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Environmental Law

Environmental Law

Journal of Centre for Environmental Law, Institute of Law, Nirma University (ISSN: 2456 – 2246, 2020) is a biannual; Peer reviewed journal run by the Centre for Enviromental Law of the Institute.

The Board of Editors of the Journal of Centre for Environmental Law is pleased to invite original, unpublished manuscripts for publication in the upcoming Special Issue on Climate Change and Law.

Call for Papers

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The Centre for Environmental Law, Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad works to advance understanding, research, and dialogue on contemporary environmental issues through an interdisciplinary approach. Its scope extends across academic research, policy analysis, capacity-building, and community engagement. The Centre undertakes research projects, organises workshops and expert sessions, competitions, and facilitates student involvement in environmental law and governance. It also aims to strengthen the interface between law, sustainability, and public policy by promoting collaborations with institutions, practitioners, and stakeholders. Through these initiatives, the Centre seeks to promote informed decision-making and contribute meaningfully to environmental protection and sustainable development.

  • The Centre for Environmental Protection aims to serve as a nodal centre in the field of Environmental Law by promoting, encouraging and initiating research related to the different environment related issues including analyzing the various laws along with factual reality related with environmental protection. To achieve this, aim the centre will emphasis and focus on the following areas:
  • Analysing public policies and their implementation in the field of environmental law.
  • To collaborate with the different stakeholders for research and environment awareness.
  • To promote, support and assist education and personal training program designed to enhance environmental information processing and utilization capabilities.
  • To coordinate with students and faculty participation in the environmental studies program that has connected and collaborative learning as a central goal.
  • Along with research activities, the centre proposes to conduct various theme-based activities on Environment protection and sustainability, and it will work in coordination Eco Club of the Institute.

Petron-in Chief and Advisory Editorial Board
Prof. (Dr.) Madhuri Parikh
Petron-in Chief, Institute of Law,
Nirma University		 Prof. Geetanjali Joy Sahu
Professor, Centre for Climate Change & Sustainability Studies, School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Miss Kanchi Kohli
Researcher, Educator and Communicator of Environment Law and Policy		 Dr. Amar Pal Singh
Vice Chancellor, National Law University, Lucknow

Faculty Editors
Prof. (Dr.) S. P. Rathor
Professor
Institute of Law, Nirma University		 Dr. Parna Mukherjee
Associate Professor
Institute of Law, Nirma University
Dr. Deba Ranjan Hota
Assistant Professor
Institute of Law, Nirma University		 Dr. Swati Mawndiya
Assistant Professor
Institute of Law, Nirma University
Dr. Bini B.S.
Assistant Professor
Institute of Law, Nirma University		 Dr. Neeraj Kumar Gupta
Assistant Professor
Institute of Law, Nirma University

Student Editors

Shreeja Mitra
Managing Editor (Batch 2023)
Katyayini Rana
Associate Editor (Batch 2023)		 Sarthak Gupta
Associate Editor (Batch 2024)
Anand Singh
Associate Editor (Batch 2024)		 Vandana Pareek
Associate Editor (Batch 2024)
Rohit Asnani
Associate Editor (Batch 2023)

➢ COVERING LETTER- All submissions must be accompanied by a covering letter stating
the title, author’s full name, university and year of study and the author’s contact
details. Only the covering letter should contain the above-mentioned
details and not the manuscript.

➢ Submissions must be in MS Word.

  • MAIN TEXT – Times New Roman, font size 12, 1.5 spacing, justified, with a margin left 1.5 inch and right 1.0 inch, top 1inch and bottom 1 inch. The first line of the paragraph is not to be indented.
  • FOOT NOTES – Times New Roman, font size 10. Substantive foot notes are accepted.

➢CITATION-The Bluebook: A Uniform Method of Citation, 20th Edition shall be strictly adhered to.

➢REFERENCES- The style of referencing should be as follows:
BOOKS: Robbins, Stephen P, and Coulter, Mary (2011). Law, New Delhi: Pearson Education.
PAPERS IN JOURNAL: McGRegor, D (1957), “Uneary Look at Performance Appraisal,
Harvard Business Review, 35 (1) 89-94.

➢LENGTH OF THE PAPER/ARTICLES/CASE STUDIES: The length of the paper
including tables, diagrams, illustrations, etc, should not exceed 6000 words. Short
Communications, book reviews, case studies/executive experience sharing, etc. should
not exceed 4000 words; however, the Editorial Board reserves the right to make changes
to this condition.
All tables, charts, graphs, figures etc. should be kept to the minimum. They
should be given on separate sheets with sources indicated at the bottom.

➢ABSTRACT – The typescript should be accompanied by an abstract in about 200 words
along with a declaration that the paper has not been published or sent for publication
elsewhere.

➢CONTACT DETAILS
A soft copy of the transcript in PC compatible MS Word document format should be
emailed to the editor at: centenvlaw.il@nirmauni.ac.in
The Editor in Chief,
Journal of Centre for Environmental Law,
Institute of Law,
Nirma University
S.G. Highway, Ahmedabad 382 481, Gujarat, India. Email: centenvlaw.il@nirmauni.ac.in

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Subject: Assignment of Copyright.

Sir/Ma’am,

I __________________________________________________ author of the paper titled ______________________________________________________________ do hereby authorize you to publish the above (subject to the peer review board’s decision) said paper in the Journal of Centre for _____________________ Vol._______ issue __ further state that:

  1. The paper is my original contribution. They do not infringe on the rights of the others and do not contain libellous or unlawful statements.
  2. The work has been submitted only to the Journal of Centre for _________________ and has previously not been published or used in another publication.
  3. I do hereby authorize you to edit, alter, modify and make changes in the submission and the process of preparing the manuscript to make it suitable for publication.
  4. I hereby assign all the copyrights relating to the said submission to the Journal of Centre for ____________________
  5. I have not assigned any kind of right of the above said submission to any other person/publication/institution/
  6. I agree to indemnify the Journal of Centre for _________________, Ahmedabad, against any claim or action alleging fact, which, if true, constitute a breach of the foregoing warrants.

 

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Date:  ______________.

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