About the Conference
National Law Institute University, decided to organise a National Conference on ‘Constitutional Jurisprudence’ sometime in the month of March 2024. Primary aim of this conference is to intellectually empower young faculty of law teachers.
This conference is different from usual conferences on ‘Constitutional Law’ and on ‘Jurisprudence’ in as much as the focus of this conference is on jurisprudential and historical context of constitutional law, conventions and practices. Centre of our focus shall be the Constitution of India, though without reference to other constitutions in the context of history and philosophy of other countries the discussion may not be complete.
The philosophy of the Constitution of India is inspired by the evolutionary changes in the written constitutions of many democratic countries as well as constitutionalism of others. We would not hesitate to appreciate a paper even if its major focus is on foreign constitution and its history with some reference to constitutionalism in general.
Topics
Following sub-topics are only indicative of the scope of the theme of conference, they do not define the scope of the theme exhaustively.
- The preamble, the source of authority of the state, its accountability, constitutional vision, democracy and republican form.
- Fundamental Rights, criminalisation of untouchability, protective discrimination and affirmative action; equality, liberty, fraternity and justice.
- The importance and relationship of Human Rights vis-à-vis Fundamental Rights.
- Constitutional values and constitutional vision.
- Is the parameters of federalism are the characteristics of federalism necessarily confined to the characteristics propounded by K. C. Wheare.
- Freedom of choice and determinism in criminal law.
- Interpretation of the constitution, debate between ‘originalists’ and ‘revisionists’; importance of ‘Human Rights Discourse’ in constitutional interpretation.
- Rule conformist views and rule sceptic views of the constitution.
- Legal Morality, Constitutionalism, Constitutional Morality: Overlap and Separation by the Judiciary.
- Separation of ‘Is’ and ‘Ought’ and its relevance to Constitutional-Jurisprudence.
- Any other sub-theme relating to Constitutional-Jurisprudence.
Submission Guidelines
- The submissions are to be made only in Microsoft Word Format (.docx or .doc files) by filling the given form. Soft copies should be submitted by 29.02.2024.
- All articles, and short articles, must be accompanied by an abstract not exceeding 500 words along with keywords.
- Tentative word limit:
- Long Articles (4000 to 8000 words);
- Short Articles (2000 to 4000 words);
- Case Comments (1500 to 3500 words); and
- Book Reviews (1000 to 3000 words).
The word limit can have a 10% deviation on the discretion of the Editorial Board. Further, it is not inclusive of the Footnotes and Abstract.
- Heading and sub-headings will be formatted with case size of 12 in Times New Roman and Bold.
- Body of the writing will be formatted with case size 12 in Times New Roman.
- Footnotes shall follow the line spacing of 1, and the rest of the manuscript shall follow the line spacing of 1.5.
- All referencing and footnoting shall strictly adhere to the standards laid down in the Oxford University Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities (4th ed.). Substantive footnoting is impermissible.
- All the contributions should be the original work of the contributors and should not have been submitted for consideration in any other Publication. Plagiarized papers will be rejected.
- Co-authorship is permissible up to a maximum of three authors.
- The authors shall not disclose their identity anywhere in the body of the manuscript.
- Copyright Policy- The Author(s) agree to give the Editorial Board all the necessary rights to produce, distribute, and publish the manuscript, including but not limited to online and offline media.
Fee
- Teachers and others: Rs. 2000
- Students: Rs. 500
The fees will be paid by the participants only after their paper is selected for presentation at the Conference.
How to Submit?
Interested candidates can submit papers via the link given at the end of the post.
Contact
For further clarification, please feel free to contact: Mr. Shudhanshu Pratap, Mr. Ujjawal Joshi and Mr. Ritik Nandan, Email – shudhanshupratap@nliu.ac.in and Mobile – 9454034500, +91- 7827111561, +91- 9752236379
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