Adv Sachin Mungrati, Department of Intellectual Property Rights, National Law University and Judicial Academy, Assam (NLUJAA) ABSTRACT Access to reading and information is essentially linked to human rights of people with print disabilities. For many years, the international copyright system that was highly skewed towards protecting authorial and economic rights inadvertently created a situation of ‘book famine.’ The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works fo

Kritika Gupta, O.P. Jindal Global University I. Introduction The pace with which digital markets are growing is much faster than what competition law ever anticipated. Amazon invested in Future Coupons in 2019, to which the Competition Commission of India granted approval. However, little did CCI anticipate the impact of this approval on the digital market. During COVID-19, in 2020, the Future Group decided to sell its business to Reliance Retail; by this time, the concerns a

Jiya Elizabeth Jikku, BA LLB (Hons.), Jindal Global Law School ABSTRACT Artificial Intelligence has perplexed the court of law. Especially in the widespread copyright violations done in the name of training large language models. For bare minimum in regulatory necessity, we need to understand the importance of the intersections at play. The copyright violation, AI Governance, India’s interesting position in the AI race and Algorithmic Forensics. Looking at the compelling prop

Rajdeep Malik, Bareilly College, Bareilly, Affiliated to Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India ABSTRACT Section 63(4) of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 conditions the admissibility of secondary electronic evidence on a standard-form certificate whose Schedule is split into Part A, signed by the party, and Part B, signed by an unspecified "expert." This bifurcation raised a question the statute left unanswered: who is competent to s

Mankirat Singh Chawla, Amity Law School, Amity University, Noida In Indian family law, a deserted spouse may get a court order requiring their partner to return to marital cohabitation under the legacy remedy known as restitution of conjugal rights (RCR). This remedy is codified in Section 9 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, and Islamic, Parsi, and Christian personal laws all contain comparable provisions (e.g. Parsi Marriage Act, 1936 s.36; Indian Divorce Act, 1869 ss.32–33;

Ishika, School of Legal Studies, Babu Banarasi Das University ABSTRACT Matrimonial disputes in India rely on an evidentiary framework built to answer where a digital record came from, not whether its content is true. Section 65B of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, carried forward as Section 63 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, requires only a certificate confirming the device and its proper functioning. This distinction has turned critical with the arrival of generative

Dr. Neeraj Jain, Assistant Professor, Department of Law, Chaudhary Ranbir Singh University, Jind, (Haryana) ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized communication technology by providing a platform to machines to produce extremely lifelike synthetic voices that can replicate voice, tone, accent and speech of people in an impressive manner. Although voice cloning technology is being used by many useful purposes such as service for disabled, entertainment, custo

Mr Abhishek Sharma, VSLLS, VIPS-TC, IP UNIVERSITY ABSTRACT Arbitration is an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanism that involves settling disputes outside the courts by a neutral third party, called the arbitrator. An arbitrator needs to be neutral to ensure the fair and just resolution of disputes. Section 12 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 ensures that arbitrators are Independent and impartial. The 2015 Amendment of the Act made Section 12 more robust

Dr. Sunaina, Assistant Professor of Law, Panjab University SSG Regional Centre, Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India* ABSTRACT Age discrimination implies treating a person less favourably or less receptively, or not giving him/her the same opportunities as others in the similar situation because he/she is considered too old or too young. It is a kind of bias against someone due to his/her age. Age discrimination has surfaced as a notable but still overlooked challenge in the present leg

B Bhuvaneswari, B.Com. LL.B. (Hons.), Sree Narayana Law College, Poothotta, Ernakulam, Kerala Hridya Vinod, B.B.A LL.B. (Hons.), Sree Narayana Law College, Poothotta, Ernakulam, Kerala There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more. -Robert M. Hensel ABSTRACT The enactment of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 marked a significant shift in India's approach towards disability rights by replacing the welfare-oriented framewo

Sanskar Sharma, BBA LLB (Hons.), MIT-WPU School of Law Research Intern, Centre for Crime Sciences and Forensic Intelligence ABSTRACT Discussions of crime often begin by identifying an offender's motive. Financial gain, anger, revenge, jealousy, personal pressure, or difficult circumstances are commonly used to explain why an offence took place. While motive helps explain what an offender wanted, it does not explain how the offender came to see harmful behaviour as acceptable.

