Ishaan, B.A. LL.B., DES Shri Navalmal Firodia Law College, Pune ABSTRACT Somewhere inside Article 21 of the Indian Constitution, tucked under the broader guarantee of life and personal liberty, sits the right to a fair and speedy trial. It is one of those rights everyone agrees with in principle and almost nobody experiences in practice. This paper looks at why criminal trials in India take so long, working through the structural, procedural, and administrative reasons behind

Sudhishna Bose, K.G. Harini & Muktaa Patil, Jindal Global Law School ABSTRACT India’s adoption regime is fragmented between religion-specific personal laws and secular statutes, producing unequal rights and procedural incoherence in terms of child welfare. This paper critically appraises the statutory framework governing adoption, principally the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956, the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890, and the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Child

Savita S Pattanshetti, Research Scholar, Department of Law, Mansarovar Global University, Sehore, Madhya Pradesh Tai Chourashiya, Associate Professor, Dean, Faculty of Law, Mansarovar Global University, Sehore, Madhya Pradesh ABSTRACT The rapid expanding of digital technologies has transformed governance, commerce, and social interactions, resulting in unprecedented ‘collection and processing of personal data’. In India, the absence of a comprehensive data protection framewor

Vimal Kirti Jha & Mital Zanwar, D.E.S.'s Shri Navalmal Firodia Law College, Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), Pune ABSTRACT On 6 April 2026, the President of India gave assent to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Act, 2026 the single largest set of changes to the insolvency framework since Parliament first enacted the Code a decade earlier. Of everything the amendment does, one change stands apart: a new Chapter IV-A creates the Creditor-Initiated Insolven

Chaitanya Palem, NALSAR University ABSTRACT The designation of Senior Advocates under Section 16 of the Advocates Act, 1961, is formally framed as an opinion of constitutional courts but operates, in substance, as an administrative state action subject to Article 14. Between 2017 and 2025, the Supreme Court attempted to discipline this discretion through a point-based evaluation framework, recalibrated it, and ultimately deleted it as unworkable. This trajectory has produced

Himanshi Mishra, B.A. LL.B. (Hons.), University Institute of Legal Studies (UILS), Panjab University, Chandigarh ABSTRACT The interface between constitutional executive clemency and statutory remission has long remained an unsettled area of Indian criminal jurisprudence. The Supreme Court's decision in Parveen Kumar @ Parveen Chauhan v. State of Haryana(2026) provides important clarity by addressing whether a remission policy framed under Article 161 of the Constitution can b

Dr. Vivek Dubey, Department of Law, Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar Anand Tripathi, Department of Law, Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar ABSTRACT This paper undertakes a critical and multifaceted examination of India’s electoral jurisprudence, exploring the legal frameworks that serve as the foundational architecture of the world's largest democracy. Moving beyond a mere descriptive analysis of the statutory guidelines provided by the Representation of the P

Ms. Srishti Pandey, School of Legal Studies, Babu Banarasi Das University, Lucknow Dr. Vatsla Sharma, School of Legal Studies, Babu Banarasi Das University, Lucknow ABSTRACT The digital public sphere has turned into a sphere of proportional violence when it comes to non-binary persons in India, that is, individuals whose gender identity surpasses or rejects the binary definitions of man and woman. Cyberstalking, identity-based harassment, nonconsensual disclosure of gender id

Abhijeet Saran, BBA LLB (Hons.), Symbiosis Law School, Pune I. Introduction By 2047 India’s aspiration to become as a Viksit Bharat which represents one of the most important developmental pledges of the twenty- first century. However, this transformative ambition carries an issue that will determine the legitimacy of this revolutionary ambition: can accelerated economic growth remain ecologically sustainable? The solution is not merely environmental. It is constitutional. In

Rishitha Nimmani, NALSAR University of Law ABSTRACT This paper explores the extent of Parliamentary Privileges granted under Article 105 (1) of the Indian Constitution and whether it grants a privilege against instances of Hate Speech inside the Parliament. The constitutional transplantation of Parliamentary Privileges from British Jurisprudence leaves the Jurisprudence in India unharmonized with its own Constitutional Scenario; we delve into how the Privileges in India need

