Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Trade, Law and Development seeks to provide an avenue for the free exchange of ideas on issues of relevance to world trade, international law and development. The Journal commits itself to the cause of eliminating the problems that plague the world today, in particular the developing nations. It is in this spirit that we publish quality “Articles”, “Notes”, “Comments” or “Book Reviews” from distinguished and diverse authors, including, inter alia, judges, scholars, policy-makers, practitioners and students. 

 

The following is a suggestive subject list outlining the scope of the journal: 

  1. International law (Public/Private);
  2. International Trade;
  3. Environmental law;
  4. Investment law;
  5. Intellectual Property and trade;
  6. Public health and trade;
  7. Arbitration;
  8. Competition law and policy;
  9. Economics and law;
  10. WTO;
  11. Law of International Financial Institutions;
  12. Sustainable development.

 

 

Section Policies

Articles

Articles must deal with issues of contemporary interest and relevance and must demonstrate a high-level of analysis. Articles of a purely descriptive nature, unless about a development in a country or a region which may necessarily be of a descriptive nature, are not preferred. Articles should generally be between 10,000-20,000 words in length, though the length may vary as per the author's needs.

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Notes

This section includes shorter Notes and Comments. Notes cover a recent development or are issue specific in analyzing a "micro-legal" question.

Comments are essentially a critical analysis of an issue of relevance, including case laws, policy and legislative developments. Notes and Comments should be between 5,000-10,000 words in length. We encourage student submissions for this section.      

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Recent Developments

This sections offers a digest of the latest and significant developments in the focus areas of the Journal. These may often be in the form of very-short comments (2,000-4000 words) analyzing the implications of the developments and raising some important questions for future discussion.

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Book Reviews

Suggestions for "Book Reviews" may be sent to the Editors [editors[at]tradelawdevelopment.com]           

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Peer Review Process

All submissions are reviewed by the Board of Editors who may, if they so desire, subject any submission to a process of peer review.

The peer review process, if resorted to, usually involves two to three reviewers and takes 2-4 weeks from the date of submission for peer review. The submitted manuscripts are reviewed on, inter alia, the following parameters:

  • Relevance;
  • Structure;
  • Content;
  • Language;
  • Originality;
  • Cited sources.
Besides, the Editors also invite commentaries from distinguished scholars from time to time. These are not subject to the process of peer review.

 

Publication Frequency

Trade, Law and Development is a bi-annual journal published in yearly volumes of two issues each.

Apart from the journal website, where all works are available for free and open access as soon as each issue is published, each issue of TL&D is published in hard-copy, as well. For institutional and individual print subscriptions contact "The Registrar, National Law University" at nlu-jod-rj[at]nic.in with the subject "Trade, Law & Development Journal Subscription"

 

Open Access Policy

This Journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. TL&D is a signatory to the Budapest Open Access Initiative.

"Open Access", with reference to Trade, Law and Development, is defined by the following characteristics: "free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work, to the maximum permissible extent, and the moral right to be properly acknowledged and cited." (See generally, Budapest Open Access Initiative)

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Subscriptions

An annual subscription comprises two issues plus any special issues. Prices include postage charges.

Annual Subscription Rate (Volume 2, 2 Issues, 2010)

India:

Individual: INR 250 Institutional: INR 800

International:

Individual: US$ 30 Institutional: US$ 100

Annual Subscription Rate (Volume 1, 2 Issues, 2009)

India:

Individual: INR 250 Institutional: INR 500

International:

Individual: US$ 30 Institutional: US$ 60

Payment must be made by way of a banker's draft or cheque drawn in favour of “The Registrar, National Law University” payable at Jodhpur. International payments may also be made by way of a draft or cheque. For further information on international subscriptions please contact the Registrar, National Law University, Jodhpur (nlu-jod-rj[at]nic.in; Cc: editors[at]tradelawdevelopment.com) with the subject “International Subscription for TL&D Journal”.

 


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