South Asian Postgraduate Law Conference 2022 25th and 26th November 2022

Organised by
Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Faculty of Law, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Faculty of Legal Studies, South Asian University, India
Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai, India
Jindal Global Law School, OPJGU, Sonipat, India

We are pleased to announce the first SAPLawC’22, which is to be held virtually on 25^th and 26^th November 2022. The SAPLawC’22 aims to bring together research scholars working in the area of legal issues that are of concern within the South Asian countries. The purpose of the Conference is to encourage the young research scholars to present their research before a panel of academic experts and to receive valuable feedback for further research. Furthermore, this Conference seeks to build fruitful research collaborations among legal institutions across South Asia.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Conference welcomes submissions by postgraduate law students, who currently follow LL.M., M.Phil. and Ph.D. research degree programmes affliated to institutions within South Asia . The thematic areas of the Conference will be centred around legal issues of relevance to South Asia. The acceptance of abstracts will depend on the relevance of the issues raised by the conference panels and the originality of research after being screened by a panel of reviewers. The abstracts selected by the reviewers will be invited for a full paper presentation at the Conference.

Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Sri Lanka Journal of International Law, subject to a careful selection following editorial and peer reviews.

THEMATIC AREAS FOR SUBMISSIONS

Commercial, Trade and Intellectual Property Law
Constitutional and Administrative Law
Environmental Law and Governance
Family and Tort Law

Human rights and Humanitarian Law
Private International Law
Public International Law
Any legal topic concerning the South Asian countries

RELAVENT DATE

Last date for the submission of abstract	30^th January 2022
Announcement of accepted abstract	28^th February 2022
Last date for the submission of full paper	30^th August 2022
Final conference date	25^th and 26^th November 2022

Concept Note

REGISTRATION AND SUBMISSION PROCESS

Authors shall register and submit their abstracts here.
In the case of more than one author, only the corresponding author must initiate the registration process.
Co-authorship is allowed up to a maximum of two authors for one paper.
Authors shall fill in all their particulars and upload their abstracts on the given link to complete the registration and submission.
Authors shall make all the submissions only in .doc format.
On the successful registration and submission of the abstract, authors will receive a confirmation email.
Participation in the Conference is free of cost.

GUIDELINES FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

Authors shall write an abstract of 300 words relating to the theme of the Conference.
The abstract shall include a suitable title for the paper, the name of the author(s), and their affliation.
The abstract shall be coherent and free of grammatical errors.
Selected abstracts may be published for the conference proceedings.

GUIDELINES FOR FULL PAPER SUBMISSION

The main text of the full paper should be written in Times New Roman font size 12, with 1.5 line spacing, and footnotes in Times New Roman font size 10, with line spacing 1.0.
All the headings should be numbered and written in font size12. Each main heading (first level) should be capitalised, bold, and centre aligned. The second-level heading should be in title case, bold, and left-aligned. The third level heading should be in title case and left-aligned.
Authors should follow the OSCOLA mode of citation throughout the paper.
The word limit for the full papers should remain between 5000-6000 words, including footnotes.
All the authors shall give an undertaking that the plagiarism of the paper is below the permissible limit of 15%.
Research should be the original work of the author and must not have been submitted or accepted for publication.
Authors should strictly adhere to the following formatting guidelines:
- ❖ Do not use abbreviations without prior explaining the terms.
- ❖ Do not use bold and underline to highlight the text.
- ❖ Use single quotes to emphasise a word or phrase.
- ❖ Quotations of more than three lines should be centre aligned and written separately from the paragraph within double quotes.
- ❖ Tables and charts should be centre aligned if used.

CERTIFICATION

E-certificates will be provided to all the author(s) who present their papers at the Conference.
Best paper presentations will be awarded in all the themes at the Conference.

COORDINATORS

Dulki Seethawaka, M.Phil/Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Colombo & Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court, Sri Lanka
Buddhika Munasinghe, M.Phil./Ph.D. Candidate & Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Fraz Ashraf Khan, Assistant Professor & In-charge Department of Law, University of the Punjab, Jhelum Campus, Pakistan
Imran Alam, Assistant Professor, University Law College, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Siddharth Singh, Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Legal Studies, South Asian University, New Delhi, India
Prakriti Malla, Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Legal Studies, South Asian University, New Delhi, India
Amana Khare, Research Assistant, Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Adithya Variath, Research Assistant, Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Raabia Abuzer Shams, Assistant Professor & Ph.D. Candidate, Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India
Shantanu Saha, Ph.D. Candidate, Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India