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Submission Guidelines

To submit your manuscript for consideration for Volume VII Issue 1 of the Journal on Corporate Law and Governance, please follow these guidelines:

Theme

The broad theme of the Journal for Volume VII Issue 1 is “Unraveling the New and Old Conundrums of Corporate Law – A Call for Harmonization.”

 

Sub-Themes

The sub-themes for this issue are as follows:

  1. Role of Smart Contracts in Decentralized Finance.
  2. Right of Redemption of Borrower under Section 13 of the SARFAESI Act: Analysing Celir LLP v. Bafna Motors (Mumbai) Pvt. Ltd.
  3. Regulating Big Tech – Does India need a new ex-ante digital competition legislation?
  4. Scale-Based Regulation of NBFCs in India: A Critical Analysis of the Master Direction (Non-Banking Company – Scale Based Regulation) Directions, 2023.
  5. Decoding the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
  6. End of the Party for FinFluencers? Analysing SEBI’s Regulatory Crackdown on Finfluencers.
  7. Insolvency of Data-driven Companies: Is the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 Competent?

Please note that the list of sub-themes is merely suggestive and non-exhaustive in nature. The authors can choose to submit manuscripts on other relevant and contemporary topics.

Submission Dedline

The deadline for receipt of submissions is 15st January 2024.

Submission Guidelines

Please note that the submissions must conform to the following requirements:

  1. The author(s) may contribute to the Journal in the form of Articles, Notes, Comments and Case Analysis.
  2. The acceptable length of Articles is >4500 words, and of Notes, Comments & Case Analysis is between 3000-4500 words, including footnotes.
  3.  All submissions must include an abstract of not more than 300 words, explaining the main idea, the objective of the article and the conclusions drawn from it.
  4. Each submission may have a maximum of two authors.
  5. The manuscript should be on A4 sized paper, in Garamond, font size 12, 1.15 line Spacing, justified and 1-inch margins on each side. Footnotes should be in Garamond, font size 10 and with single line spacing.
  6. The Authors must conform to the Bluebook (20th edition) Uniform System of Citation. Please refer to our guide to Bluebook (20th edition) here.
  7. The Manuscript should not contain any identification of the author/s, which shall be a ground for rejection of the submission. Authors should provide their contact details, designation, institutional affiliation and address in the covering letter for the submission.
  8. The submission must be the original work of the authors. Any form of plagiarism will lead to direct rejection.
  9. The relevant sources should be duly acknowledged as footnotes. The decision of the Editorial Board in this regard shall be final.

Submission Procedure

  1. Authors are requested to send an electronic version of their manuscripts .doc or .docx format to journal.governance@gmail.com with the subject as “Submission- [Name of Author] – Volume VII Issue 1.”
  2.  The document name must be in the following format “[Name of Authors(s)] – [Title of submission].”
  3. The e-mail must contain a covering letter providing the contact details, designation, institutional affiliation and address of the authors.