Ragamaliga. M, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai Uthish Guhan. G, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai ABSTRACT Today, climate change caused by people is happening all around the globe and is having severe effects on human life and livelihood (i.e., housing, job...) everywhere. There have been many recent efforts by different countries to combat climate change, but not one nation is able to do anything of significance to stop people from being migrated at large-sca

Anshika Singh, Jindal Global Law School ABSTRACT The introduction of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (“DPDP Act”) has been an important change in the Indian data governance system, especially regarding cross-border data transfers. Departing from previous proposals which mandate rigid data localization, the Act follows a much lenient, ‘negative list’ approach that permits the transfer of personal data out of India except to the jurisdictions identified by the Ce

Tharunika JD, BCA LLB (Hons), School of Excellence in Law, Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, Chennai – 113, India Boopathi A, B.Com LLB (Hons), School of Excellence in Law, Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, Chennai – 113, India ABSTRACT Deep fake technology, driven by advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning, has emerged as one of the most significant challenges confronting constitutional governance and criminal justice systems in the digital e

Siddhi Sharma, B.B.A. LL.B. (Hons.), GLAU, Mathura ABSTRACT This paper begins with a question that the law has not yet properly answered: what happens to a patient who is terminally ill, fully conscious, and in daily pain but has no machine to switch off? In March 2026, the Supreme Court of India permitted passive euthanasia for a real individual for the very first time. The judgment in Harish Rana v. Union of India was a watershed. But it also threw into sharp relief a gap t

Aniruddh Sachin Bajaj, Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar Rishish Singh, Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar ABSTRACT The intersection of environmental protection, wildlife conservation, and climate change mitigation represents one of the most complex jurisprudential challenges of the twenty-first century. For decades, the Indian higher judiciary has expanded the scope of Article 21 of the Constitution of India to encompass the right to a clean and healthy

Anuj Yadav, Xavier's Law School, St. Xavier's University Kolkata Harsh Vardhan Singh, Himachal Pradesh National Law University ABSTRACT The Goods and Services Tax (GST) was implemented in India on July 1, 2017, marking a significant tax reform designed to unify the indirect taxation framework, eradicate cascading taxes, and sister a smooth national market. In recent years, the government has adjusted GST rates on various goods and services, sparking considerable debate about

Nitya Pasari, LLB (Hons.), Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University ABSTRACT The shift to autonomous and generative systems from traditional AI, is challenging the doctrinal and conceptual foundations of Intellectual Property Law. The essence of the law has always been human creativity, intention for creation, authorship, ownership, and inventorship, the current legal frameworks are struggling to accommodate AI-generated works within this framework with minimal

Varada Arora, O.P. Jindal Global University ABSTRACT As States approach the Seventh Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in 2026, the question of whether to negotiate binding rules for lethal autonomous weapon systems remains open, and India occupies a striking position within it. Having chaired the Group of Governmental Experts that produced the first internationally agreed guiding principles on such weapons, India nonetheless voted against Uni

Vanshita Sharma, B.A.LL.B. (Hons.), Maharashtra National Law University, Nagpur I. INTRODUCTION “In Hindu Law Marriage was a sacrament, a union an indissoluble union of flesh with flesh, bone with bone to be continued even in the next world.” In Hindu Society, marriage is considered one of the most sacred rites. It is not merely a contractual agreement rather regarded as a lifelong union with deep spiritual, cultural and societal roots. Over centuries, Hindu laws governing ma

Nithika Anand, BITS Law School, Mumbai ABSTRACT The system of checks and balances, and that of separation of powers, is integral to any democratic institution. While the Judiciary, through the exercise of its powers, acts as a ‘check’ on the operations of the Legislature and the Executive, its realm of control lies outside the purview of the other two wings of the government, especially in terms of appointment of judges. India is the only country in the world where the judici

