INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON

“VICTIM COMPENSATION AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND NATIONAL BILL DRAFTING COMPETITION ON VICTIM COMPENSATION, 2015”

Organized by:

Centre for Advanced Studies in Human Rights (CASIHR), RGNUL Punjab

In collaboration with Institute of Correctional Administration, Chandigarh (23rd November, 2015)

NATIONAL BILL DRAFTING COMPETITION:

A National Bill Drafting Competition shall be organized wherein participants will be required to Draft a Bill on Victim Compensation.

All the draft Bills must contain the particulars of the author indicating his email id, contact number and address for correspondence.

Co-Authorship upto a maximum of two authors is allowed.

Word Limit for the Bill: 4000-5000 words (excluding footnotes).

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Conference papers are invited from the academicians, practitioners, researchers, scholars and students on the issues related to the themes. It is also proposed that the selected papers will be published in the form of an edited book carrying an ISBN No.

Word limit for Abstract: 300–350 words

A paper cannot have more than two co-authors.

Word Limit for papers: 4000 words (excluding footnotes).

SUB THEMES:

 Compensating and Rehabilitating Rape Victims

 Legislative Framework, Role of Judiciary and NGO’s

 Plea Bargaining

 Restorative Justice and Weaker Sections

 Rights of Victims vis-à-vis offenders

 Punishments and Restorative Justice

 Constitutional Approach to Rehabilitation and Restoration

 International Perspective to Victim Compensation

These sub-themes are not exhaustive.

FORMAT GUIDELINES:

The format is Times New Roman, Font Size 12, 1.5 line spacing, on an A4 sheet with 1” margin on all sides, to be sent in .doc/.docx format.

A uniform style of citation must be strictly adhered to while submitting the paper.

REGISTRATION DETAILS:

The Registration fee for the Seminar is Rs. 1000/-, (separately for author and co-author) for students.

Registration fee of Rs 1500 is for Academicians/Lawyers/Research Scholars.

The Registration Fee for the Bill Drafting Competition is Rs 500/- for Participants.

All the draft Bills/abstracts/papers must contain the particulars of the author indicating his email id, contact number and address for correspondence.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Last Date of Submission of Abstract: 10th October 2015

Full Paper Submission (Soft Copy) (For Consideration for Publication in the ISBN Book): 10th November 2015

Submission of Draft Bill: 15th October, 2015

Last Date of Registration and Online Payment of Registration: 10th October 2015

The abstracts and paper/ bill should be sent to: (casihr[at-the-rate-of]rgnul[dot]ac.in.

) For detailed information, please visit:

Contact Details:

Ms. Srishti Bharti Ph. +91 9779717000

(STUDENT CO-ORDINATOR)