R. Afrin Jakhan, LLB (Hons.), Chettinad Academy of Research and Education ABSTRACT Patents are supposed to encourage innovation. They try to balance the broad goals of scientific progress with private economic interests, giving inventors exclusive rights to their creations. But honestly, there hasn’t been serious research on how well Section 84 works after the TRIPS agreement, especially when you think about what “reasonable affordability” really means under India’s current d

Viplav Baranwal, HPNLU, Shimla ABSTRACT The prolonged delay in the delivery of justice constitutes one of the most persistent and debilitating crises confronting the Indian legal system. With a huge backlog of cases, India stands at a critical juncture where technological intervention is no longer an option but an institutional administrative requirement. This paper examines the deployment of information and communication technology in accelerating judicial processes in India

Bhumi Verma, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University ABSTRACT Today a free man and tomorrow caged for no provable reason of his crime but on mere suspicion of potentially committing one. On the surface, one would interpret Preventive Detention laws to be as such. However, its complexity runs deep and so does its merits and damage. Justifying the detention of an individual on suspicion cannot be carried out arbitrarily but rather is to be subject to strict guidelines, l

Karthik Varma O.P. Jindal Global University ABSTRACT The Doctrine of Undisclosed Agency, though perceived as an anomaly by English jurists, holds significant value for French lawyers as a tool to grasp the complexities of the agency problem, while German legal experts view it as a catalyst for legal progress. Despite its centuries-old prevalence, controversies persist around this concept, including debates over the rights of third parties, the obligations and entitlements of

Prof. (Dr.) B Vijayalaxmi, Professor, Department of Law, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana, India ABSTRACT Access to safe water and sanitation is not a privilege of civic convenience— it is a prerequisite of human dignity and a condition for substantive gender equality. In India, the burden of water insecurity falls disproportionately on women, intersecting with caste, poverty, geography, and social marginalisation to produce acute and enduring deprivation. This articl

Kumar Kartikeya, Ph.D Scholar (Law), NIMS University Om Pratap Singh, Advocate, Allahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench Founder, Law Foundation (NGO), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh ABSTRACT The convergence of cryptocurrency and the dark web has created a formidable new theatre for terrorist financing one that is pseudonymous, borderless, and structurally resistant to conventional investigative mechanisms. In India, the legal response to this threat has been largely reactive: the Prevent

Pavithra Jayan, Manipal Law School, Manipal Academy of Higher Education ABSTRACT The integration of artificial intelligence into the legal field is one of the most significant revolutions the profession has undergone in a while. While AI and its rapid growth promise efficiency, it also raises multiple ethical and regulatory challenges which the current legal systems are unprepared to address and navigate. There are multiple ethical conflicts that generative AI creates – quest

Gauri Joshi, LL.B., Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Institute of Management and Research (BVIMR), New Delhi Harsh Verma, LL.B., Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Institute of Management and Research (BVIMR), New Delhi ABSTRACT The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS) introduces community service as an alternative form of punishment, reflecting a shift towards a more reformative approach in India's criminal justice system. This paper examines the concept, objectives, and legal framework of community s

Shreya Menon, ILS Law College, Pune ABSTRACT This essay addresses the challenges that arise regarding attributability towards a state for the actions of non-state actor in the cyberspace. With the surge in the cyberattacks both in the national and international levels, it becomes more than necessary for the need of an international legal framework. Existing attribution rules, such as Article 8 of the Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts, the

Jacques Bellezit, University of Strasbourg ABSTRACT Félicien Kabuga was allegedly the financier behind the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Indicted by the International Tribunal for Rwanda, he was liberated due to his unfitness to be tried. However, since his release, no solutions have been found between the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals and several States, especially France. By having implicitly upheld French authorities’ refusal to host a disabled but high

Dineshk Jain, Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University ABSTRACT This research note critically examines the Supreme Court's decision in Dilip Premnarayan Tiwari v State of Maharashtra, a landmark judgment situated at the intersection of evidentiary principles, honour killing jurisprudence, and capital sentencing under Indian criminal law. The note analyses the Court's approach towards the evidentiary value of injured eyewitness testimony, omissions in the First

Anshul Kumar Manik, University of Allahabad ABSTRACT The rapid development and commercialization of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) have converted neurotechnology from a niche medical research innovation into a consumer product, spanning industries such as healthcare, workplace monitoring, gambling, education, and smart devices. As the technological systems grow more capable of direct neural intervention, they will begin generating neural data that will not only sum up an in

Shivangi Lachhiramka, LL.B. (Hons.), O.P. Jindal Global University ABSTRACT In the usual conception, the decision makers in the corporation are the persons who have the title of the Board of Directors. But that’s not quite right. There is another set of persons that influences the decisions taken by the Board. Such persons are called as ‘Shadow Directors’. While the notion of shadow director has not been specifically defined under Indian legislation, by virtue of Section 251(

Garima Malik, Trinity Institute of Professional Studies, Dwarka ABSTRACT The article examine the amendment in the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 and its impact on the rights of the transgender people. The 2019 act gave the broad definition to transgender people but the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026 act is narrow. The amendment act narrowed the definition of “transgender people”, exclusion of self-perceived gender identity

V Sri Pranavi & Vasanth Joel ABSTRACT AI and robots are improving very fast. And because of this, the law’s old ideas about who is creative, who is the author, and who owns a creative work are no longer clear or sufficient. Earlier, law assumed only humans created things. That assumption is now being questioned. Today, AI can write poems, compose music, create paintings, and even invent things, often without much human help. But copyright law was designed only for human creat

Dia S, B.A.LL.B. (Hons.), Amity Law School, Amity University Bengaluru, India ABSTRACT In the context of modern economies with mass production, digitalised markets and globalised supply chains, consumer protection has become of increasing importance. In India, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) is responsible for protecting the interests of consumers by setting standards, certifying products, ensuring quality control and creating awareness on safe consumption practices. The

Chandramauli Mishra, O.P. Jindal Global University ABSTRACT This paper analyses the developing jurisprudence about euthanasia in India in the context of the fundamental right to life and personal liberty under Article 21 of the Constitution of India. The paper traces the judicial trajectory from the judgement of the Bombay High Court in State of Maharashtra v. Maruty Sripati Dubal (1987) to the Supreme Court judgements in Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug v. Union of India (2011) and

F.W.H. Samathanarasan, LL.M., (International Law and Organisation), University of Madras, Department of Legal Studies ABSTRACT Climate change litigation has emerged as a significant legal mechanism for addressing the growing impacts of climate change and ensuring accountability for environmental harm. As the adverse effects of global warming increasingly threaten ecosystems, human rights, and sustainable development, courts at the domestic, regional, and international levels

Roopal Singh, Jaipur National University ABSTRACT The Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs has emerged as an important mechanism for securing design protection across multiple jurisdictions through a single international application. As globalization and international trade continue to expand, industrial designs have become valuable intellectual property assets that contribute significantly to product differentiation, market competitiveness, a

Vijayaraghavan K, LLM, School of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Administration, Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, School of Excellence, Taramani, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India ABSTRACT This abstract examines how place-based and person-based algorithmic tools embed systemic bias into public safety operations, converting flawed past data into automated, discriminatory futures. By analyzing the mechanics of machine learning models used in modern policing, this paper detail