ACID ATTACKS: A SOCIO-LEGAL ANALYSIS
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DARK PATTERNS AND CONSENT FATIGUE UNDER DPDP: IS ‘CONSENT’ EVEN MEANINGFUL ANYMORE?
In this paper, it is evaluated how consent under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act) of India continues to be significant in light of dark patterns and consent fatigue. While it is true that the Act aims to secure voluntary, informed and clear consent of the users, manipulations in design and constant […]
CORPORATE CRIMINA LIABILITY: WHEN CAN COMPANIES BE PROCECUTED?
Companies used to be about making money but now they play a big role in our society and economy. This has made our legal system think again about how companies can be held responsible for crimes. In the past companies were not prosecuted because they were seen as not being able to think or intend […]
GOING BEYOND VIRAL OUTRAGE: ACCOUNTABILITY, EDUCATIONAL REFORMS AND PROTESTS
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LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF INDIAN STARTUPS: REGULATORY HURDLES AND COMPLIANCE PROBLEMS
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FINANCIAL INCLUSION POLICIES IN INDIA: THE LEGAL AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE
This paper starts from a real conversation – interviewing a house help and her friends about their experience with UPI – which revealed a gap between how financial inclusion is described in policy documents and how it’s actually lived. Having a bank account or a UPI-linked phone doesn’t automatically mean someone feels confident using it […]
IMPACT OF GST ON MSMES AND INDIA’S FORMAL ECONOMY
MSMEs make up close to 30% of India’s GDP and employ around 20 crore people, so how GST affected them isn’t a niche question – it’s close to the center of the economy. This paper moves past the “one nation, one tax” slogan to look at what actually happened: the promise of simplified compliance and […]
DATA PROTECTION LAWS AND THE DIGITAL ECONOMY: BALANCING PRIVACY
Every online action – a search, a purchase, a scroll – leaves behind personal data that companies now use for everything from ad targeting to loan approvals. This paper compares how the EU’s GDPR, the US’s patchwork of state laws (led by California’s CCPA), and India’s own Digital Personal Data Protection Act try to regulate […]
COMPETITION LAW IN INDIA’S DIGITAL ECONOMY: REGULATING BIG TECH PLATFORMS
Competition law was built for a world of cartels and price-fixing, not free products like Google Search or WhatsApp that dominate markets without charging users a rupee. This paper looks at why India’s Competition Act 2002 struggles to catch up with digital markets, where power comes from data and network effects rather than price. It […]
LEGAL AID IN INDIA
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