Socio-Legal Review

Infobox Journal
title = Socio-Legal Review


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discipline = Law review
language = English
abbreviation = SLR
publisher = Law and Society Committee, National Law School of India University, Bangalore
country = India
frequency = Yearly (published in July/August)
history = 2005 to present
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impact =
impact-year =
website = http://www.sociolegalreview.in/
ISSN = 0973-5216

The Socio-Legal Review (ISSN 0973-5216) is a student-edited and peer-reviewed interdisciplinary law journal, published annually by the Law and Society Committee [ [http://www.nls.ac.in/students_committees_lawandsociety.html Law and Society Committe, NLSIU] ] , an activity based committee of the Student Bar Association [ [http://www.nls.ac.in/students.html Student Bar Association, NLSIU, Bangalore] ] , National Law School of India University, Bangalore. [ [http://www.nls.ac.in/students_events.html#socio About Socio-Legal Review from National Law School website] ]

Objective and Mandate

The Socio-Legal Review was founded in 2005. Its chief aim is to inspire socio-legal writing among members of the legal and social science community. It is one of the first legal journals in India and South Asia which aims at exploring themes relating to the interface of law and society and providing a platform for students and young scholars from the developing world. The Review is keen to give 'law and society' an expansive interpretation which include not just writing about the role played by law in social change, or the role played by social dynamics in the formulation and implementation of law, but also writing that simply takes cognizance of legal institutions,institutions of governance and administration, power structures in social commentary and so on. [About Socio-Legal Review, [http://www.sociolegalreview.in/about.htm www.sociolegalreview.in] ]

Through this effort, the journal also hopes to fill the lacunae relating to academic debate on socio-legal matters among law students both in India and the developing world. A rigorous editorial process ensures that quality submissions are published in the journal, including but not limited to field-reports, narratives, comparative perspectives, personalised accounts and full-length articles. Special regard is given towards developing socio-legal jurisprudence from a critical South Asian and Third World perspective. Besides articles, the journal has a column titled 'Law's Translations'which includes shorter pieces designed to provide a glimpse into a new legal strategy, political initiative or advocacy technique applied in the field, a current problem or obstacle faced in, legal reform or development work, or a new issue that has not yet received much attention and needs to be brought to light. This section is designed for the student researchers, legal practitioners, field staffers, and activists who often have the most significant insights to contribute, but the least time to write longer scholarly articles.

Previous Issues

The first issue of 'Socio-Legal Review', published in 2005, carried the theme 'Law and Marginalisation'. The first issue included contributions from Shail Mayaram (Senior Fellow, Centre for Study of Developing Societies, Delhi), Sivamohan Sumathy (University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka), apart from contributions from within the National Law School. The articles ranged from migration and displacement of Sri Lankan Tamil Women to 'Reservation Policy of India and Rawls' Theory of Justice' and 'Contours of the Dalit Movement'. [ [http://www.sociolegalreview.in/volume1.htm Volume 1 (2005), Socio-Legal Review] ]

The second volume, published in 2006 had articles by W. T. Murphy (London School of Economics and Political Science) and Rajeev Dhavan (Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India). As a theme was not imposed writing ranged from subjects as varied as the interface of patent law and public health to the impact of genetics on criminology and theories of crime and punishment. [ [http://www.sociolegalreview.in/volume2.htm Volume 2 (2006), Socio-Legal Review] ]

The third volume of the journal, released in August 2007, included contributions by Dr. Fiona Kumari Campbell (Griffith University, Australia) and Dr. Narnia Bohler-Muller (Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth), Shelley A. M. Gavigan (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University , Canada) besides contributions from law students.

Editorial and Advisory Board

An editorial board of students from the National Law School of India University is selected through a number of criteria (like an editing test and an essay on a relevant topic) by the Law and Society Committee, which works with a peer-review board consisting of several eminent scholars and practitioners.

The Editorial Board works in consonance with an Advisory Board which includes eminent academics such as Nivedita Menon (University of Delhi), Hilary Charlesworth (Australian National University), Tejaswini Niranjana (Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore), Sanjoy Hazarika (Centre for North-East Studies and Policy Research, New Delhi), Sankaran Krishna, (University of Hawaii at Manoa), Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago), Sitaram Kakarala (Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore) and Sudhir Krishnaswamy (National Law School of India University) and Fiona Kumari Campbell (Disability Studies Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Ragama, Sri Lanka.

Further, Professor S. Japhet [Faculty Profiles, National Law School of India [http://www.nls.ac.in/faculty_japhet.html] ] , Additional Professor and Faculty Coordinator, Centre for Child and the Law and Centre for the Study of Casteism, Communalism and Law of the National Law School of India University is the Faculty Advisor for the Journal.

Editorial Boards

Volume 1, 2005: Abu Mathen George and Abhinav Ashwin [ [http://www.sociolegalreview.in/2005/masthead_vol1.pdf Socio-Legal Review, Volume 1, Masthead] ]

Volume 2, 2006: Atreyee Majumder, Aparna Chandra, Neeti Jain, Vinay Sitapati, Kalyani Ramnath [ [http://www.sociolegalreview.in/2006/masthead_vol2.pdf Socio-Legal Review, Volume 2, Masthead] ]

Volume 3, 2007: Kalyani Ramnath, Damini Srivastava, Sonam Kathuria, Srijoni Sen, Sanhita Ambast

Voume 4, 2008: Sonam Kathuria, Cyril Darlong Diengdoh, Nirupama Pillai, Avni Rastogi, Sindhu Sivakumar (Administrative Member: Rajbhushan Shinde)

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External Links

[http://www.sociolegalreview.in Socio-Legal Review]

[http://www.law.pitt.edu/academics/cile/events/socio-legal Leading scholars in socio-legal research methodology]