Artificial Intelligence and Law
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the legal profession by improving legal research, contract management, dispute resolution, and judicial administration. This article examines the role of AI in the legal system from Indian and international perspectives and analyses the opportunities and challenges arising from its use. It discusses concerns relating to privacy, algorithmic bias, deepfakes, accountability, […]
Harmonization or Cosmetic Compliance? Public Policy Exception Under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act vis-à-vis the UNCITRAL Model Law
This paper is a critical analysis of key issues to determine whether India’s interpretation of public policy exemption under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 is a genuine reflection of harmonization with the international standards of arbitration practice or is cosmetic compliance with the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration. Public policy, under global […]
Harmonizing Laws at Sea: The Complexities of Cross Border Maritime Insolvency
Cross-border maritime insolvency typically arises in an event whereby shipping companies with both assets and creditors in many jurisdictions incur a complex cross-section of admiralty law and insolvency law. With the continued cross-border flows of ships and with companies owning assets and creditors located across borders, “it becomes hard to deal with insolvency. Some of […]
AI ASSISTED ANTI – DUMPING INVESTIGATIONS: DATA GOVERNANCE AND ALGORITHMIC ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE INDIAN LEGAL FRAMEWORK
The accelerating integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into trade remedy investigations is changing how national authorities collect, process, and evaluate trade data. In India, AI-assisted tools promise to improve efficiency, accuracy, and speed in anti-dumping investigations. This strengthens protection for domestic industries against unfair trade practices. However, this technological advancement brings complex legal and policy […]
The Missing Shield: Examining the Absence of Anti-Retaliation Laws in India’s Whistleblower Protection Framework
The increasing cases exposing fraud, corruption, and other forms of misconduct are highlighting a need for a person who plays crucial role in promoting transparency, accountability and ethical conduct within corporate organizations by reporting such cases. And such individuals are called as whistleblowers. For sound corporate governance whistle blowers are important and hence those are […]
ESG (ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, GOVERNANCE) COMPLIANCE AND COPORATE GOVERNANCE IN INDIA
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) compliance has emerged as a significant aspect of modern corporate governance. Investors, regulators, and stakeholders increasingly expect companies to operate sustainably while maintaining transparency and accountability. In India, ESG regulation has gained momentum through the introduction of the Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting (BRSR) framework by the Securities and Exchange […]
The Jurisprudence of Sustainability: Integrating Technological Sovereignty and ESG Mandates in India’s 2047 Developmental Vision
This research paper examines the legal and regulatory architecture necessary to achieve sustainable development within the framework of India’s “Viksit Bharat” 2047 vision. Drawing from a comprehensive interdisciplinary discourse, the paper analyses the legal imperatives of Artificial Intelligence (AI) sovereignty, the shift toward mandatory Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) compliance in the corporate and banking […]
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. […]