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The Edict is a revival of a national collaborative project originally initiated by Abhinandan Malik, Yugank Goyal, Aditi Sachdeva, Ketan Mukhija, Betwa Sharma, and Talha Abdul Rehman. This edition seeks to build an inclusive platform where opportunities for knowledge-sharing and publication are not restricted to a handful of elite law schools. Our objective is to support law students across all backgrounds and institutions.
Through interviews with legal practitioners, we aim to provide practical insights into the profession. By offering substantive feedback on submissions, we strive to help students refine their writing and grow academically.

What we publish

01

Articles and Essays

1,000 – 1,200 words

Analytical and practice-oriented pieces engaging with legal developments, institutional realities, professional experiences, policy debates, and contemporary issues across all areas of law. Submissions may be doctrinal, interdisciplinary, comparative, or reform-focused, and should ideally advance a clear and original argument or perspective.

02

Legislative & Policy Comments

1,500 – 2,000 words

Critical examinations of Bills, Acts, delegated legislation, regulatory developments, or policy frameworks. Submissions may adopt comparative, practical, or normative approaches and should focus on broader legal and societal implications.

03

Case Notes

1,200 – 1,500 words

Concise and accessible analyses of recent judgments, emerging judicial trends, or significant legal developments in India or other jurisdictions. Pieces should focus on practical implications, doctrinal developments, and critical legal analysis without unnecessary technicality.

04

Opinions, commentaries and voices from the field

800 – 1,200 words

Argument-driven commentaries, reflections, and opinion pieces on current legal, academic, professional, institutional, or policy issues. We encourage First-person reflections and experience-based pieces relating to internships, litigation, clerkships, academia, legal education, workplace culture, access to the profession, and other lived realities from students, practitioners, professionals, etc. across the legal field.

05

Book Reviews

1,200 – 1,500 words

Critical reviews of recent literary or academic works relevant to law, public policy, governance, society, or allied disciplines. Reviews should engage substantively with the arguments and broader significance of the work.



Note: While the Editorial Board proactively ensures compliance with the prescribed word limit, minor flexibility may be exercised based on the quality of the submission.

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    Submission guidelines

    • The Edict encourages submissions that make legal discussions more practical, accessible, and relevant to a wider audience. Submissions across all branches of law are welcome, particularly those that engage with real-world implications, institutional challenges, professional realities, and evolving conversations within the legal field.
    • The submission must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere, either online or in print. Co-authorship is permitted.
    • Where applicable, submissions must advance an original and defensible argument and take a clear stand on a narrowly defined issue.
    • Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis throughout the year.
    • All submissions must be sent to submissions@thedict.in. The submission must be made in a Word format (.doc/.docx). The document name should be the title of the submission.
    • The email subject line should follow this format: “Submission for Edict - [Submission Type], ‘[Submission Title]’”
    • The body of the email must include:
      • A brief abstract of the submission
      • A short introduction of the author(s)
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    Formatting Guidelines

    • Citations should preferably be provided through hyperlinks. Endnotes or footnotes should only be used where additional context is necessary.
    • Where hyperlinking is not possible, citations should follow a consistent format, preferably OSCOLA.
    • For Indian case law, contributors may provide accessible links to the judgment (official Supreme Court/High Court websites or reliable databases such as SCC Online are preferred).
    • All factual assertions should be supported with appropriate source links.
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    Editorial Review Policy

    • All submissions will undergo a double-blind peer review process.
    • The Editorial Board reserves absolute discretion regarding acceptance or rejection of submissions.
    • The Editorial Board may make stylistic edits post-acceptance and may also provide conditional acceptance subject to revisions, additions, or deletions.
    • Authors must complete the required revisions within the prescribed timeline.
    • Upon acceptance and publication, copyright shall vest with The EBC (Eastern Book Company), while moral rights remain with the author(s).
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    AI Use Policy

    • Authors must disclose the use of any AI tools at the time of submission.
    • AI tools may only be used for limited assistive purposes such as: grammar and language checks, formatting assistance, citation management or verification, etc.
    • The substantive legal argument, analytical structure, and normative claims must be entirely original and not AI-generated.
    • The maximum AI-generated content index must not exceed 15%. Violation of this policy will result in automatic rejection.
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    Cross-Publication Policy

    • Cross-publication is permitted only with prior written consent of the Editorial Board.
    • In approved cases of cross-publication, the subsequent platform must clearly state: “First published at The Edict (EBC Learning)”

EBC Group — the intellectual giant in Indian legal publishing.

