CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF OLGA TELLIS VERSUS BOMBAY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION CASE
TRADEMARK LAW IN INDIA: A CRITICAL AND COMPARATIVE STUDY
CAN A MINOR BE PUNISHED FOR A CRIME IN INDIA?
THE ‘PROMPTER’ AS AUTHOR: EVALUATING HUMAN CONTRIBUTION THRESHOLDS IN AI-ASSISTED CREATIVE WORKS
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, […]
SUBSTANTIVE EQUALITY AND RESERVATION JURISPRUDENCE: A CRITICAL COMMENTARY ON STATE OF PUNJAB V. DAVINDER SINGH [(2024) 4 SCC 869]
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
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 […]
REVISITING SECTION 74 OF THE INDIAN CONTRACT ACT, 1872: JUDICIAL INTERPRETATION OF PENALTY CLAUSES AFTER KAILASH NATH ASSOCIATES VS DDA
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
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 […]
JUSTICE IN AN UNFAMILIAR TONGUE REIMAGINING LINGUISTIC ACCESSIBILITY AS A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT IN INDIA
The Indian judiciary, mandated by the constitution to provide equal justice to everyone, functions mainly in English and more than ninety per cent of its citizens don’t speak English. In a multilingual society like India, the issue of language takes significance as far as access to justice is concerned. This article highlights that the lack […]
WOMEN’S RESERVATION BILL (NARI SHAKTI VANDAN ADHINIYAM 2023)
The Indian Parliament in September 2023 approved the Constitution (106th Amendment) Act, 2023 known as the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam to provide a minimum of one-third of Lok Sabha seats as well as State Legislative Assemblies and National Capital Territory of Delhi for women. Whether through their historical origins or their legislative history, much remains […]