The National Law School Journal (NLSJ) is the flagship journal of the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. It is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that has consistently published original contributions to contemporary legal scholarship on India and the developing world since 1989. The journal’s Editorial Board includes the Vice-Chancellor and members of the faculty. NLSJ invites contributions from academics, practitioners and researchers across legal studies and allied interdisciplinary scholarship.
NLSJ is published twice a year. The journal is indexed in UGC-CARE.
The National Law School of India University, Bengaluru is India’s premiere law school and has pioneered legal education reforms for over three decades.
Current Issue: Volume 18, Issue 1 (2024) Pluralist Agreement and Constitutional Transformation: Special Issue I
Articles
Gender in the Making of the Constitution: Proposals for a Feminist Inquiry into Indian Constitutional History
Achyut Chetan
Quasi-Democratic Imagination: How the Constituent Assembly Envisioned the Parliamentary Opposition
Rupak Kumar
Legislative or Case Note
The Supreme Court and the Challenges for Fiscal Federalism: Mineral Area Development Authority v Steel Authority of India
Sanyukta Chowdhury and Amit Chowdhury
Book Review
Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia by Priyasha Saksena (Oxford University Press 2023)
Aryan Tulsyan and Prabhash Ranjan