CfP: PGCL’S Annual Conference 2025 at SVKM's Pravin Gandhi College of Law [Sept 20]: Submit Abstract by Sept 10

About SVKM

Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal (SVKM), a public charitable belief registered beneath the Societies Registration Act and the Bombay Public Trusts Act, has been devoted to delivering high-quality training since 1934. Beginning with the Rashtriya Shala, a faculty based in 1921 throughout the Nationwide Motion, SVKM now educates over 35,000 college students.

Rooted in patriotic fervor, selfless service, and indigenous enterprise, these values information all SVKM establishments. Over the many years, it has advanced right into a nationally acknowledged academic enterprise throughout numerous streams. With a dedication to holistic scholar growth and a robust inner group, SVKM combines state-of-the-art infrastructure with a contemporary academic imaginative and prescient.

About PGCL

Established in 2004 beneath SVKM, the Pravin Gandhi Faculty of Regulation (PGCL) is completely affiliated with the College of Mumbai and is dedicated to delivering high quality training that meets world and native requirements. The school provides a 5-Yr Built-in B.A.LL.B. program, a 2-Yr LL.M. with specializations in Enterprise Regulation, Prison Regulation, and Prison Administration, and a 1-Yr Put up-Graduate Diploma in Cyber Regulation and IT every authorized by the College of Mumbai. PGCL is the primary and solely legislation school beneath the College of Mumbai to be awarded an ‘A+’ Grade with a 3.28 CGPA by NAAC in its first accreditation cycle, recognizing its excellence in lecturers, instructing innovation, and holistic scholar growth.

Guided by a imaginative and prescient to supply competent and socially conscious authorized professionals, PGCL focuses on interdisciplinary studying, crucial pondering, and the pursuit of justice with compassion. Its dedication to nurturing tutorial areas that stimulates mental curiosity is mirrored in its initiatives, notably the Annual Convention, held persistently since 2017. In its earlier editions, the convention has explored themes intersecting legislation with training, inclusivity, media, gender, sustainable growth, and democracy.

This 12 months’s theme, Regulation and Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Discourse, continues this legacy by providing a platform for academicians, practitioners, and students to interact in cross-disciplinary dialogue and discover the evolving moral dimensions of authorized apply.

Concerning the Convention

One of many core questions that legislation seeks to deal with is: ‘What ought to one do?’ This inquiry is intently tied to ethics, which provide guiding rules to stability particular person selections with collective good. Whereas legislation gives enforceable guidelines for societal order, ethics form the ethical compass behind these guidelines.

The connection between legislation and ethics raises essential questions: Do moral values type the idea of some legal guidelines, like these defending human rights? Can sure legal guidelines, corresponding to these regarding euthanasia, abortion, or marital rape, battle with societal morals? How do authorized methods reply when actions are moral however unlawful or authorized however morally debated? These dilemmas demand interdisciplinary exploration. In at this time’s world context, such challenges are heightened by considerations like environmental degradation, poverty, expertise, and socio-political battle. Points corresponding to AI elevate moral considerations about privateness and accountability, whereas the refugee disaster exams authorized and ethical duties of states towards displaced populations.

This 12 months’s convention goals to research these ethico-legal complexities by means of a multidisciplinary lens, drawing on fields corresponding to anthropology, sociology, philosophy, theology, literature, journalism, and cinema. It seeks to foster a nuanced dialogue on how legislation and ethics form human behaviour, justice, and the stability between particular person rights and societal values whereas navigating the strain between what’s authorized and what’s moral.

Name for Papers

They invite papers from authorized professionals, academicians, practitioners, and college students throughout disciplines to deal with the theme of the conference- ‘Regulation and Ethics’ from different views.

Sub themes

The checklist of urged themes isn’t exhaustive. Contributors are inspired to discover varied different sub-themes that align with the primary theme of our convention: Regulation and Ethics.

Theoretical, philosophical or utilized approaches to authorized ethics

Intersection of morality and legislation

Ethics in authorized apply

Judicial Ethics

Position of society, tradition, and spiritual ethics in authorized methods

Moral considerations in Synthetic Intelligence and Tech-law

Ethics in company and enterprise legal guidelines

Constitutional Morality

Environmental Ethics

Inclusivity and moral issues

Bioethics

Obligation vs Rights throughout the ethical dilemma

The function of ethics in judicial decision-making

Up to date moral debates in landmark circumstances

Ethical philosophy and its function in shaping modern authorized methods

Authorized-ethical dilemmas in fiction and cinema

Ethics in literature

Submission Tips

The next are the rules for the submissions of summary, papers and shows. All contributors are suggested to strictly adhere to those tips and tailor their submissions accordingly.

