Call for Submissions: The Indian Journal of Law and Technology (IJLT), NLSIU [Special Issue, Vol 21(2)]: Submit by Jan 31

Concerning the Journal

The Indian Journal of Legislation and Expertise (IJLT) is an open-access, peer-reviewed, student-run journal revealed yearly by the Nationwide Legislation Faculty of India College (NLSIU), Bengaluru.

Established in 2005, IJLT was the primary journal in India devoted solely to the evaluation of the connection between legislation and expertise. Over the previous twenty years, it has supplied a sustained discussion board for analysis on expertise regulation, encompassing themes similar to knowledge governance, mental property, platform regulation, data safety, algorithmic accountability, synthetic intelligence regulation, and the broader implications of digitalisation throughout areas of legislation.

Concerning the Quantity

Our imaginative and prescient for Quantity 21(2) seeks to foreground the coverage and empirical questions that come up when authorized and regulatory frameworks for expertise which are usually developed in, and for, jurisdictions within the World North encounter markedly completely different institutional environments, developmental priorities, and constitutional histories.

Expertise regulation within the World South ceaselessly unfolds below peculiar circumstances of uneven state capability, speedy digitalisation, infrastructural heterogeneity, linguistic plurality, and protracted socioeconomic inequality. These circumstances each constrain and form regulatory selections, and so they require conceptual frameworks which are attentive to context moderately than premised on common assumptions.

Sub themes

We search to cowl themes together with, however not restricted to, the next, and we encourage authors to advance associated or novel strains of inquiry:

Investigating how large-scale digital techniques are designed, ruled, and contested within the World South, and assessing their implications for entry, exclusion, and institutional accountability;

Inspecting how synthetic intelligence and automatic techniques are being integrated into administrative, regulatory, and adjudicatory processes, together with questions of transparency, error, discrimination, and the challenges of constructing capability round these instruments.

Assessing rising approaches to knowledge governance, together with collective and neighborhood fashions, public-interest knowledge sharing, state stewardship, and analysing their penalties for autonomy, privateness, and innovation.

Exploring the regulation of digital platforms and intermediaries, with consideration to market energy, interoperability, content material moderation, gig work, and the interface between platforms and casual economies.

Analysing the expansion of surveillance and safety applied sciences and evaluating how courts, legislatures, and regulators reply to issues involving rights, discrimination, and state energy.

Evaluating the environmental and materials dimensions of technological techniques, together with waste, sustainability, provide chains, power use, useful resource extraction, and the governance of climate-related applied sciences.

Inspecting transnational interactions in expertise regulation, together with regional alliances, standards-setting, digital commerce, and types of South-South cooperation and comparability.

The Particular Situation will embody each invited in addition to submitted contributions and goals to replicate a variety of mental, regional, and disciplinary views. We cordially invite people from various areas of research to be a part of, and supply their very own contributions to this Particular Situation. We notably encourage and welcome interdisciplinary work.

Submission Tips

We settle for submissions throughout a number of classes.

Articles (5000-12000 phrases).

Essays (3000-5000 phrases).

Case Notes, Legislative Feedback, Ebook/Article Evaluations (2000-5000 phrases).

Methods to Submit?

candidates can submit entries by way of the hyperlink given on the finish of the submit.

Deadline

The deadline for submissions is thirty first January, 2026.

Contact

Please write to ijltedit@gmail.com in case you have any questions or require any clarifications.

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