LAW MANTRA PRESENTS:- Call for Papers on “Consumer Protection”

The Law Mantra Law journal (ISSN 2321 6417) is a monthly academic journal, published online, that seeks to provide an interactive forum for the publication of articles in the field of Law. The Journal is currently soliciting submissions for Volume I, Issue 10, which will be published in June 2014. The submission deadline for Volume I, Issue 10 is May 30, 2014. We welcome submissions from academicians, practitioners, students, researchers and experts from within the legal community. We have a strong preference for articles that assert and defend a well-reasoned position.

It is aimed at institutionalizing and channelling the analytical and incisive articles of students towards value addition and developing inherent potentials of legal fraternity.

About Law Mantra

Law Mantra is an Online Journal and Web Portal, under the chief patron of Dr. Hon. Justice Malimath, former Chief Justice Karnataka and Kerala High Court, Dr. Prof. Gurjeet Singh, Vice-Chancellor N.L.U.J.A Assam , Prof.(Dr.) Faizan Mustaffa, V.C NALSAR Hyderabad, and other luminaries from the legal fraternity. Law Mantra is running for the purpose of enhancing legal academics and legal awareness in the society and in the practice of the same.  Law mantra also has an ISSN (2321-6417) journal which tries to disseminate knowledge and research in various aspects of law. This website offers legal professional and legal aspirants to bring forward their views and ideas through high level of research and get acknowledged in front of masses. This also includes blog writing, Articles, essay, case notes and others literary works.

The Themes for Call for Paper is “Consumer Protection Law”

Write us editor@lawmantra.co.in  

About The Competition: The competition basically has the purpose to bring out original and concrete views of the mass- to the mass. In an essay, we look forward to a detail analysis of the status quo and putting forward suggestions that would serve as an instrument for change to the problems that persist.

The Paper submitted will be used to create modules for free awareness campaigns.

Theme: “Consumer Protection Law”

The submissions may be in the form of articles, notes, comments, book reviews on the issues raised.

All submissions must be made in accordance with the submission guidelines of the editorial board given below:

We welcome submissions under the following categories, with word limits:

Submission Guidelines:

TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS

• Articles are lengthy publications that provide sustained treatment of important topics and ideas in the law.

Word Count – 4000 words (including footnotes).

• Essays are long write-ups and explore new arenas in the field of the topic that the author wishes to deal with.

Word Count – 3000 words (including footnotes).

• Book Reviews tackle new publications or neglected topics in the law. These are relatively short pieces of work that tend to analyse, comment and evaluate any law related book published recently.

Word Count – 1500 words (including footnotes).

• Case/Legislative Comments are short pieces which succinctly tackle interesting issues and puzzles in the law, often a critique on recent judicial pronouncements.

Word Count – 3000 words (including footnotes).

 

WRITING GUIDELINES:

 All Entries must be typewritten in the font Times New Roman, font size 12, 1.5 line spacing and justified alignment.

 The Citations must be typewritten in the font Times New Roman, font size 10, 1 line spacing and justified alignment.

 Citation style must adhere to one uniform system of citation. References must be footnoted in Blue book 19th edition. All references must be cited in simple text. No formatting is required for the citations.

Submissions received to the Law Mantra Journal reviewed for following reasons

Scope and relevance for article: The article must be based on contemporary legal issues. Content of article must be suitable for readers-Students, Legal Professions, Academicians.

Language and Quality: Language must be formal and clear, adhering the submissions guidelines of journal.

Copyright Violation: To ensure that, the submissions are not in violation of copyrights laws. Authors are required to obtain written permission for the use of any copyrighted material in the manuscript and must communicate the same journal.

PLAGIARISM CHECK:

The authors are required to take special care in citing all the sources that they will refer to in their submissions.

The submission shouldn’t have been published somewhere else or submitted for consideration for publication somewhere else.

All the submissions will be subjected to strict plagiarism checks.

MODE OF SUBMISSION:

Submissions should be in electronic form (.doc, .docx).

The submissions are to be addressed to The Editorial Board, Law Mantra Journal at journal@lawmantra.co.in

Note:-Selected papers will be published with I.S.S.N.

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Selected full paper should reach the convener, on or before 30^th May 2014.

For further details or regarding this you may call on 08255090897

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One Day Seminar On “Economic Implications of National Food Security Act” By GNLU, 2014 [9th August]

The GNLU Centre for Food Security and Agro Economy (GCFSAE) at Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar has planned to organize One-day Conference on “Economic Implications of National Food Security Act”. 

