A law review by law students, for anyone who takes the law seriously.
The Edict is a publication of EBC Learning — a part of the EBC Group, the intellectual giant in legal publishing in India. We publish long-form analysis, primers, and opinion, written by students at any law school and edited with substantive feedback before anything goes live.
What we publish
Three formats, one editorial standardArticles
Long-form analysis on a doctrinal question, a recent ruling, or a legislative shift. The default form for substantive argument.
Explained
Short primers — the fast-read lane. What a doctrine actually says, what a judgment actually held, with no padding.
Opinion
First-person pieces — argued positions, dispatches from clerkships, and the Student Voices column.
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.
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.
Self-Paced Courses
Featured as a legal video library, with one subscription you can take any number of courses. Build your own path to success — or take one of our curated Learning Paths.
- Beginner courses require no pre-existing knowledge of law
- Intermediate courses build on the basics
- Advanced courses for practitioners and senior students
- Available via individual and institutional subscriptions
Instructor-Led Courses
Collegial learning, in cohorts. We follow the flipped-classroom methodology — students learn through live training classes conducted via video conferencing.
- Run in cohorts with fixed start and end dates
- Some courses include unlimited access to the full Self-Paced library
- Live sessions via video conferencing
- Separate registration required for each cohort
Institutional subscribers have access to an admin panel — administrators create and assign playlists of course videos, and monitor student progress.
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 alongsideThe 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.
SCC — Supreme Court Cases
Started 1969The leading law report of India, with extensive circulation. Cited 67%* of the times by the Supreme Court of India and other courts, and by all standard works of law. Other apex courts — the House of Lords, the South African Constitutional Court, the Pakistan and Bangladesh Supreme Courts, the Malaysian and Sri Lankan Supreme Courts — also cite it. The standards of legal reporting it set have earned the respect of the entire legal community.
*Source: Legalex Study.
SCC Complete Digest
Pioneering case-law digestEBC 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. It comprehensively covers the digest of judgments delivered by the Supreme Court since its inception in 1950 to date.
SCC Online
Web Edition · CD Rom EditionUsing the latest technology, EBC pioneered legal databases for making law easily accessible in the electronic medium. SCC Online® Web Edition is a comprehensive resource for all legal research — continuously updated databases extending back to 1754. Indian primary sources (Supreme Court, High Courts, Tribunals) and overseas sources (UK, USA, Canada, Singapore, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and others) are all covered. A study by the Indian Law Institute lists SCC Online as the most preferred database for use by professionals.
EBC Webstore
India's largest legal-products store · Since 2005India'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, the Webstore offers Legal Commentaries, Student Texts, Bare Acts, Digests, Books, Journals, eBooks, eProducts, and publications across fields allied to law.
EBC Reader
iOS · Android · DesktopAn app that lets you read eBooks across formats — phones (iOS and Android), tablets, and laptops/desktops. Browse dynamically, highlight, copy, and search. Buy and download titles, then read on the go: the entire legal library in your pocket. References in the books connect seamlessly to SCC Online wherever access to primary material is required.
The Practical Lawyer
House journal · MonthlyA house journal providing the latest information on developments in the legal world, with a monthly digest of Supreme Court case-law. Practical, current, and useful — written for the practitioner who needs to stay current without sifting through everything that gets reported.
SCC Online Blog
Current legal commentaryCurrent information and analysis on legal subjects. Posts on the blog connect seamlessly to SCC Online for primary materials when required. The blog is now viewed over 1,25,000 times every month — a measure of how the legal community is reading short-form analysis online.
The Board of Editors
Who reads what comes inWrite for The Edict.
We accept submissions from law students at any institution in India or abroad. Send us your work — we will read it, and we will reply.