TRADING IN PRESSURE: THE INTERNATIONAL LEGALITY OF PAIRING SANCTIONS WITH PUNITIVE TARIFFS AS INSTRUMENTS OF STATE COERCION
The concurrent deployment of economic sanctions and punitive tariffs by major trading powers has produced a novel and understudied challenge for public international law. Individually, each instrument carries a recognized, if contested, legal genealogy: sanctions find their footing in Chapter VII of the UN Charter and a network of domestic emergency powers statutes, while punitive […]
GUARDIANS IN LAW: EVALUATING GLOBAL NORMATIVE ARCHITECTURE FOR THE SAFETY AND RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN
This article undertakes a comprehensive examination of the international legal architecture that has developed to protect women and children from violence, discrimination, and exploitation. Drawing on a comparative analysis of universal and regional treaty regimes, the article traces the evolution of normative standards from the foundational Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination […]
BELONGING WITHOUT BORDERS: SHIFTING LEGAL THRESHOLDS IN REFUGEE PROTECTION, TERRITORIAL ASYLUM, AND THE RIGHTS OF STATELESS PERSONS
International refugee law, once conceived as a relatively contained set of obligations addressed to the aftermath of the Second World War, has grown into a sprawling normative architecture that must now contend with climate-driven displacement, digitised persecution, statelessness on an industrial scale, and the resurgence of extraterritorial push-back practices by states increasingly hostile to asylum. […]
SOVEREIGNTY UNDER SIEGE: HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION, ACCOUNTABILITY NORMS, AND THE GRADUAL EROSION OF STATE IMMUNITY IN CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL LAW
The doctrine of sovereign immunity, once treated as an almost inviolable corollary of state equality under international law, has been subjected to sustained pressure from at least three directions over the past four decades. The first is the humanitarian intervention tradition, reconstituted in the early 2000s as the Responsibility to Protect, which premises the legitimacy […]
The Uniform Civil Code Conundrum: A Critical Analysis of India’s Contemporary Legal Landscape
Since the debates held by the Constituent Assembly in 1948-49, the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) as set out in Article 44 of the Constitution of India has been one of the most controversial and politically charged matters in the history of the Indian Constitution. The purpose of this study is to examine UCC in detail […]
Know Your Rights: The Various Rights Conferred on the Consumer under The Consumer Protection Act, 2019
The Consumer Protection Act of 2019 is an important piece of legislation for India in its quest to bring about a transformation in its consumer law regime, given the changing nature of trade transactions and marketing activities. The Consumer Protection Act of 2019 has been passed as a replacement for the inadequate Consumer Protection Act […]
Whistleblowing By Lawyers and Their Impact
The tension between professional duty and moral responsibility and its consequences forms the core research problem that this study aims to explore. It examines the complex relationship between the two as faced by lawyers particularly when there is a conflict between their duty of confidentiality and their moral responsibility to administer justice. The methodology used […]
Significance of IP Clauses in a Fashion Agreement: An Analysis
The fashion industry is one of the most significant sectors, both economically and creatively. At the same time the fashion industry is vulnerable to intellectual property (IP) violations like counterfeiting, design piracy, trademark infringement and unauthorized use of creative assets. The IP clauses work against these violations and provide contractual safeguards beyond registration and statutory […]
We Trusted You!
A warm welcome and greetings to the reader, through this paper, we intend to study what defection is, how it affects a democracy and how nations try to tackle it. In a democracy, people elect their leaders. This is one of the basic features of democracy. India is a significant subject of examination because it […]
THE EROSION OF A SAFEGUARD: PREVENTIVE DETENTION AND THE UNFINISHED PROMISE OF ARTICLE 21
Preventive detention occupies a peculiar place in Indian constitutional law: it is the one power by which the State may confine a person without charge, trial or conviction, and it is written not into a temporary emergency statute but into the fundamental-rights chapter of the Constitution itself. This paper argues that the constitutional safeguards surrounding […]