Jyotiba Ashok, Babashaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow ABSTRACT Discrimination based on religion and caste has existed in Indian society for centuries. It intensified in the 19th century. The social divisions based on caste, class, and gender gradually became a permanent part of socio-legal practices within India. Untouchability and caste and class superiority constituted major sources of social discrimination and inequalities. Differential treatment of persons accuse

Dhruv Parashar & Aryan Leander Wishard ABSTRACT In modern governance, the complexity of state functions in their broad sense has led to the decentralization of legislative powers. This is because delegated legislation has assigned the task of filling the details of the statutes enacted by legislative branch to the executive branch or administrative bodies. This method is more flexible and effective because governments can promptly meet technical and specific needs of differen

Jayant Bhardwaj, OP Jindal Global University ABSTRACT: The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has called into question some of copyright law's most established presumptions. When machines write, paint, or produce music, the question of ownership of the works of art arises unavoidably. This study explores this topic using Indian copyright law as a paradigm. It examines the fundamental principles of the Copyright Act of 1957, namely originality, authorship, fixation, and fair

Jayant Bhardwaj, OP Jindal Global University ABSTRACT Now commercial contracts are no longer limited to dealing with disputes after a breach has occurred. Instead, they are drafted to manage risk in advance by clearly allocating responsibility for loss, liability, and enforcement. Clauses such as indemnity, limitation of liability, liquidated damages and de minimis play an important role in this process by deciding who bears the risk, how much can be claimed and when a claim

Aryan Verma, LL.B. (Hons.) University of Allahabad ABSTRACT Facial recognition cameras trained on protest sites, a predictive-policing dashboard colouring Delhi’s neighbourhoods by projected crime risk, and a High Court bail order that pauses, mid-reasoning, to consult a chatbot India’s criminal justice system has begun to acquire artificial intelligence one procurement contract at a time, without a single statute drafted with algorithms in mind. This paper asks whether that

Saswati Mekap, National Forensic Sciences University ABSTRACT Human organoids is miniaturised, three-dimensional organ-like structures grown from human stem cells which represent one of the most consequential scientific developments of the twenty-first century. Their applications span disease modelling, drug discovery, personalised medicine, and transplantation research. Yet, beneath this remarkable scientific promise lies a profound and largely unaddressed legal crisis: the

Gunda Dinesh, Alliance School of Law, Alliance University ABSTRACT This paper focuses on CBDC E-Rupi often referred as digital currency. E-Rupi is India’s official legal tender currency launched by RBI and it can be used for everyday transactions. The main question is whether the E-Rupi can be considered as programmable money and It’s legal status and conflict with the fundamental right to privacy under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution. This paper uses doctrinal legal re

Jeevitha R, B.A. LL.B. (Hons.), Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University, Visakhapatnam ABSTRACT Deferred Prosecution Agreements (“DPAs)” have emerged as a central tool for resolving corporate criminal liability, allowing prosecutors to defer indictment in exchange for a company's compliance with negotiated conditions such as fines, remedial reforms, and cooperation with investigations. This essay undertakes a comparative examination of DPA frameworks across the United St

Ms. Parnika Basak & Mr. Kaustav Chowdhury, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (Deemed to be) University, School of Law, Bhubaneswar ABSTRACT The rapid evolution of generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology has fundamentally altered the concept of copyright law by upsetting established concepts of authorship, originality, and infringement. Copyright law in India, developed on the understanding of human creativity, fails to deal with the issues of AI outputs an

Shanu Singh Chouhan, National Law Institute University, Bhopal ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a central instrument of contemporary public health surveillance, powering disease-outbreak detection, syndromic monitoring, predictive epidemic modelling, contact tracing, and resource allocation. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of AI-enabled surveillance tools worldwide, demonstrating both their capacity to detect and contain threats faster than trad