Summary

All potential contributors are required to submit an summary of most 500 phrases within the hyperlink supplied under. 

The summary submission should comprise the Title and e mail of the writer, checklist of references, 3 key phrases and the working title of the paper.

Co-authorship is permitted and restricted to 2 authors per paper.

Abstracts should solely be uploaded on the hyperlink supplied, every other mode of submission isn’t permissible.

Abstracts will likely be thought-about solely after the price fee.

Paper Presentation

Chosen papers will likely be known as upon for a 15-minute presentation on the convention.

Papers could also be introduced in-absentia (on-line) at request of contributors.

A ‘Finest Paper Introduced’ certificates will likely be awarded to the most effective presenter.

Contributors whose abstracts aren’t chosen are welcome to attend the convention and will likely be awarded a certificates of participation.

Formatting Tips

All papers are anticipated to strictly adhere to the prescribed formatting tips for his or her paper submissions.

Plagiarism should be strictly restricted to a most of 10% as per institutional checks.

Using AI is strictly prohibited.

The submissions made should be unique, unpublished and shouldn’t be into consideration elsewhere.

The submissions needs to be made in English.

Font Fashion: Occasions New Roman, Textual content Measurement: 12, Footnotes: 10.

Permissible phrase restrict: 3000-6000 phrases (most).

Citations are important.

Quotation style- Harvard Bluebook nineteenth version.

Papers should be coherent and grammatically appropriate.

Publication Tips

There will likely be a two-step overview course of for the choice of papers that will likely be formally printed.

Solely chosen papers will likely be printed.

Solely papers that strictly adhere to all the rules talked about above will likely be thought-about for publication in a e book with an ISBN quantity.

The ultimate choice of papers will likely be on the sole discretion of the organizers.

These papers that don’t conform to tutorial requirements won’t be chosen for publication.

A certificates and an e-book of abstracts will likely be given to all paper presenters.

An e-book will likely be supplied to all of the contributors.

A print copy of the ISBN E-book will likely be despatched solely to the authors whose papers are printed.

No refunds shall be made beneath any circumstances.

Necessary dates

Final date for submission of abstracts- tenth September 2025.

Intimation of choice: fifteenth August 2025.

Full submission of papers: tenth November 2025.

Date of the convention and Paper presentation: twentieth September 2025.

How you can Submit?

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

Charge

The next checklist particulars the registration charges for the contributors.

All potential contributors are required to make their funds accordingly.

For PGCL College students:Participation fees- 200 INR.Paper presentation (Single writer)- 400 INR.Paper presentation (Co-authors)- 500 INR.

Inside SVKM College students:Participation fees- 300 INR.Paper presentation (Single writer)- 500 INR.Paper presentation (Co-authors)-  600 INR.

Outdoors SVKM College students:Participation fees- 400 INR.Paper presentation (Single writer)- 600 INR.Paper presentation (Co-authors)- 700 INR.

Inside SVKM Workers:Participation fees- 500 INR.Paper presentation (Single writer)- 800 INR.Paper presentation (Co-authors)- 1000 INR.

Outdoors SVKM Professionals:Participation fees- 600 INR.Paper presentation (Single writer)- 1000 INR.Paper presentation (Co-authors)- 1200 INR.

How you can Pay?

All funds in respect to the participation within the convention needs to be made by means of the mediums talked about under:

DD/Pay Order in favor of Pravin Gandhi Faculty of Regulation payable at Mumbai or Web Banking Cost to the Pravin Gandhi Faculty of Regulation.

BANK DETAILS:Title of the Financial institution: HDFC BANKA/C Quantity- 03210330000171Branch: JVPD Scheme, M-56Type of Account: Present accountIFSC Code: HDFC0000321

Venue & Date

Date- twentieth September 2025.

Venue- Juhu Jagruti Corridor, 1st ground, Mithibai Faculty, Mumbai-400056.

Timings- 9:00 am onwards

Contact

For any additional questions or data please be happy to succeed in out to us and our scholar coordinators on:E-mail id- ethicslawconf2025@gmail.comSoumya Bhattar- + 91 6232391225Shrishti Shastry- +91 9820961272

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