Established in 1942, the EBC Group is the intellectual giant in legal publishing, with offices in several Indian cities and abroad. It was in the 1940s when two brothers, the Late Shri C.L. Malik and his younger brother, the Late Shri P.L. Malik, decided to settle in Lucknow and embark upon a career in law bookselling and publishing. Together they laid the foundations of what today has grown into a group of companies under the banner of EBC.

EBC has traditionally published a wide range of legal commentaries, student texts, law reports, and digests. Today its products include pioneering works in both the print and electronic medium — Supreme Court Cases (SCC), the SC Yearly Digest and Complete Digest, SCC Online, the EBC Webstore, EBC Student Books and Practitioner Commentaries, EBC Reader, the SCC Online Blog, EBC Explorer, and the Practical Lawyer magazine.

This publication's home

EBC Learning — practice-ready skills, on-demand.

At EBC Learning.com we are focused on helping you excel in law school and equip you with practice-ready skills for professional success. Two course formats; one library; built for individuals, institutions, and firms.

Course format · 01

Self-Paced Courses

Pre-recorded lessons, transcripts, and downloadable case digests. Learn on your schedule, with full access to the library.

  • Lifetime access to enrolled courses
  • Verified completion certificate
  • Curated reading lists per module
Course format · 02

Instructor-Led Courses

Live cohorts taught by senior practitioners and faculty — with assignments, feedback, and a small-group format.

  • Live small-group sessions
  • Assessed assignments with written feedback
  • Direct access to the instructor
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Built for individuals — and the institutions training them.
IndividualsSelf-Study
Law SchoolsAcademic
Law FirmsWorkforce
CorporatesL&D
Editorial standards

Every piece is read by an editor before it reaches you.

We respond to every submission within ten working days, even if it is to say no — and we tell you why. Accepted pieces go through a substantive edit before publication: argument-tightening, source-checking, and copy-editing. The author has the final word; the editor is there to make the piece stronger.

Read the submission guidelines →

Our products and platforms

The wider EBC family — what The Edict is built alongside

The Edict sits inside a publishing house that has shaped legal information in India for over eighty years. Here is what the rest of the catalogue looks like.

01 · Flagship report

SCC — Supreme Court Cases

Started 1969

The leading law report of India, with extensive circulation. Cited 67% of the time by the Supreme Court of India and other courts, and by all standard works of law. The standards of legal reporting it set have earned the respect of the entire legal community.

400+
Volumes
67%
SC citation rate
02 · The complete index

SCC Complete Digest

Pioneering case-law digest

EBC has done pioneering work by creating, for the first time, a complete index and digest of the case law of the Indian Supreme Court. The Complete Digest is a 45-volume publication, growing each year — comprehensively covering judgments since the Court's inception in 1950.

45
Volumes
1950+
Coverage from
03 · Legal database

SCC Online

Web Edition · CD-ROM Edition

EBC pioneered legal databases for making law easily accessible in the electronic medium. SCC Online's Web Edition is a comprehensive resource for all legal research — continuously updated, with primary sources extending back to 1754. A study by the Indian Law Institute lists SCC Online as the most preferred database for use by professionals.

1754
Earliest record
#1
Preferred (ILI)
04 · Online store

EBC Webstore

India's largest legal-products store · Since 2005

India's largest online store for legal products, offering real-time information on over 3 lakh-plus titles of law books and related materials in print, electronic, and web format. Operating since 2005.

3L+
Titles available
2005
Operating since
82+
Years of EBC publishing
67%
SC citation rate of SCC
10
Working days to a reply
1942
EBC founded
Counsel

Board of Advisors

Senior practitioners, scholars, and editors who shape the publication’s direction.

Talha Abdul Rahman 01

Talha Abdul Rahman

Advocate-on-Record, Supreme Court of India · Deputy Advocate General, State of Punjab

Yugank Goyal 02

Yugank Goyal

Associate Professor, JSW School of Public Policy, IIM Ahmedabad

Betwa Sharma 03

Betwa Sharma

Managing Editor, Article 14

Ketan Mukhija 04

Ketan Mukhija

Partner (Corporate & M&A) and Co-Head, VC Practice — Kochhar & Co.

Abhinandan Malik 05

Abhinandan Malik

Director, EBC Publishing Pvt. Ltd.

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The Board of Editors

The students reading every submission that crosses the inbox.

Devansh Shrivastava
Editor

Devansh Shrivastava

4th Year · NLSIU Bangalore
Lipi Agarwal
Editor

Lipi Agarwal

3rd Year · NLSIU Bangalore
Veda Vashishth
Editor

Veda Vashisht

4th year · SLS Noida
Udayaditya Banerjee
Editor

Udayaditya Banerjee

4th Year · NLSIU Bangalore
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