Jindal Global Law School-Insolvency Law Working Paper Series (JGILS) is conceptualized to generate discourse through open source working papers and discussions. 

In its specific area and interconnections, JGILS is engineered to enable the advancement of literature in insolvency and bankruptcy and increase dialogue between policy, theory, implementation and research; locally and globally. 

The JGILS Editorial Board will set the standard for content and submissions will be on a bi-annual basis. All accepted working papers  are available for access and reading.

All inquiries can be directed to ilwps@jgu.edu.in

Akshaya Kamalnath

Akshaya Kamalnath is a senior lecturer at the ANU College of Law. She has held lecturer positions at AUT in New Zealand, and Deakin University. She has law degrees from New York University (LLM), Deakin University (PhD), and NALSAR India (BA.LLB(Hons)). Akshaya’s research and teaching interests focus on the broad themes of corporate law, corporate governance, corporations and society, and corporate insolvency and her work is often comparative in nature. Prior to joining academia, Akshaya worked in a leading corporate law firm in India. Akshaya has published in legal journals in UK, Australia, United States, and elsewhere, and maintains a corporate governance blog.

Christoph G. Paulus

Christoph G. Paulus has been a professor of law at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Germany from 1994 to 2019 – holding a chair for Civil Law, Civil Procedure Law, Insolvency Law and ancient Roman Law. He had studied law at the University of Munich and has done his LL.M. at the University of California in Berkeley. Being an expert primarily in insolvency law, Prof. Paulus has worked several times as a consultant of both the IMF and the World Bank in Washington DC. Moreover, from 2006 through 2011, he served as an adviser of the German delegation on the UNCITRAL insolvency law sessions. He has lectured worldwide and has held guest professorships at various universities; additionally, he is member of various international institutions such as the American College of Bankruptcy or the International Insolvency Institute (of which he has been a Vice-President until summer 2017). Since his retirement in spring 2019 he is Associate Member of South Square, London, and since September 1, 2019 Of Counsel with White & Case, Berlin.

Debanshu Mukherjee

Debanshu is one of the Co-founders of the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, a New Delhi based think-tank specialising in law reform. He advised the Indian government on the design and drafting of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code and its subsequent implementation. He also served as a member of a government-appointed committee for operationalising the National Company Law Tribunal and deposed before two Parliamentary committees examining financial sector legislation. In addition to the insolvency law reform, he has also advised the government on reform projects related to company law and the resolution of distressed banks and other financial firms. He is an alumnus of Harvard University, the University of Oxford, and Hidayatullah National Law University. He attended Harvard as a Fulbright Scholar. Before co-founding Vidhi in 2013, he practised as an M&A lawyer with AZB & Partners.  He has been consulted by and mentioned in global business publications in connection with insolvency law reform in India, including IFR Asia, Financial Times and The Economist. 

Wee Meng Seng

Meng Seng is an Associate Professor, Co-Director of the Asian Law Institute, and Deputy Director, and Head (Corporate Law) of the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS), and an editorial member of the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies.  He obtained his LLB from NUS, BCL (First Class) and DPhil from Oxford. He teaches corporate insolvency law and company law. He has published in journals including the SAcLJ, LQR, SJLS and the LMCLQ and chapters in Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press books.  His writings have been cited by fellow academics, the Singapore Court of Appeal and the Australian Federal Court.  He was a member of the Insolvency Law Review Committee and was a visiting professor at various law schools. 