Binoy John, BSOLS Aluva Linto Thomas, BSOLS Aluva ABSTRACT The Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992 (“the FTDR Act” or “the Act”) is the constitutive statute of India’s external trade governance, enacted in the wake of the 1991 balance-of-payments crisis to replace the control-oriented Imports and Exports (Control) Act, 1947 with a facilitative, presumption-of-freedom regime. This article provides a comprehensive overview of the Act its historical origins, sta

Rituraj, DES Shri Navalmal Firodia Law College 1. Introduction The salary of an individual is much more than the sum credited to their bank account at the end of each month. For most people, it signifies the means to live in self-respect, economic security, and recognition of their labour. While for employers, wages are an important aspect of managing a workforce, they are the primary source of income for employees. It's no surprise that labour law has always been structured

S. Vishali & S. Vidya, LL.B., Government Law College, Coimbatore ABSTRACT On 15 April 2026 the Indian Patent Office issued its first substantive determination on machine inventorship, refusing Stephen Thaler’s DABUS application and confirming that an artificial intelligence system cannot be the “true and first inventor” under the Patents Act, 1970. Read against the wider global series and India’s Revised Guidelines for Examination of Computer Related Inventions, 2025, the ref

Dr. Diksha Munjal-Shankar, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. Mugdha Dwivedi, Ph.D. Candidate and Junior Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. ABSTRACT Obscenity, in common usage, describes material or conduct that offends the senses or arouses sexual impulses with the object of stirring lust or corrupting thought. Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution of India guarantees every citizen the right to freedom of speech and expression, yet th

R. Tejeswini, National Law University Odisha ABSTRACT The article takes a close look at the ideological clashes and cultural barriers behind animal welfare law in India and makes the argument that constitutional rights to equal treatment and secularism don’t quite fit with a religiously motivated classification system of animals where the cow is a special, almost sacred figure while other animals remain unprotected from the everyday cruelty inflicted on them. Based on a B.R.

Bennat Tom, Bharata Mata School of Legal Studies, Aluva Anaswara U, Govt. Law College Thrissur ABSTRACT The enactment of the Income-tax Act, 2025 marks the most extensive re- architecture of India’s direct tax landscape since the replacement of the Income-tax Act, 1922 by the Income-tax Act, 1961. Enacted to address over six decades of statutory inflation, the 2025 Act reduces the word volume by roughly fifty percent, compresses over eight hundred sections into five hundred a

Dr. Koneru Anuradha, Associate Professor, Smt. V. D. Siddhartha School of Law, Siddharth Academy of Higher Education, Deemed to be University, Vijayawada. ABSTRACT The fast adoption of personalization that is facilitated by artificial intelligence (AI) in online shopping has significantly redefined the digital commerce environment in India because it has altered the experiences of consumers, the way business is conducted in the market, and the governance of data over the Inte

Aarushi Chauhan, Symbiosis Law School, Pune ABSTRACT However, the introduction of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023 signifies a paradigm shift in the criminal procedure of India by making forensic investigation a statutory obligation instead of leaving it as the discretion of the investigating police force, particularly section 176(3) of the act, which mandates forensic examination of offenders who are liable for offences attracting seven years or more of im

Sufiyan Abbasi, Aryan Uchadia & Chirayu Sharma, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Pune ABSTRACT A representative democracy is built on the integrity of election records. Only until electoral records fairly represent the eligible voting population can India's constitutional provision of adult suffrage under Article 326 have any significance. The Special Intensive Revision (SIR), a thorough verification process designed to remove duplicate, deceased, shifted, or otherwise i

Aisha Tanvir, United University (LLM in Criminal and Forensic Law) ABSTRACT The exponential growth of the digital economy has transformed personal data into a valuable corporate asset, making organizations increasingly vulnerable to data breaches that threaten individual privacy, financial security, and public trust. In India, the recognition of privacy as a fundamental right in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) v. Union of India prompted the enactment of the Digital Personal D

Arohi Sanyal, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom ABSTRACT The Convention on The Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was introduced in the United Nations General Assembly on 18th December 1979 and became an international treaty on 3rd September,1981. India is also a signatory to the treaty which seeks to provide fundamental human rights and dignity to all women and expects all signatories to frame laws which ensure developmen

Vijay Laxmi Mishra, Mody University of Science and Technology, Laxmangarh, Sikar, Rajasthan ABSTRACT The case for the criminalization of instant triple talaq by the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019 is one of the most contentious legal reforms in modern India. Although the objective of this legislation is to prevent arbitrary divorce of Muslim women in the interest of gender justice It has also triggered heated debates amongst criminologists, constitut

A. Karunakaran, LL.M., Govt. Law College, Thrissur, Kerala ABSTRACT Forensic science has emerged as an indispensable component of the modern criminal justice system by integrating scientific methods into criminal investigation and adjudication. It has transformed the investigative process from one predominantly dependent on confessions and eyewitness testimony to one founded on objective, reliable, and scientifically verifiable evidence. This paper examines the evolving role