i agree with some of the points esp why are science papers being published through journal of a law school. I read few papers and did not find any connection to regulations etc. Was proper peer reviewing implemented?

Sniper is right about a whole set of things, but let me disagree wit ha few of his observations and add a few more.

1. A basic issue that I see is how the editors seems to have a lack of understanding about what is an inter-disciplinary approach (thats one of the claims made below by someone at 7.1.1). Just having some articles from scientists and a few others from lawyers does not make it inter-disciplinary. To call it inter-disciplinary, there must be some amalgamation of disciplines - the lawyer and the scientists must be able to work together, crossing their disciplinary boundaries to arrive at a solution to some research problem. that is definitely lacking here. we see stand alone articles about the law and science, without any reflection about amalgamation of ideas. Lets take the papers on reduction in pollution or concentration of pollutants (thats what most of the papers are about). These papers tell us that the lock down has had an effect - now what does that mean for the law or lawyers or regulators? thats something that needs to be explored jointly by scientists and lawyers - at least thats required to call it baseline interdisciplinary.

2. even the hard science papers are more in the nature of reporting facts (that pollution has been observed to be reduced etc.). That is just a report of observations - may be a magazine or a newspaper can publish it. it becomes academic worthy only when the authors can make some more contribution -some amount of theorising around it. The papers published in this issue does not contribute to the inter-section of law and policy. the only thing that has intersected are a handful of people who knew each other well finding an opportunity to individually write some papers and publish it in the same platform. There is nothing inter-disciplinary or trans-disciplinary going on here.

3. A large number of people co-authoring a paper is quite common in the hard sciences. this is because they will credit everyone who was involved in the project or experiment. Science papers are also quite short at times - just a few pages. So on the small number of pages and large number of authors count, I am not willing to draw any adverse conclusions per se. However, a large number of papers from the same authors in a same volume does not look good. its really suspicious. Another count of suspicion is that Mr. Abhijit Mitra has co-authored papers that spread across many disciplines - Labour, economics and pollution control (across river, water and land). Now that is quite some sweep. good scholars tend to focus on a small area of work and go deep in that. Mr. Mitra seems to have cut across so many domains of knowledge and published in all of them - generally that is taken as an indication of either (1) lack of quality' or (2) lack of depth; or (3) getting your students to add your name to their work I don't know which of these is the driving force here. That being said, it is still possible that Mr. Mitra happens to be a genius with expertise in all these domains of knowledge - but bad luck or some other unknown factors has kept up tied up in a place like techno India university (what is that?).

4. The centre thats publishing this seems to do quite a lot - I mean regulatory studies, public policy and governance. thats an interesting range of things to pursue. But for any meaningful study of these things, one needs more economists, social scientists and policy professionals. a quick look at the centre tells me that majority of the people who work there are lawyers with a handful of relatively junior social scientists and not a single policy professional. The CV of the coordinator and research follow, Mr. Shambhu does not demonstrate any previous work in policy, regulation or governance. The other Research Fellow, Dr. Jayanta seems to be more impressive - with at least some degree of policy exposure, at least in IP. The rest are really junior chaps with limited work experience. I wonder how these set of people (except may be Dr. Jayanta to some extent) can advance any conversation on something as complex as the intersection of law and policy.

5. the journal looks like a half-baked shabby attempt. it actually puts NUJS in a poor light for such poor quality of work.this could have been legitimately published as a magazine though. no harm in doing that. Also is techno India university some sort of big thing (I had not heard of it before - despite having lived and world in India in all my life) - I mean, NUJS is a premier institution in the field of law. is Techno India fit enough to collaborate with NUJS?

Comparing Springer science journals with this. Wah!

Wow! Please read even one of the papers. The journal is not prestigious. It, in the current form, can serve as guide for no one (hopefully).

It is sad to see that an interdisciplinary journal based on policy is being equated with another law journal. Quite certainly an act not based on prudence.
Undoubtedly these discussions have revealed the huge hatred in the mind of people in and around NUJS pushed by various faculty insisted lobby...which obviously stand as an impediment in its development and may lead to its extinction.
It is so sad to state that none of the nujs journals are scopus indexed or even UGC care listed. I don’t undermine NUJS Law Review however. And I wish one day would be taken over by Springer as in the case of the prestigious Journal of JLS.

When would these people go beyond such discussions and look into their respective contributions, I think time would tell.
May be a stringent academic audit would unveil them from this anonymising behaviour.

