The Centre for Intellectual Property Rights of the National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS), is happy to announce a new call for posts for its official blog, The IP Site.
About The CIPR
The National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS) Kochi, established the ‘Centre for Intellectual Property Rights’ (CIPR) to promote Intellectual Property awareness among students, and to encourage research in the emerging arena of Intellectual property. The Centre fosters R&D activities that blend with its central mission of intellectual pursuit as well as link related inter-disciplinary involvement to develop an intellectual law-database, which would benefit the nation at large. The main objective of the Centre is to evolve into a flagship institution of intellectual property law studies in India.
CIPR is proactively engaged in the organization of seminars, workshops and conferences, publishing its flagship journal ‘The IP Law Review’, and its blog, The IP Site.
About The IP Site
The IP Site is a leading Intellectual Property Law blog, founded as an initiative of the CIPR, NUALS. Established in 2016, The IP Site is dedicated to the publication of original articles, essays and other similar resources on developments in Intellectual Property Law, to encourage and stimulate the awareness and importance of the same.
Call for Posts
We invite contributions from all students (including non-law students), academicians, scholars, lawyers and members of and outside the legal fraternity, to develop and enable our understanding of IPR.
We are looking for contributions on any contemporary topics or themes of IPR that is of relevance and significance today, in its application in India and across the world.
We accept submissions on a rolling basis.Authors contributing 4 or more posts shall be awardeda Certificate from the CIPR, acknowledging their contributions.
Instructions for Submissions
Format
Blog entries must strictly be in English and in electronic form. They are further to be submitted in .doc /.docx /.odt formats only.
How to Send Them
They shall be mailed to ciprblog@gmail.com. The mail accompanying the submission shall include the following details of the author:
- Name
- E-mail-id
- Contact number
Co-authorship is permitted, to the limit of 2 authors, in which case, the aforementioned details of both of whom, shall be included in the accompanying mail.
Kindly submit the Declaration Form (available at the link below) duly filled, along with the mail accompanying the submission.
Word Limit
Submissions shall not exceed 1000 words (excluding endnotes). However, as a matter of editorial discretion, this may be relaxed to1500 words. Only endnotes are permitted. Hence, submissions shall not contain footnotes.
Presentation
Submissions are to be made in Times New Roman, font size-12, line spacing-1.5 and endnotes’ font size-10. Submissions must follow the Bluebook (20th Edition) style of citation.
Disqualifications
Plagiarism (including self-plagiarism) shall entail immediate disqualification.
Only the first communication of your submission shall be considered. Hence, multiple submissions of the same entry, with or without modifications, shall not be acknowledged.
Our ‘Policy’ and ‘Terms and Conditions’ are also available at the link below.
Contact Information
In case of any queries or clarifications, kindly contact:
- Ananthesh
Managing Editor,
The IP Site
E-mail: ciprblog@gmail.com
For the declaration form and further information regarding submissions, click HERE .
