio-Legal Review (SLR) Journal is currently inviting submissions for Volume 21(1) of the Journal.
About the Journal
Socio-Legal Review (SLR) is a peer-reviewed, bi-annual journal that encourages interdisciplinary research at the intersection of law and social sciences. It is 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 in two landmark cases.
SLR seeks to publish scholarship that goes beyond looking at the law as merely a set of rules and doctrines. SLR welcomes interdisciplinary research that critically explores the intersections between the law and the social sciences, especially in the South Asian context. It invites Articles, Notes from the Field, and Case/Legislative Comments 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.
For details regarding the submission categories (Articles, Notes from the Field, and Case/Legislative Comments), click here.
To make your submission for Volume 21(1), please visit https://repository.nls.ac.in/slr/
The deadline for submission is 31st January 2025.
Call for Contributions: SLR Forum
SLR is also accepting submissions on a rolling basis for its online platform: the SLR Forum.
About the Forum
The SLR Forum is envisioned to be an accessible place for discourse around issues that have a socio-legal relevance, including but not limited to contemporary developments. We invite submissions in the form of short essays, commentaries, and other forms of writing ranging between 800-2500 words. Like the SLR Journal, the Forum houses interdisciplinary research. We do not accept pieces that consist of purely doctrinal or legal analysis; submissions must approach the issue through an interdisciplinary lens.
To make your submission for the SLR Forum, you may send an idea/theme you would like to develop further or a complete manuscript directly to
In case of any questions, please reach out to . To know more about its work and editorial policies, please visit https://repository.nls.ac.in/slr/