Subhransu Sekhar Hota, Bennett University ABSTRACT The recent emergence of large-scale generative AI has brought about an institutional crisis between computation and intellectual property. The purpose of this article is to examine if the discrete technological acts involved in the modern machine learning training pipeline – data collection, transient storage, persistent storage, tokenization, preprocessing, and weight- embedding – constitute copyright infringement under the

Amrita Malik, PhD Scholar, Alliance School of Law, Bangalore, India Dr. Sujith P Surendran, Professor, Alliance School of Law, Bangalore, India ABSTRACT Current corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental social and governance (ESG) frameworks fail to address systemic governance gaps regarding the widespread prevalence of gender-based violence (GBV) in global value chains (GVCs). Self-regulatory and fragmented accountability frameworks fail to address systemic sil

Monisha Chandra, Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad Moksha Inamdar, Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad I. INTRODUCTION Discussion of the UCC in India is one of the longest-standing constitutional dilemmas concerning the conflict between the ideal of legal homogeneity and cultural heterogeneity. In Article 44 of the Indian Constitution, which belongs to the Directive Principles of State Policy, it is laid down that "the State shall endeavour to secure for the citizens a uniform civi

Ikshoo Jain, B.Com. LL.B. (Hons.), O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana ABSTRACT The Supreme Court’s decision in Govindaswamy v. State of Kerala, (2016) 14 SCC 222, arose from the rape, robbery, and death of Soumya, a young woman assaulted and thrown from a moving train. While the Court upheld convictions for rape and robbery, it acquitted the accused of murder on the ground that the prosecution had failed to establish a direct and proximate causal link between the

Yashasvi Sharma, LLB, Department of Law, Bharati Vidyapeeth, Deemed University, New Delhi ABSTRACT The modern international legal order devised in the aftermath of World War II to prevent the evil of armed conflict now suffers from a catastrophic crisis of legitimacy, enforcement and existential relevance. In particular, Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter established a clear prohibition of the threat or use of force, theoretically concentrating the right use of milita

Yashasvi Sharma, LLB, Department of Law, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, New Delhi ABSTRACT The Securities Markets Code, 2025 is a landmark consolidation of the legislation in the financial regulatory history of India with an aim to replace the three decades old capital market laws i.e. the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956, the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 and the Depositories Act, 1996. In the last 30 years, India’s capital markets have u

Shreya Goyal, Advocate at KK Malhotra & Co, Karkardooma District Court, Delhi, India ABSTRACT Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the most transformative technologies of the twenty-first century, profoundly influencing various sectors including healthcare, education, finance, and governance. The criminal justice system has also witnessed increasing integration of AI-based technologies in policing, investigation, adjudication, sentencing, and corrections. AI app

Himanshu Arora, Master of Laws (LL.M.), Faculty of Law, The ICFAI University, Baddi, Himachal Pradesh, India. Dr. Keshva Nand, Assistant Professor and Head of Department, Faculty of Law, The ICFAI University, Baddi, Himachal Pradesh, India. ABSTRACT India's narcotics law dictates that a crime's severity is determined by the amount of substances involved. However, sentencing must go beyond the weight of the crime. This Article examines the doctrinal and the normative implicati

Mr. Ankur Gupta, Research Scholar, Department of Law, Shobhit University, Meerut Prof. (Dr.) Anil Kumar Sharma, Research Supervisor, Department of Law, Shobhit University, Meerut ABSTRACT Family structures in India are undergoing a significant transformation due to urbanisation, globalisation, economic independence, and evolving social values. Among these emerging patterns, live-in relationships have become increasingly visible, particularly in urban and semi-urban areas. Alt

Shruti Tripathi, Institute of Law, Nirma University ABSTRACT The following Case comment is about one of the most landmark Judgments in India’s Constitutional Jurisprudence. The point in question is individual rights like equality and liberty, on the one hand and Group Rights, specifically in the particular case with regard to the rights of religious denominations. The debate is about the ‘Essential Practices Doctrine’ and larger question of Constitutional Morality. The judgme