An online international conference on how law is coping with a decade of rapid change, across constitutional, criminal, corporate, technology, environmental and international law.
The decade we are in has rewritten the questions law has to answer. Artificial intelligence now decides who is offered a loan and who is recommended for bail. Personal data is both the currency of the economy and the subject of a new statute. Three new criminal codes have replaced the ones the country ran on for more than a century. Speech, money, work and harm have moved substantially online, and doctrines built for an earlier world are being stretched to cover them.
This conference asks how law is holding up, and where it is not. It invites work that engages a live problem in any field, from constitutional and criminal law to corporate, technology, environmental and international law, and that says something useful about how rights, regulation and justice should function in a world changing faster than the statute book. Critical work is as welcome as doctrinal work. What we are looking for is an argument, grounded in the law and the facts, that a reader will be glad to have read.
The conference is open to academicians, research scholars, postgraduate and undergraduate students, legal practitioners, judicial officers and independent researchers, from India and abroad. A paper may be written by up to two authors, and a single registration and a single publication charge cover both of them. There is no bar on the number of submissions from a single institution.
The tracks listed on this page are indicative rather than exhaustive. A paper on any contemporary question of law and its intersection with technology, governance and society is welcome, and the open track exists precisely for work that does not sit neatly under a heading. Comparative and international perspectives are encouraged.
Registration is charged once an abstract is accepted, and confirms the author's place to present. The rates are shown alongside: ₹700 for students and research scholars, ₹1,000 for academicians, professionals and practitioners, and USD 30 for foreign delegates. Those who wish only to attend, without presenting, register at ₹400. Registration includes participation in the full programme and an e-certificate.
Accepted papers are published in an edited volume bearing an ISBN, with a CrossRef DOI assigned to each chapter so it can be cited and found. Publication is optional and open to every accepted paper, on a single charge of ₹1,500, the same for everyone, together with a signed copyright form. The charge includes a printed copy of the book and a hard copy of the certificate, posted to the author. There is no separate per-page or processing fee.
Every presenting author receives an e-certificate of presentation. Authors whose papers are published in the volume receive, in addition, a printed certificate posted with their copy of the book. Those attending receive an e-certificate of participation.
The abstract is read by the editorial committee. The full paper is read by subject reviewers in a double-blind process, and is accepted for the conference and the volume only on their recommendation. Payment of the registration or the publication charge does not, on its own, secure acceptance of a paper.
Questions about submission, registration or publication may be sent to conference@academyclrs.org.