Wolf-Georg Ringe

Georg Ringe is Director of the Institute of Law & Economics at the University of Hamburg and Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford, Faculty of Law. His research focuses on questions of corporate and insolvency law, capital markets, and financial regulation, from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. He is a Research Member with the European Corporate Governance Institute, Brussels, Fellow at the European Banking Institute, Frankfurt, and co-editor of the Journal of Financial Regulation. As Visiting Professor, he regularly teaches at leading academic institutions in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Ishana Tripathi

Ishana obtained her undergraduate degree from NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad and was admitted to practice in 2011 (India). Over the past decade, she has worked with leading Indian law firms such as AZB & Partners and J. Sagar Associates, in the areas of corporate/ commercial dispute resolution, and general corporate transactions. She has also consulted with various European multinationals and Indian policy organisations such as Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy on transactions, working papers and policy reports. In 2018, she obtained an LL.M in law and economics with a research focus on debt markets and insolvency from the Institute of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg and Erasmus University, Rotterdam and joined Jindal Global Law School as teaching faculty in 2019. At Jindal, Prof. Tripathi teaches Contract Law and Corporate Insolvency. Ishana is the Managing Editor of JGILS and is a part of the International Insolvency Institute NextGen Program, Class X (2021).

JGILS is an online repository of pre-publication research papers in the disciplinary and interdisciplinary research relating to insolvency and bankruptcy laws. While some of these working papers are developed for future publication as journal articles or adapted as book chapters, many others remain here as their final publication home. The papers contained herein speak to wide-ranging topics related to the major themes in the development, open issues and key perspectives around insolvency, bankruptcy, debt resolution, reorganization and restructures. We hope you enjoy this collection that forms an integral part of JGU’s rich institutional record.

Introduction.

JGILS welcomes submissions from academic staff, visiting fellows, post-graduate students, young working professionals and field experts. PhD students wishing to publish their paper in JGILS are required to have an email of support from their supervisor. We, at JGILS, encourage supervisors and exam boards to nominate especially strong dissertations for an invitation to publish in JGILS. JGILS accepts both peer-reviewed and pre-peer review papers.

JGILS also encourages all authors to ensure that publishing their research as a working paper will not jeopardize their chances of publishing in peer-review journals. This varies across disciplines and journals; JGILS (including the JGILS-EB) is not responsible for making these checks.

New published submissions on JGILS are posted on official social media channels. In addition, JGILS invites and strongly encourages authors to write a short blogpost for inclusion in the JGILS Research Blog. The blog post should be written in an accessible way with a relatively wide audience in mind as a standalone piece, linking to the specific working paper in question. Posts should not be longer than 800 words or can be ‘snap’ pieces of 400 words. Select manuscripts that are accepted and published with JGILS may be called for presentation at the JGILS Annual Colloquium.

Writing Guidelines.

All manuscripts to JGILS must be submitted in accordance with the JGILS Submission Guidelines set out below. Submission in non-compliance will be rejected.

1. JGILS accepts, articles, essays, reports, notes, case comments and book chapters on a bi-annual basis. A ‘call for papers’ will be announced on Events and Announcements. There is a minimum word limit of 5000 words (excluding footnotes, endnotes, and bibliographies) and the manuscript must not exceed 15,000 words. All submissions must be made to jgils@jgu.ed.in with the subject line as ‘JGILS: Submission’
2. Each manuscript must contain a separate page on an abstract, title, author bio and keywords as below. The title, keywords and abstract are key to ensuring readers find your article online through online search engines.
   • Title: The title should be concise, with a maximum of 70 characters.
   • Abstract: An extended abstract of 400 to 700-words with select references must be submitted. The abstract must be single-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman, with 1-inch margins. Word limits will be strictly enforced. The extended abstract should provide a summary of the research, including the conceptual framework, relevant prior literature, description of the method, data, results, and conclusions. The extended abstract may also contain either one table or one figure. Do not submit a full-length paper in this category; the JGLIS-EB will only review extended abstracts.
   • Keywords: To further boost the search engine optimization (SEO) of your manuscript, please provide approximately 8-10 keywords that describe the content of your contribution.
   • Author Bio: A brief biographical note, including both the current affiliation as well as the e-mail address of the author(s).
   • Short Abstract: A 50-word short abstract may be optionally submitted. This abstract will appear in the JGILS Annual Colloquium Programme (if selected) and should summarize the manuscripts’ s contribution(s).
3. Only manuscripts in English will be considered for publication. The body must be written in Times New Roman 12, 1.15 spacing and footnotes in Times New Roman 10, single spacing. All pages must be numbered. Headings and subheadings are encouraged, and levels should be clearly indicated in roman number. For instance, X, X.1, X.1.1. Special attention should be paid to quotations, footnotes, and references. All citations and quotations must be verified before submission of the manuscript. Authors may use any one format of footnote and reference. Bluebook or OSCOLA are preferred. JGILS recognises different footnoting styles so long as the author(s) have consistency in citation. Bibliographies at the end of each manuscript are preferred but not mandatory.
4. In the manuscript, the author is free to use tables and figures, however, certain features must be taken note of, tables should be self-explanatory, and their content should not be repeated in the text. Do not tabulate unnecessarily. Tables should be numbered and should include concise titles. Figures should be incorporated in the manuscript, and it is very important that they are high quality with proper citation.
5. Submissions must comply with adhere to the JGILS Review and Publication Guidelines and the Publication Ethics Statement.
   
