PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION IN INDIA: EXPANDING ACCESS TO JUSTICE
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ARBITRATION AND MEDIATION IN INDIA: A MODERN METHOD OF DISPUTE RESOLUTION
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Juvenile Justice in India: Between Reform and Accountability
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DATA PROTECTION IN CROSS-BORDER ARBITRATION: THE DPDP ACT 2023 MEETS INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE
The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (hereinafter referred to as ‘DPDP Act’) is considered the most significant piece of legislation in India with regard to data governance. The Act provides for a right-based regime for processing of digital personal data, which is heavily based on GDPR provisions, albeit with India’s own regulatory spin . […]
Smart Contracts, AI-Generated Evidence, and the Challenge of International Arbitration: An Analysis of India’s Legal Framework
The rise in the application of artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies has led to significant changes in the way commercial disputes are managed. Smart contracts refer to automated digital agreements that exist on the blockchain system and are automatically activated upon meeting certain stipulated conditions. Currently, smart contracts are extensively utilized in international business dealings. […]
Case Commentary: Amazon.com NV Investment Holdings LLC v Future Retail Ltd & Ors
The Supreme Court judgement Amazon.com NV Investment Holdings LLC v. Future Retail Ltd & Ors. is one of the most consequential arbitral decisions in the Indian history of arbitration. This case settled a crucial question : whether an emergency arbitrator appointed under the international arbitration rules can issue binding interim orders that Indian courts must […]
AI as Arbitrator: Can an Algorithm Decide Legal Disputes?
Artificial Intelligence is a term that we hear so often these days, while people are making new laws like the Europe AI Act 2024, bringing in newer technology to solve our problems with the help of artificial intelligence, and arguing how Artificial intelligence is going to take our jobs away. My thoughts came to a […]
CASE COMMENTARY: BHACHAN SINGH V. STATE OF PUNJAB
CITATION AND COURT DETAILS CASE: BHACHAN SINGH V. STATE OF PUNJAB CITATION: AIR 1980 SC 898; (1980) 2 SCC 684 YEAR: 1980 BENCH: JUSTICE P.N. BHAGWATI, JUSTICE V.R. KRISHNA IYER, JUSTICE A.N. RAY, JUSTICE D.A. DESAI, AND JUSTICE A.P. SEN SUBJECT MATTER: CONSTITUTIONALITY OF DEATH PENALTY UNDER INDIAN CONSTITUTION
THE DEATH PENALTY IN INDIA: ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST A PEER-REVIEW READY RESEARCH PAPER IN CRIMINAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
India’s capital punishment regime is constitutionally anchored in the ‘rarest of rare’ doctrine enunciated by the Supreme Court in Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab (1980). This paper advances a central thesis absent from the existing literature: the rarest of rare standard is not merely inconsistently applied, but is structurally incapable of principled application, because […]
CYBER CRIMES IN INDIA: WHEN DOES IT BECOME A CRIMINAL OFFENCE? LEGAL ANALYSIS OF INDIA’S EVOLVING CYBER LAW FRAMEWORK
India recorded over one lakh cybercrime cases in 2024 for the first time, yet the precise point at which online conduct crosses from a civil wrong into a criminal offence remains widely misunderstood. This article examines that threshold through the dual framework of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. It […]