About the Journal
Journal of Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence (JCLJ)
ISSN: 2583-388X
Scientific Journal Impact Factor (SJIF): 4.635
Index Copernicus (ICV) 2024 = 59.92
DOI- 10.37591/JCLJ
Editor-in-Chief
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Journal’s Summary
The Constitutional Law is a paramount law of the land. The base of Constitutional Law is its philosophy, called ‘Constitutional Jurisprudence’. Constitutional Law determines the fundamental rights of citizens and the obligations of ‘the State’. While discharging the functions under the Constitution, the State is expected to ensure protection of its provisions and philosophy.
In the present contexts, many issues are being emerged along with pre-existing Constitutional issues. The academia is morally responsible and responsive to synthesize these issues. It's a biannual journal (frequency January-June and July-December), started in 2018.
Focus & Scope
- Constitutional Jurisprudence and Legal Theory: Research on constitutionalism, constitutional interpretation, legal reasoning, natural law, analytical and sociological jurisprudence, legal institutions, rule of law, and the relationship between law, society, and the State.
- Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Freedoms: Studies on equality, non-discrimination, freedom of speech and expression, association, assembly, movement, residence, profession, religious freedom, cultural and educational rights, privacy, dignity, and other constitutionally protected freedoms.
- Constitutional Remedies and Judicial Review: Research on writ jurisdiction, constitutional remedies, judicial review, constitutional challenges to legislation and executive action, standards of review, enforceability of rights, and the role of courts in protecting constitutional governance.
- Basic Structure and Constitutional Amendments: Studies on constitutional amendment powers, the basic structure doctrine, limits on constituent power, constitutional identity, amendment jurisprudence, and judicial scrutiny of constitutional changes.
- Directive Principles and Welfare State: Research on the constitutional significance and implementation of Directive Principles of State Policy, social and economic welfare, public policy, distributive justice, state responsibility, and the evolving role of the welfare state.
- Social Justice, Gender Justice, and Minority Rights: Studies on affirmative action, reservation, caste discrimination, gender equality, LGBTQ+ rights, minority protections, education, healthcare, social inclusion, and constitutional responses to structural disadvantage.
- Legislature, Executive, and Constitutional Governance: Research on legislative powers, executive authority, delegated legislation, accountability, separation of powers, checks and balances, parliamentary practices, constitutional conventions, and institutional relationships among organs of government.
- Judicial Independence and Constitutional Adjudication: Studies on judicial independence, appointments, accountability, judicial activism, judicial restraint, constitutional interpretation, reservation in the judiciary, and the institutional role of courts in a constitutional democracy.
- Federalism and Centre–State Relations: Research on legislative and administrative relations between different levels of government, fiscal federalism, intergovernmental disputes, emergency powers, cooperative and competitive federalism, and constitutional distribution of powers.
- Constitutional Democracy and Electoral Governance: Studies on popular sovereignty, representative democracy, elections, political participation, electoral reform, majority rule, minority rights, political accountability, campaign regulation, and constitutional safeguards against arbitrary governance.
- Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Politics: Research on freedom of religion, secularism, religious institutions, personal laws, state regulation of religion, constitutional morality, religious politics, and tensions between religious freedom and other fundamental rights.
- Local Self-Government and Decentralization: Studies on the constitutional status, powers, finances, accountability, and functioning of Panchayats, municipalities, urban local bodies, and other institutions of decentralized governance.
- Constitutional Dimensions of Public Policy: Research on constitutional issues arising in education, public health, environmental protection, social security, migration, digital governance, economic policy, and other areas of public administration and welfare.
- Human Rights and Constitutional Justice: Studies on the relationship between constitutional rights and human rights, including access to justice, refugee and migrant rights, child rights, disability rights, custodial protections, and constitutional safeguards for vulnerable communities.
- Technology, Privacy, and Emerging Constitutional Rights: Research on data protection, surveillance, artificial intelligence, digital identity, internet access, online expression, algorithmic governance, biometric systems, and emerging constitutional questions created by technological change.
- Comparative Constitutional Law: Comparative research on constitutions, constitutional courts, rights adjudication, federal structures, separation of powers, amendment processes, democratic institutions, and constitutional developments across jurisdictions.
- Indian Constitutional Law and Contemporary Developments: Research on the Constitution of India, Supreme Court and High Court jurisprudence, constitutional amendments, governance reforms, federal relations, fundamental rights, Directive Principles, and contemporary constitutional controversies. Comparative and interdisciplinary studies are welcome where constitutional law or jurisprudence forms the central scholarly contribution.
Readership: Graduate/ Postgraduate students, Research Scholars, Faculties, Industrialists, Independent Professionals, Government institutions
Indexing: The Journal is indexed in Google Scholar, Cross-ref, LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, SJIF, ASI
Submission of Paper:
All contributions to the journal are rigorously refereed and are selected on the basis of quality and originality of the work. The journal publishes the most significant new research papers or any other original contribution in the form of reviews and reports on new concepts in all areas pertaining to its focus and scope, thus ensuring its scientific priority and significance.
Manuscripts are invited from academicians, students, research scholars, industrialists, independent professionals and faculties for publication consideration.
Papers are accepted for editorial consideration through email lawjournals@celnet.in/ cle@celnet.in
Subject: Constitution, Law, Jurisprudence
Plagiarism: All the articles will be checked through Plagiarism Software before publication.
Abbreviation: JCLJ
Frequency: Two issues per year
Peer Reviewed Policy:
Peer review is the most important part of the scientific publication process. Peer review is basically the process of engaging experts to review the articles submitted for publication in journals, this is done in order to validate the research and to enhance the quality of the articles that are published in the journal.
The peer review process is actually a demarcating line that decides what a research is and what is merely a hypothesis. This process screens the articles for their originality or work, their relevance to the previously published work and does the work meet the required standard so as to be published as a research article. The bottom line to conduct a peer review is to eliminate the possibility that science is just another opinion.
Basic design of a peer review process:
1) The process begins with the submission of article to the journal
2) The first step begins as the editor of the journal checks if the article falls under the focus and scope of the journal. If the article does not fall under the focus and scope of the journal it is rejected with feedback and necessary changes to the author, if the article do fall under the focus and scope of the journal it is forwarded to the next step of review.
3) Here the reviewer checks for the originality, validity, significance, theory , evidence and other parameters based on the guidelines of the editors and yardsticks to measure the quality of the article.
4) Reviewer then make necessary comments and send the paper back to the editorial board, a reviewer may accept the paper as it is, reject or suggest changes in the manuscript, this information is conveyed to the authors
5) Editor of the journal then make final decision to publish the article based on the reviewers comments. And finalize the time frame for publishing the article.
6) Finally the accepted articles appear in the publication.
For further details on the publishing process and guidelines that an author and editor should follow, and to know more about the yardstick of the reviewers we would suggest you to go through the Author and Editors Guidelines.
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