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Volume III, Issue 9
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With the advancement digital commerce, clickwrap agreements has become the dominant mode of contractual consent across borders. This raises critical questions at the intersection of contract law, jurisdictional authority and consumer protection. The enforceability of cross-border clickwrap contracts in India reveals a structural tension between party autonomy and domestic legislation. Prior research has examined validity […]
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Gender protection laws in India were enacted with the objective to safeguard women from discrimination, violence, and harassment in a patriarchal society. Indian laws such as section 498A of IPC , The Dowry Prohibition Act, and the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act play an important role in protecting women’s rights and ensuring gender […]
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the legal framework of passive euthanasia in India, tracing its development through landmark judgments such as Aruna Shanbaug and Common Cause. It analyses the recognition of the right to die with dignity under Article 21, the concept of living wills, and the ethical, religious, and practical challenges surrounding passive euthanasia
The Project Director, NHAI v. M Hakeem (2021)
June 29, 2026
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the Supreme Court’s decision in Project Director, NHAI v. M. Hakeem (2021), which held that courts cannot modify arbitral awards under Section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. The judgment reinforces minimal judicial interference, arbitral finality, and India’s pro-arbitration framework while highlighting concerns regarding fairness in statutory arbitration.
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This analyses judicial interference under Section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. It examines the limited grounds on which courts may set aside arbitral awards, the impact of the 2015 amendments, and key judicial decisions promoting minimal court intervention. The article highlights the need to balance arbitral autonomy with fairness and legality while […]
THE ‘PROMPTER’ AS AUTHOR: EVALUATING HUMAN CONTRIBUTION THRESHOLDS IN AI-ASSISTED CREATIVE WORKS
June 29, 2026
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With the emergence of generative artificial intelligence tools, a once-in-a-lifetime issue with intellectual property has been thrown into a crisis: who, if anyone, is the ‘author’ of a work created with the help of AI? This article examines the legal position of the ‘prompter’, the human who gives an AI system instructions via natural language, […]
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This commentary examines the Supreme Court’s recent decision in State of Punjab v Davinder Singh (2024), wherein a 7-judge Constitution Bench which delivered the order in a 6:1 majority, had set aside E.V. Chinnaiah and upheld the State’s ability to sub-classify SCs for reservation. It explores the evolution of the Reservation Jurisprudence from Indra Sawhney […]
AUTHORSHIP WITHOUT AUTHORS: ANALYZING COPYRIGHT PROTECTION FOR AI-GENERATED WORKS IN INDIA
June 29, 2026
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The emergence of generative artificial intelligence systems, which are capable of producing literary, artistic, musical, and dramatic works of remarkable sophistication has indeed precipitated a sort of jurisprudential crisis, at the intersection of technology and intellectual property law. The basic principle of copyright law, namely that authorship attaches to the person, not the object, and […]
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Section 74 of The Indian Contract Act, 1872 had combined penalty and liquidated damages and it had seemed to do away with the requirement of establishing loss, with the result that there was a limitation on compensation. There had been a split of judicial opinion for decades concerning whether there is an actual loss or […]
Truth in the Age of Synthetic Media Deepfakes, Epistemic Manipulation and the Constitutional Crisis of Democracy
June 29, 2026
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This article is the assertion for the interrogation of ‘When seeing is no longer believing?’ It examines the convergence of AI-generated synthetic media commonly termed “deep fakes” with the constitutional foundations. When citizens can no longer truth from fabrication, democratic discourse ceases to function. Elections lose legitimacy, journalism loses credibility, and constitutional democracies begin to […]