Indian Journal for Research in Law and Management
Advancing Law and Management
ISSN No. : 2583-9896
ISSN No. : 2583-9896
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In 2024, the Government of Uttarakhand enacted the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), which represents an important advancement for succession law in India by creating one set of rules for all individuals regardless of their religion or any other classification. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the effects that the UCC will have on […]
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The digital revolution has fundamentally altered the interaction between the individual, the state, and the market, necessitating a re-evaluation of the legal principles governing personal information. In India, this evolution was anchored by the landmark judgment in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) v. Union of India , which unanimously recognized the right to privacy as an […]
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India has, in recent years, moved away from its old criminal laws and brought in three new laws, namely the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. These laws have, among other things, given a much clearer legal standing to digital evidence. This paper tries to […]
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Children play an important role in the progress of every country. The future development of a nation depends upon their growth and wellbeing. The makers of the Indian Constitution clearly understood the importance of protecting children, they built into the Constitution a set of provisions that are meant to protect children from harm, give them […]
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India occupies a unique and paradoxical position in global environmental governance. It is simultaneously one of the world’s most biodiverse nations — home to approximately eight per cent of the world’s recorded species, seventeen biodiversity hotspots, and some of the planet’s most ecologically significant river systems, forests, wetlands, and coastal zones — and one of […]
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The struggle between stopping wars with nuclear weapons and getting rid of them is one of the hardest and longest-lasting issues in international law and global safety today. Countries use nuclear weapons as a way to scare others from attacking by threatening major retaliation. At the same time, calls to destroy all nuclear weapons come […]
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Juvenile justice occupies a unique and pivotal space within the broader framework of criminal law, reflecting society’s commitment to the rehabilitation, reformation, and reintegration of children who come into conflict with the law. In India, the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 (“JJ Act, 2015”) — as amended in 2021 — constitutes […]
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Preventive detention in India is a rare constitutional exception under Article 22 that allows the state to detain a person without trial sometimes for up to a year or more to avert potential dangers to national security, public order, or vital supplies and services. Though strongly opposed in the Constituent Assembly, it was retained post-Independence […]
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Consideration of environmental protection as a human right is among the most significant changes in modern constitutional and international law. In the last 50 years, environmental degradation has been more and more interpreted as the direct challenge to life, dignity, equality and intergenerational justice, as well as the ecological crisis. Judicial interpretation has played the […]
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This blog explores the shift from colonial-era notions of ‘adultery’ as a crime to the new interpretations of ‘adultery’ as an issue of freedom and autonomy under the Constitution of India. It critically examines Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code, an importation from colonial times which classified women as passive objects to be controlled […]