Aims and scope

Founded in 2009, Jindal Global Law Review is the faculty-edited flagship journal of the Jindal Global Law School. The JGLR strives to foster a robust global dialogue on a broad spectrum of legal areas by providing a dynamic platform for scrutinising and examining law and legal systems, both within India and globally. We welcome comprehensive scholarship that contributes meaningful and nuanced analyses of diverse legal frameworks, traditions, and jurisprudence. We encourage submissions in all areas of law and legal systems, including on corporate, commercial, intellectual property, technology, and financial law.

This Journal seeks to accommodate perspectives from an array of disciplines – encompassing black-letter law (public and private), legal history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and cultural studies – to contextualise law and shed light on the relationships between legal systems and their wider environments. We particularly welcome interdisciplinary and empirically grounded contributions that deepen our understanding of how law and legal systems evolve, operate, and impact societies—especially with a focus on India, South Asia and on the scholarship of the Global South.

Beyond country-specific studies, the Journal embraces broader theoretical perspectives that provide methodologies, philosophies, and models for comparing law and legal systems and understanding the variations among them. Research that furthers our knowledge of the impacts of globalisation and international law on domestic legal orders is also a key focus area for us.

The Journal offers a forum for both established authorities and emerging voices, as well as policy-oriented perspectives, to enhance insights into global law. By promoting scholarly excellence and international cooperation, we aim to inform policymaking, drive reform, stimulate innovation, and enrich legal education worldwide.

The Journal follows a double blind peer reviewing process, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process, i.e., neither author nor reviewer is aware of each other’s identities.

Our publication includes peer-reviewed articles, case comments, book reviews, and review essays. We also release thematic special issues on relevant multidisciplinary topics. We uphold the highest scholarly standards through our double-blind peer review process, ensuring impartiality and quality in our publications.

 JGLR is indexed in the SCOPUS database and is published by Springer.

Alongside traditional journal articles, JGLR is open to accepting review essays, case notes, and book reviews for the consideration by its editors with a view to publication.

• Articles are long-form original and unpublished pieces of legal academic scholarship that are usually meant to present a thoughtful and comprehensive analysis of a given subject. Although, we are open to receiving submissions on all areas of legal scholarship that are based on the law of a single jurisdiction, we particularly encourage submissions that contribute towards the understanding of comparative legal scholarship and global law. The prescribed word limit is 8,000-10,000 words (excluding footnotes) along with an abstract between 150 to 200 words and between four to six keywords.

• Review Essays are original and unpublished pieces that are usually narrower in scope than articles. We are open to receiving submissions under this section on issues of general academic interest particularly on matters pertaining to contemporary legal issues arising from the interdisciplinary scholarship of law and other social sciences. We also solicit review pieces on an upcoming or a recently enacted piece of legislation, or the clinical or research findings/experiences in an ongoing or recently published research project. The prescribed word limit is 5,000-6,000 words (excluding footnotes) along with an abstract of between 150 to 200 words and between four to six keywords.

• Case Notes are reviews of a recent judgment in an appellate or constitutional matter focused on the law of a single jurisdiction. However, we encourage submissions that review cases originating from the global south, particularly India and South Asia. We also solicit pieces that review an award/verdict originating from all national or international forums of justice both in the domains of public and private law. The prescribed word limit is 1,500 and 2,500 words (excluding footnotes).

• Book Reviews are commentaries on a recently published or forthcoming book(s) of general scholarly interest. We solicit pieces under this section that contribute to an ongoing scholarly discourse or those that start new lines of scholarly debates and inquiries through their analysis of the chosen books. The prescribed word limit is 2,000 and 3,000 words (excluding footnotes). Alongside traditional journal articles, JGLR is open to accepting review essays, case notes, and book reviews for the consideration by its editors with a view to publication.