About the Faculty of Law
The Faculty of Law, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, is a legal education institution accredited Grade “A+” by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). The Faculty offers B.A. LL.B. (Hons.), LL.B., LL.M., postgraduate diploma programmes in Taxation Practice and Labour Practice, and a Ph.D. programme.
About Vox Legis
Vox Legis, meaning “the voice of the law”, is the annual student-faculty collaborative publication of the Faculty of Law, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.
The publication aims to foster discussion on the evolution of law and society, provide students with a forum for scholarship on contemporary legal and public policy questions, and promote research and writing. Vox Legis is published in both print and online formats here.
About the Call
The Editorial Board of Vox Legis invites submissions for Vox Legis 10.0. The theme for this edition is “A World For All, In The Making: Law, Rights and the Obligations of a Shared Future.”
The call invites students to engage with the theme through legal perspectives using comparative, international and interdisciplinary approaches. Submissions should move beyond describing existing crises or restating familiar commitments. They should examine the patterns and structures that produce and perpetuate such crises, and explore legal, institutional, technological and policy pathways capable of bringing meaningful change.
Theme
The theme examines the relationship between law, rights and the obligations of a shared future in the context of global challenges, including poverty, inequality, environmental protection, technological change and collective responsibility.
The suggested sub-themes include:
- Accessibility, Equality, and Human Dignity
- The Legal Governance of Work, Enterprise, and Economic Justice
- Governing Innovation: Technology, Industry, and the Law
- The Price of a Planet in Transition
- Life on Land and in Water
- Beyond Borders: Governance, Partnerships, and Collective Responsibility
Submissions need not be limited to these sub-themes.
Submission Categories
Submissions are invited from students of any discipline. A submission may be authored by up to two authors.
Eligibility
- Students from any discipline may submit their work.
- A submission may have a maximum of two authors.
- Each co-author must have contributed substantially to the submission and must have consented to its submission.
- The submission must be original, unpublished and not under consideration by any other publication.
Submission Guidelines
All submissions must be made through the official Submission Form. Submissions sent by email will not be considered. The official email address is available only for queries and correspondence.
Manuscripts must be submitted in English and must be between 1,500 and 2,000 words, excluding footnotes. Authors must consistently follow UK spelling conventions.
Each submission must have a clear and relevant title. The manuscript must be uploaded in Microsoft Word format, either .doc or .docx, and the file must be named with the title of the submission.
The manuscript must not contain the author’s name, institution, acknowledgements or any other identifying information. This includes information in the document properties, headers and footers. Author details must be provided only in the Submission Form.
Formatting Guidelines
The body of the manuscript must be in Times New Roman, 12-point font, with 1.5 line spacing and justified alignment. Footnotes must be in Times New Roman, 10-point font, with single line spacing and consecutive numbering.
The manuscript should be organised into clear and logically connected paragraphs, with headings and sub-headings where appropriate. Short quotations should appear within quotation marks. Quotations of 50 words or more should be presented as indented block quotations without quotation marks.
Abbreviations must be written in full at their first occurrence, followed by the abbreviated form in parentheses. Tables, figures and images must be labelled and their sources acknowledged. Authors must obtain the necessary permissions before reproducing copyrighted material.
Citation Guidelines
All sources referred to in the manuscript must be cited in accordance with The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, 21st Edition (2020). Citations must be accurate, consistent and verifiable, with references wherever applicable.
Authors should rely on official sources for legislation, judicial decisions and government publications, and must check that every hyperlink leads to the cited source. For foreign and international sources, and sources not directly covered by the Bluebook, authors should follow the relevant Bluebook rules and tables or use a consistent format suited to the source.
AI and Plagiarism Policy
Every submission must be the author’s own work, with all borrowed material properly acknowledged. The overall AI and Plagiarism Index must remain below 10%.
AI tools cannot be authors or co-authors, and responsibility for a manuscript cannot be transferred to an AI tool. Authors must not submit AI-generated content as human-authored work or misrepresent the extent of AI involvement in a manuscript.
Publication Details
Vox Legis is available as both a print publication and an online publication on its official website.
How to Submit?
Check the submission link at the end of the post!
Deadline
Dec 6, 2026
Contact Details
For queries relating to submissions and publication, write to voxlegis-law@msubaroda.ac.in.