The Anti-Defection Law in India: A Critical Analysis of its Constitutional Purpose and Effects on Representative Democracy
The Anti-Defection Law was incorporated in the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution of India in the year 1985 through the 52nd Amendment. The main objective was to prevent the defection of members of the legislature from the political party on which they won the election to another political party, and to ensure the stability of […]
INFORMAL CHILD ADOPTION AMONG THE NYISHI OF KRA DAADI DISTRICT, ARUNACHAL PRADESH: LEGAL INVISIBILITY, GENDER AND IDENTITY
Informal child-care and child-placement practices among Nyishi families in Kra Daadi District of Arunachal Pradesh reveal a complex interface between customary practices, formal adoption law, gender norms, and children’s legal and social identities. This study examines how children are received and raised within families without formal adoption orders and explores the legal and child-rights concerns […]
Technology-Facilitated Coercive Control and the Continuum of Gender-Based Violence
Domestic violence law has historically been organised around the discrete incident. Evan Stark’s theory of coercive control and Liz Kelly’s continuum of sexual violence together displaced this model, showing that the harm of intimate-partner abuse lies less in any single act than in a cumulative pattern of domination, isolation, surveillance, and restriction of autonomy. Digital […]
BEYOND FOREST RIGHTS: RECOGNISING TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE IN CLIMATE GOVERNANCE
The indigenous communities across the globe, including in India, have safeguarded their forests, water systems and biodiversity for generations. Yet the new-age environmental laws only recognise these communities by their forest rights and some general regulations applicable to them. It measurably fails to acknowledge their traditional ecological knowledge as an independent legal interest. This article […]
PRIVACY POLICIES PUT TO TEST: EVALUATING LEGITIMACY OF WEB SCRAPING BY THE BIG TECH
Web scraping refers to the collection of personal data and publicly available data on social media platforms for purposes like training, researching and testing products and services. Web scraping can be both legitimate when working in compliance with data protection safeguards and unethical when such data is breached for misuse of personal identifiable information. The […]
Killer Acquisitions and Competition Law: Is India Prepared for Big Tech Acquisitions?
A ₹350 million acquisition can pass through India’s merger control regime without the Competition Commission of India will ever hear of it, so long as the target’s assets and turnover stay below the statutory thresholds. This is clearly how Zomato’s acquired Uber Eats’ Indian operations in 2020, and this shows a problem far bigger than […]
Self-Certification and the Structure of Consumer Protection: A Critical Study of India’s Dark Pattern Regime
This paper critically examines India’s emerging regulatory framework for dark patterns, focusing on the Central Consumer Protection Authority’s 2025 advisory requiring e-commerce platforms to undertake self-audits. It argues that while self-audit addresses the CCPA’s resource and information constraints, it creates a structural conflict of interest because platforms assess practices from which they commercially benefit. The […]
Ex Parte Emergency Arbitration in India: Can SIAC’s Protective Preliminary Orders Be Enforced Without Diluting Section 18 Due Process?
This article examines whether Protective Preliminary Orders (PPOs) issued ex parte by emergency arbitrators under the SIAC Rules 2025 can be enforced in India without undermining the due process guarantee under Section 18 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. It analyses the Supreme Court’s decision in Amazon.com NV Investment Holdings LLC v. Future Retail […]
E-COMMERCE REGULATIONS IN INDIA: AN ANALYSIS
Since 2009, India’s e-commerce industry has expanded at an astounding 34% Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR). But like many other thriving industries, this one face difficulties, one of which is a weak and ineffective legal and regulatory structure that cannot handle protecting the rights and responsibilities Since of the contracting parties. In June 2000, India […]
Issue of Process Under BNSS
Section 227 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023 governs the “issue of process” before a Magistrate once cognizance of an offence has been taken. It corresponds to Section 204 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC), with the notable addition of a proviso permitting summons or warrants to be issued through electronic […]