   

 Review and Publication Guidelines.

1. JGILS is devoted to the public display and distribution of scholarly research in a broad range of fields. A light-touch editorial review process will be offered by the JGLIS-EB at an intermediate level of publication between a non-refereed paper and a high-quality paper. Successful peer reviewed papers will be published as a part of JGILS as peer-reviewed and therefore visible in the known publication and citation databases. The decision of the JGILS-EB in accepting or rejected a paper is final.

2. We, at JGILS, see the introduction of light review as an opportunity to publish papers that do not fulfil all the acceptance criteria of journals by virtue of multiple reasons. Examples of papers that may survive light editorial review could include review papers, thematic/case advancements without novel schemes and similar topics.

3. JGILS does not take copyright on your paper. You are giving JGILS and JGU a non-exclusive right to post and distribute your paper. If an author has drafted a paper and has not yet submitted to any journal, then submission to JGILS should not be problematic in any respect. If the paper is subsequently submitted and accepted by a journal, the paper will likely be amended on account of reviewer’s comments. The journal will likely have copyright over that version of the paper. However, the academic will retain copyright over the version originally submitted to JGILS, so there is no reason to remove the paper.

4. Publication in JGILS is subject to authors signing a ‘Consent to Publish’ form, which is circulated by the Managing Editor once a paper is accepted. By signing this form, authors warrant and represent that their contribution does not contain infringing, libellous, obscene or other unlawful matter.
   
   

Publication Ethics Statement.

The author(s) who submit their manuscript to JGILS agree that:

1. If any part of the manuscript contains previously published content (figures/tables), authors should submit a statement of permission to reproduce the material signed by the author(s) and publishers concerned.
2. The authors have declared with relevant approvals any previous or pending publication of the manuscript’s content in any conference proceedings, letters to journals and brief communications, or as pre-prints on repositories. The authors therefore confirm that there are no duplicate publications of the manuscript except in the manner as below:
   • The authors should ensure that if the current study’s abstract has been published in any conferences, it is either not under a copyright or that the embargo period is over. If the abstract is under copyright protection from the publishers, permission should be sought for re-using the material.
   • In case the manuscript is a secondary publication, i.e., it is a subsequent republication that will be published in two or more journals (in the same or another language), the authors should explicitly declare this. Moreover, they should obtain mutual consent of the journal editors and follow the stipulated guidelines.
3. JGILS is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We, at JGILS, take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of JGILS against malpractice. All submissions must clear digital plagiarism checks and the decision of the JGILS-EB on the acceptance or rejection of a manuscript is final. Any feedback on a rejected manuscript is at the discretion of the JGILS-EB.

For any feedback or inquiries, you may write to the Managing Editor, JGILS at: ilwps@jgu.edu.in

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