Lawctopus is announcing a call for research papers, providing an exclusive platform for budding legal scholars to showcase their research and insights.
Lawctopus is announcing a call for research papers to provide law students nationwide with quality insights to supplement their legal studies.
We want YOU to share your research papers on any law subject or topic you love!
Whether you’re into criminal law, constitutional law, business law, or anything in between, we’re all ears.
This call for research papers is an opportunity to explore your interests, deepen your understanding of legal issues, and contribute to the collective knowledge of the legal community. You will also get FREE access to our meticulously curated self-paced workshop!
Note: We strongly recommend that the “research papers” be used only to supplement your education and to support you in exam preparation. As a would-be lawyer, there is no substitute for studying Bare Acts, Case Laws, and Research Papers through and through.
Who can Submit?
- Law students (UG, PG, PhD) currently in college.
- Law graduates (UG/PG/PhD) can share updated research papers.
- Lawyers.
- Academicians.
Why Submit?
- Get your research paper published in an online journal bearing an ISSN number (ISSN: 2349-9796), giving your work wider visibility and credibility!
- Research papers published on Lawctopus will receive a certificate of publication from Lawctopus. You will be acknowledged for your research, and writing abilities and earn brownie points on your CV!
- All research papers will contain the author’s tagline (name and link) and byline (2-3 sentences about them). Through this and our massive reach, you will be recognised in the legal community!
- Get FREE access to our meticulously curated self-paced workshop worth up to Rs. 1,200/- after your research papers are uploaded post quality checks!
Submission Guidelines
- The research papers should be typed and not handwritten.
- The research papers should be sent via Google Forms as a Doc or Docx file only. The submission should be the original work of the author(s).
- Lawctopus will upload only ‘Quality Research Papers’. Quality Research Paper contain a lot of inputs from the authors and are not a mere rehash of content taken from multiple places.
- We highly encourage the use of tables, flow charts, and other creative structures to organize information/knowledge.
- Research Papers should NOT be plagiarised. Of course, they can contain text sections taken from sections, judgments, or books. These should be cited, and no more than 10% of any specific ‘work’ can be copied verbatim.
- The title of the doc/file should state the name of the author and their college, year of study, and the subject’s name.
Formatting Guidelines
- All research papers should contain a detailed ‘Table of Contents’ which mentions the topic, sub-headings, sub sub-headings, and page numbers.
- Font size and style of the body of the research paper: 12, Times New Roman with the line spacing at 1.5
- The case laws mentioned in the paper should be bold + italicised. IndianKanoon or any other trusted, open-source links should be cited for caselaws.
- Sections used should be boldened. IndianKanoon or any other trusted, open-source links should be cited for sections.
- Footnotes and hyperlinks are encouraged and should be used uniformly.
- Font size and style for Footnotes: 10, Times New Roman
- Font size and style for Headings: 16 and bold, Times New Roman
- Font size and style for sub-headings: 14 and bold, Times New Roman
- Font size and style for sub-sub-headings: 12 and bold, Times New Roman
Submission Process
- All submissions must be sent via the form attached at the end of this post.
- Only research papers that meet Lawctopus’ selection criteria and formatting guidelines will be published on our platform. The published authors will be notified about their access to our free self-paced workshop.
Contact Information
In case of any queries, you can reach out to aditya.aryan@lawctopus.com
Click here to submit your research paper.
Disclaimer: WEF April, 2021, Lawctopus will not publish any ‘Call for Papers/Blogs’ by journals that charge money at the time of submission. If you find any journal doing so, please intimate us at tanuj.kalia[at]lawctopus.com