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12 NUJS L. Rev. [i] (2019)

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12 NUJS  L. Rev. 1 (2019)


                                 Editorial Note


              The  publication of the 12' Volume of the NUJS  Law  Review  represents the
dedication  and  hard  work  of  the different generations of  students, professors, and
practitioners. From this year onwards, the Editorial Board and other members of the journal
shall work under the leadership of the new Editor-in-Chief - Professor N. K. Chakrabarti, the
new  vice chancellor of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences. Professor
Chakrabarti has published seven books and authored more than seventy articles and research
papers in national and international journals. Moreover, he had also been the director of the
Kalinga   Institute of Industrial Technology   (KIIT)  University's School  of  Law   in
Bhubaneshwar   for nearly one decade.  The newly  selected Editorial Board and the other
members  of the journal look forward to working under his mentorship.

              We  would  also like to thank Professor M. P. Singh, the founder of the NUJS
Law  Review,  for his continued guidance and motivation to the Editorial Board till date, as
well as his contribution to the journal. The Law Review has been at the forefront of legal
scholarship for more than a decade now, attempting to shape discussions on the most topical
and relevant topics. In this regard, we are happy to share with you that the NUJS Law Review
recently appeared in the top position in the initiative undertaken by SCC Online of ranking
the top ten law journals based on the number of times they are accessed on SCC Online in a
calendar month, in the first month of this initiative.

              Apart from  printing the journal onto paper, the student editors and members
have  been running the entire process, including soliciting and selecting and editing articles
for publication and formatting them as per the NUJS Law  Review  Citation Standard. Their
untiring efforts and commitment to the journal has led to the journal being able to maintain its
quarterly nature while providing exceptional articles in its twelfth year of publication. This
issue as well presents some ground-breaking scholarship by established authors and emerging
voices in the legal academia on issues of national significance.

              Professor Dipika  Jain's article titled 'Time to rethink Criminalisation of
Abortion?  Towards a Gender  Justice Approach' argues for the decriminalisation of abortions
in order to entitle complete autonomy to women   over their health. She draws these rights
from  the fundamental  rights of bodily  autonomy  and  integrity, further illustrating the
inclusion of the right to reproductive and decisional autonomy under such fundamental rights.
This article scrutinises the two primary impediments of access to safe abortion services -
first, third-party authorisation requirements; and second, the law against sex-determination of
foetuses. The author demonstrates how these barriers create an undesirable delay in accessing
abortions and  cause  a chilling effect on the medical practitioners. After outlining the
inadequacy  in the legal dimensions with respect to abortions, the author argues for an urgent
need  to decriminalise abortions and  reform  the laws  after consulting all the relevant
stakeholders.

              In 'Determination of Environmental Compensation:  The  Art of Living Case',
authors Professor Rosencranz  and Raghuveer  Nath  exhibit critical argumentation over the
absence of an effective framework to determine compensation in environmental matters. The
authors explore the various reasons that inhibit the National Green Tribunal ('NGT') from
doing  so - first, NGT's erroneous trend of imposing compensation  at five percent of the


January-March,   2019


NUJS  Law  Review

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