Please dont conflate the two journals even if both are from NUJS. NUJS Law Review tries to carry well curated legal articles so maybe submit your findings in some thematic journal. Check the NUJSLR content before trolling and don't disregard the efforts of the involved students based on the scholarship that some non teaching staff have endorsed.

Matter enough for you to reply!

Haven't seen any in this thread. Many from the other side seem to be here though. And what's Chinese Community Party? Seems a rather wild event!

Family manifesto. Like the Ramayan. Maybe there would be Mandirs and statues built soon.

And the even more beloved PM and his Home Minister. I have heard that those two actually tend to kill critics. The one you mentioned probably does so too. So let's all get our last wills and testaments ready in case the IT Cells from both sides hack LI database for the comments.

nice try there.- to convert criticism of a shoddy journal, which is not run by any NUJS faculty or students as an attack against NUJS. People are expressing their dismay, concern and complete lack of quality control for something that has come out of NUJS.

the students, the placement and the alumni are all great and it should remain great. thats the reason why we are concerned when this sort of nonsense comes out of it.

Not commenting on other matters, some of which are straightforward political and/or lack relevance in the context of the current discussion, but at NUJS, students have the highest level of autonomy of all NLUs. Even the students who hate the admin for multiple reasons, like I do, agree with that. In no other university do students get to decide exam schedules, submission dates, extensions of all sorts, student programmes, a sizable part of the budget and even some of the medal recipients and so on. Here all such matters are not only decided with student consultations, but students are the one who decide those to begin with and admin just puts the seal of approval on that. I am not commenting on whether that's a good or bad thing, although it clearly allows the admin to shirk its duties, leaving the onus of running the university at least in part to the students, which the latter certainly did not sign up for. So the point about students being treated as doormats is a completely misleading and false piece of info. I certainly have not seen anything like that in the past 5 years. I say this only for the benefit of those who are outsiders and might have thought otherwise from Comment 42. The insiders who are commenting here are all very much aware of it, whether they admit or not depending on their own agendas.
Of course, in matters that are under the spotlight like the VC selection, so far the students' demands have not been formally acknowledged or acted upon, but that's because of the fact that the decision-makers in the EC have their own agendas more than for anything else and it is going to take a monumental change in the Indian legal education sector before all the stakeholders' opinions are considered before making such decisions. What they fail to realise of course is that students would not have to keep making suggestions or interventions if only they do their job properly and make the best possible decisions for the university.

Not to mention that there are several private law colleges at present doing better than several of the newer NLUs anyway. Just the NLU tag doesn't make any difference. After the first 8 NLUs or so, one may as well choose Symbiosis, KIIT, ILS, etc. Not going to make much of a difference.

Understandable! But this pre conceived notions of NLU students will sustain for time immemorial; that is wrong. They are too judgmental and we all have the tendency to blindly follow western methodologies without proper application of rational mind.
The point is, lets not promote a straightjacket idea of foreign degrees versus Indian degrees. A faculty member’s teaching and research caliber varies from person to person. Plus point is some of the top NLUs and top pvt law schools provide that exposure which you wont find in Law dept of traditional institutions. Not even online databases to research but still the sincere students excel. So lets stop being judgmental and work together to lift the standard of legal education in India. So that foreign nationals come down to us and take pride of our law schools being their alma meter. May be someday! It will...

If the truth hurts you, that can't be helped. It is immaterial where he might have taught before and for how long. In any case, a quick look at his CV reveals that those have not been at any prestigious Indian university at least. He's not been hired as a faculty member, so his teaching experience or ability haven't been a concern during that process, nor has he competed with other teaching candidates for that position. The government has installed him at the centre. He's teaching a course at NUJS, but again for that, there's been no formal recruitment procedure, unlike that undergone by even some of the other guest faculties. If you have got any factual information to counter any of this, please reveal the same, instead of massaging your fragile ego.

So what if he has 10+ years of experience? He's still a junior faculty insofar as this institution is concerned, till the point he's actually recruited here in a teaching position abiding by all the university regulations and through proper advertisement. The fact that LI isn't acting on your argument should give you a clue about its invalidity. Nothing wrong being a junior faculty. Why is it hurting your ego? Are you him commenting under a pseudonym? He at present is less than an Assistant Professor with tenure insofar as NUJS is concerned.