Date:- August 9, 2014

Where:- GNLU Campus

When:- 10:00 am onwards. 

The Conference would spread out in three disparate themes sessions, namely;

> “Economic analysis of the WTO Bali round decision”, 

> “Economic implications of National Food Security Act”; and 

>“India’s tryst with WTO with special reference to agricultural subsidies”

 Brochure 

For More Details Contact:- 

Prabhansu Gupta

Contact No. +919714343576

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International Conference On Strengthening Climate Justice Initiatives: Livelihood Challenges At Local Level With A Focus On Farmers

Sub theme: Impact of climate change on farmers and sustainable livelihood/ Rules-regulation and laws related agriculture and environment & its implementation / International experiences/ Sharing of experiences of Justice and In-Justice related farmers and agriculture / Existing safety net provisions and its implementation / Existing Government Support Schemes / Climate Smart Agriculture

Abstract Submission: July 15, 2014 • Acceptance of Research Paper: August 01, 2014

Final Paper Submission: September 15, 2014

Contact Details: director.il@nirmauni.ac.in, drkiritshelat@gmail.com/ website: www.climatesmartagd.org

Registration Dates: last date 15. October, 2014 (Registration form available on website)

Conference Dates & Venue: November 8-9, 2014 / Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India

Organizers

National Council for Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Public Leadership (NCCSD),

Website: www.nccsdindia.orq / 

Nirma Institute of Law, Ahmedabad (NIRMA), 

Website: www.nirmauniv.ac.in.

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FOOD "OVER" SECURITY BY ISRAEL- A CRITIC.

On 19th March 2014, the Parliament of Israel passed the ‘ADVANCEMENT OF COMPETITION IN THE FOOD SECTOR LAW 2014’. The legislative history to this law can be traced to the mass protests that took place on the streets of Israel due to an excessively high cost of living borne by the citizens.

The objective of the Act was simple, increase competitiveness in the food sector so that the industry firms are forced to reduce their prices to capture a greater market share or earn higher revenue than their counterparts.

Out of all the provisions, most of which have been criticized by various commentators, the one that caught the authors attention the most was the commissioner’s wide powers pertaining to retailers’ operations in various geographic catchment areas.

The law provides that for each branch of a large retailer, the commissioner can attempt to increase competition. This will be achieved by defining a geographic catchment area and identifying the competitors in each catchment area. A notification, after such identification, will be sent to any of the retailers who have more than 30% or 50% share in a relevant catchment area. Now if this retailer chooses to expand by for example opening a new branch in that location, he will require the commissioner's approval. The ground, whether the expansion is likely to pose any danger to competition, upon which this approval be will be denied leads to an appraisal of the existing market scenario from the current players or firms market shares to their revenues and future established growth plans. But will this outcome they are planning to prejudge necessarily be what the retailer can deliver, considering that this expansion plan of the large retailer (the law aims to target large retailers) if not intervened or interfered with by the commissioner will definitely be countered by the other players and thereby lead to more competition and less prices.

The legislation through it’s over protective powers will rather bring the competition down. It will serve as a disincentive for prospective and existing large retailers & thereby suppliers. Fundamentally, if this was something enacted in India, it would be violative of one’s right to practice any trade or business, not that it stands Israel’s constitutionality either.

The above is just one of the ways in which the commissioner has been given powers to increase competition. Provisions stipulating recommendations such as ceasing of operations in a certain store or selling of that store to a third party can be made by the commissioner to the Antitrust Tribunal against retailers whose share in a catchment area are more than 50% and operates at least three stores in that area.

The idea of specifically regulating competition within a sector, in the present case being the food sector, is commendable and has been used by the government of UK too through Ofgem, Ofwat and Ofcom. A similar scheme of legislation can, according to me help in curbing inflation to some extent in India. The Indian law can along with the role, operations and M&A activities of the large retailers and suppliers can also make provisions pertaining to storage, distribution, hoarding etc. practices as a consolidated law dealing specifically with the food sector. The Indian Food Sector needs a re-look anyway.

About The Author:-

Gehna Banga is a 3rd year student pursuing BBA-LL.B (Hons.) at IBS, Hyderabad. She is always busy eyeing for something new and the recent area of interest has been economic policy matters.

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