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Enabling Alternate Resolution For Our Very Own Countrymen: ADR Under Farm Laws, 2020

Leave a Comment / Dispute Resolution, Blog, Contract, Featured Posts / By Trisha Shreyashi

In this post, the author, through a doctrinal and reform-oriented approach, explores the means of more effective means of inclusion of ADR for resolution of disputes under the recent farm law enactments by the Union Legislature. The author does so by critically analysing the consequences of the prescribed conciliation procedure and the discretion afforded to the executive, and makes suggestions to ensure fairer adjudications of such disputes emanating under the law, and the quicker resolution of such disputes by changing the means in which ADR can be enabled.

India’s Stance To Ban Cryptocurrency Trading: What does the future hold?

Leave a Comment / Cryptocurrency Law, Blog, Featured Posts / By Sulagna Dutta and Anushree S. Nair

In this post, the authors have tried to analyse India’s stance towards the emerging cryptocurrency industry. In doing so, they have tried to highlight the regulatory issues surrounding the proposed ban on cryptocurrencies and the way forward for India.

The ‘Booking.com’ Trademark case: “Shaping the Online Space” courtesy SCOTUS

Leave a Comment / Trademarks, Blog, Featured Posts, Intellectual Property / By Yashvardhan Rana

In this post, Mr. Yashvardhan Rana (IP Lawyer, Esteemed Member of the FICCI IP Forum and Editor of the Trade Mark Reporter) analyses the US Supreme Court’s “Booking.com” decision. In doing so, he highlights the importance of the decision for brand owners and further explains the importance of consumer perception evidence in trade mark law.

Analysing the law on Airline Insolvency in India

Leave a Comment / insolvency and bankruptcy, Blog, Featured Posts / By Abhishek Kumar

In this post, the authors analyze the complications arising in insolvencies in the aviation sector and the interplay of these complications with Indian insolvency law.

The Criminalization of Cartels A Comparison Between India and Canada

Criminalisation of Cartels: A Comparison Between India and Canada (PART-II)

1 Comment / Comparative Law, Blog, Competition Law, Featured Posts / By Sébastien Lafrance

In this post, the author examines some of the reasons raised in favor or against the criminalization of cartels, choosing India as an example of the civil/administrative legal scheme and Canada as an example of the criminal legal scheme “for ‘hard-core’ cartel- like conspiracies between competitors.

Criminalisation of Cartels: A Comparison Between India and Canada (PART-I)

1 Comment / Comparative Law, Blog, Competition Law, Featured Posts / By Sébastien Lafrance

Can Men be Victims of Domestic Violence?

Leave a Comment / Human Rights, Blog, Domestic Violence, Family law, Featured Posts / By Netri Agrawal and Sanya Singh

In this article, the authors press upon the need to examine the issue of domestic violence against men, by throwing light on statistics indicative of the issue, and the progress in legislative and judicial action towards accommodation of the same in the Indian Jurisprudence.

The Lankan Prison Protests: A Critique of the Government’s Response

1 Comment / Human Rights, Blog, Featured Posts, International Law, Prisoners' Rights / By Harsh Mahaseth and Prakhruthi Jain

In this article, the authors analyse the legality and validity of the government’s response to the protests in Mahara Prison, Sri Lanka.

Intersectionality, Moral Policing and International Law: An AI Perspective (Part II)

1 Comment / Artificial Intelligence, Blog, Featured Posts, International Law / By Abhivardhan

In this two-part article, the author reflects upon the political theory of ‘intersectionality’ and the practice of moral policing & their influence on the regime of international law, with a perspective on how AI plays an important role in a multipolar global order.

Intersectionality, Moral Policing and International Law: An AI Perspective (Part I)

2 Comments / Artificial Intelligence, Blog, Featured Posts, International Law / By Abhivardhan