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Volume IV, Issue 1
Civil Services Reforms in India
October 9, 2026
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In India, the civil service is the professional backbone of the administrative apparatus and is charged with carrying out the laws, policies, and initiatives that the political administration has developed. In a complex and diversified country, it serves a vital role in fostering socioeconomic development and maintaining administrative continuity. Indian civil services have been widely […]
THE BLIND SPOTS OF INDIAN CORPORATE LAW: SHADOW TRADING, FRONT, RUNNING, AND INFORMATIONAL ASYMMETRY
October 8, 2026
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Indian securities law structures its prohibition of trading abuses around a single conceptual trigger: unpublished price sensitive information relating to a listed company and its securities. That framework works tolerably well for the classic case of an insider trading in his own company’shares. It works poorly and, to the point, not at all for the […]
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Investment treaty arbitration, built on the device of a standing offer to arbitrate contained in bilateral investment treaties (BITs), has become the principal means of resolving disputes between foreign investors and host States. This paper examines how that mechanism operates, why it was preferred to the available alternatives, and where its design now strains, particularly […]
Liability for Misstatements in a Prospectus under the Companies Act, 2013: Doctrine, Enforcement and Contemporary Reform
October 8, 2026
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A prospectus is the instrument through which a company speaks to the investing public, and the law attaches liability to what it says and what it leaves out. This paper examines the civil, criminal and regulatory consequences of a misstatement in a prospectus under Chapter III of the Companies Act 2013, read with the securities-law […]
MACHINES MAY DETECT, OFFICERS MUST DECIDE: ALGORITHMIC ASSISTANCE AND THE LIMITS OF DELEGATION IN GST ADMINISTRATION
October 6, 2026
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India’s Goods and Services Tax (GST) already runs on algorithms: returns are matched by machine, taxpayers are ranked by risk, and invoices are authenticated through a central portal. Within seven weeks in mid-2026, two High Courts quashed GST proceedings tainted by artificial intelligence (AI), and in doing so raised a question that tax law had […]
Arbitrating Transnational Cartels: Competition Law, Public Policy and the Limits of Private Adjudication
October 5, 2026
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The intersection of international commercial arbitration and competition law presents significant legal and regulatory challenges, particularly in disputes arising from transnational cartels. While arbitration offers an efficient, neutral and confidential mechanism for resolving cross-border commercial disputes, its consensual and private character raises concerns regarding the enforcement of mandatory competition laws designed to protect market integrity […]
The Conseil d’État and the Migration of Administrative Justice: Reassessing Droit Administratif Across Legal Traditions
October 5, 2026
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This article treats droit administratif as a legal technique as much as a body of French law. It traces the movement from the ancien régime’s suspicion of the judiciary, through the nineteenth-century habit of the administration judging itself, to the consolidation of the Conseil d’État as a true court after 1872, and it maps the […]
Treatment of Dual Capacity Creditors and Common Security Realisation in Liquidation under the IBC, 2016
October 5, 2026
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The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, has significantly reformed corporate debt recovery in India. A recurring challenge concerns the dual-capacity creditor, an entity that provides both financial loans and operational services to a single company, often securing both exposures with one shared asset. When a company enters liquidation, the law requires these hybrid claims to […]
Cybersecurity Liability in Autonomous Vehicles: Rethinking Product Liability in the Age of Cyber-Physical Harm
October 5, 2026
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The transition from mechanically operated automobiles to software-defined and increasingly autonomous vehicles unsettles the conceptual foundations of product liability. A conventional product defect is ordinarily understood as a condition existing when a product leaves the manufacturer’s control; cybersecurity vulnerabilities, by contrast, may emerge after deployment, remain latent until exploited, propagate across an entire vehicle fleet, […]