About the Journal
About the journal
The International Journal of Legal Research and Development began in 2018 as an online law journal from Inventive International Publishers. Between 2018 and 2021 it published four volumes, mostly the work of law students and young researchers from across India. Publication paused after 2021. The journal resumed with Volume 5 in , and from that volume it appears once a month.
IJLRD exists to give careful early-career writing on law a proper home. A first research paper deserves the same things a senior scholar’s paper receives: an honest review, an editor who reads it closely, and a permanent, citable place in a journal with an ISSN. The journal keeps its fee low so that cost is not the reason a good student paper goes unpublished.
Publisher. IJLRD is owned and published by Inventive International Publishers, . The publisher is responsible for the journal’s website, production and finances. Decisions on what to publish belong to the editors alone, and payment has no part in them.
Open access. Every article is free to read from the day it is published. Articles carry the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), and authors keep their copyright.
Archive. The issues published from 2018 to 2021 have been restored to this website from the journal’s earlier records, and they are listed under Archive.
Aims and scope
IJLRD publishes original work on law and its relationship with society, the economy, technology and governance. The journal welcomes papers on:
- constitutional and administrative law;
- criminal law, criminology and criminal justice;
- corporate, commercial, competition and insolvency law;
- intellectual property and technology law, including data protection and artificial intelligence;
- human rights, gender and the law, and the rights of children;
- environmental and energy law;
- international law, international trade and investment law;
- family law, personal laws and succession;
- labour and employment law;
- taxation and public finance;
- alternative dispute resolution;
- legal history, jurisprudence and legal education.
Interdisciplinary papers that draw on economics, political science, sociology or management are welcome when the legal question is at their centre.
Types of contribution
| Type | Length (words, including footnotes) |
|---|---|
| Research article | 4,000 to 10,000 |
| Short article | 2,500 to 4,000 |
| Case comment | 1,500 to 3,500 |
| Legislative note or policy brief | 1,500 to 3,500 |
| Book review | 1,000 to 2,000 |