Indian Journal for Research in Law and Management

Advancing Law and Management

ISSN No. : 2583-9896

Understanding the National Green Tribunal

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) was established under the ‘National Green Tribunal Act, 2010’ with the aim of providing a specialized and effective mechanism for resolving environment-related disputes in India. Due to rapid industrialization, urbanization, and the resulting environmental damage, the need for a dedicated body capable of addressing complex environmental issues had become apparent. […]

Balancing Creditors’ Rights and Corporate Rescue under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016: A Critical Study of CIRP and Liquidation Mechanisms.

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 introduced a brand new paradigm to manage companies that find themselves in a bad shape, due to financial difficulties. Before its existence, the Indian economy consisted of various inchoate and inconsistent laws which were responsible for resolving the issues related to insolvency, for example, the Sick Industrial Companies Act, […]

Forest Rights Act, 2006: Empowering Indigenous Communities through Recognition of Traditional Forest Rights

The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, informally called the Forest Rights Act (FRA), represents a significant structural break with Indian environmental, human rights and constitutional property regimes. For over a century, colonial laws severed organic links between tribal and other forest-dwelling communities and their traditional forested ecosystems, […]

CASE COMMENTARY: NAVTEJ SINGH JOHAR V. UNION OF INDIA (2018)

The decision in Navtej Singh Johar V. Union of India is one of the most transformative constitutional judgments delivered by the Supreme Court of India. The case challenged the constitutional validity of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, a colonial-era provision that criminalised “carnal intercourse against the order of nature.” For decades, the […]

From the Margins to the Mainstream: Legal Protections for Tribal Employment in India

The indigenous people in India, collectively categorised as Scheduled Tribes (STs) or Adivasis, have inhabited the structural margins of the economic world for millennia. While geologically secluded and discriminated against economically, they are also systematically demarcated from their traditional life intertwined with forests and therefore, heavily multidimensionally marginalised. The question of placing tribal people into […]