AI, SOCIETY AND THE FUTURE OF LEGAL EDUCATION
Conceptual Foundations of Corporate Criminal Liability
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Gendered Criminal Law and Exclusion: How the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, Fails to Address the Needs of Men and LGBTQ+ Victims
India recently overhauled its entire criminal legal framework by enacting new criminal laws, namely the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam. The primary purpose was to decolonize and depart from the existing criminal law framework by making it more liberal and victim-centric in nature. This paper aims to analyze such […]
Impact Of Uttarakhand Uniform Civil Code on Inheritance Laws in India
In 2024, the Government of Uttarakhand enacted the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), which represents an important advancement for succession law in India by creating one set of rules for all individuals regardless of their religion or any other classification. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the effects that the UCC will have on […]
BALANCING PRIVACY AND POWER: A CRITICAL STUDY OF INDIA’S DATA PROTECTION REGIME AFTER PUTTASWAMY’
The digital revolution has fundamentally altered the interaction between the individual, the state, and the market, necessitating a re-evaluation of the legal principles governing personal information. In India, this evolution was anchored by the landmark judgment in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) v. Union of India , which unanimously recognized the right to privacy as an […]
Digital Evidence in the Indian Criminal Justice System with Special Reference to the New Criminal Laws of 2023
India has, in recent years, moved away from its old criminal laws and brought in three new laws, namely the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. These laws have, among other things, given a much clearer legal standing to digital evidence. This paper tries to […]
The Role of Indian Constitution in Protecting Children’s Right, A Study of Articles 14, 15, 21A and 39(f)
Children play an important role in the progress of every country. The future development of a nation depends upon their growth and wellbeing. The makers of the Indian Constitution clearly understood the importance of protecting children, they built into the Constitution a set of provisions that are meant to protect children from harm, give them […]
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW IN INDIA: POLLUTION CONTROL, CLIMATE CHANGE LAW, AND WILDLIFE PROTECTION
India occupies a unique and paradoxical position in global environmental governance. It is simultaneously one of the world’s most biodiverse nations — home to approximately eight per cent of the world’s recorded species, seventeen biodiversity hotspots, and some of the planet’s most ecologically significant river systems, forests, wetlands, and coastal zones — and one of […]
Nuclear Deterrence v. Disarmament: A Legal and Strategic Conflict in the 21st Century
The struggle between stopping wars with nuclear weapons and getting rid of them is one of the hardest and longest-lasting issues in international law and global safety today. Countries use nuclear weapons as a way to scare others from attacking by threatening major retaliation. At the same time, calls to destroy all nuclear weapons come […]
JUVENILE JUSTICE IN INDIA: A CRITICAL LEGAL ANALYSIS OF THE JUVENILE JUSTICE
Juvenile justice occupies a unique and pivotal space within the broader framework of criminal law, reflecting society’s commitment to the rehabilitation, reformation, and reintegration of children who come into conflict with the law. In India, the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 (“JJ Act, 2015”) — as amended in 2021 — constitutes […]