Osia Varghese, REVA University, Bangalore ABSTRACT The pendency of cases in the Indian courts seriously affected the delivery of justice. When the mainstream court system faced bottlenecks in timely adjudication, the idea of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) was emphasised and entertained. ADR is the settlement of disputes through dispute resolution channels that are outside the court. Such mechanisms enjoy the benefit of flexibility, confidentiality, and feasibility. The

Simran Sethi, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Dwarka. ABSTRACT Corporate governance and corporate finance serve as the cornerstones for the overall functioning and growth of companies particularly within the emerging markets like India. The Companies Act, 2013 bought significant reform in India’s legal framework governing corporate entities in India. The paper analyses the efficacy of these statutory reforms in fostering a stronger and more resilient corporate sect

Saveri Sourabh Sharma, NMIMS Kirit P. Mehta School of Law, Mumbai (2021-2026) ABSTRACT The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 replaced a decade of tiered, mirror-and-localise proposals with a single negative-list rule: personal data may leave India freely unless the Central Government names a destination as restricted. Read on its own, Section 16 looks like liberalisation. Read against the sectoral rules that survive it and against the discretion it hands the executiv

Dr. (Prof.) Varinder Kumar Kaushik, Professor (Retired), Punjabi University, Patiala Dhruv Kaushik, Advocate, Delhi High Court “The constitutional lawyer, however, must always, if he is to comprehend his subject and treat it fruitfully, be a historian as well as a lawyer” – James Bryce I. BRYCE, SMITH, CONTRADICTIONS AND CONNECTIONS The idea of ‘India’ that we are familiar with today did not exist when the calls for the dominance of a nation-state were first heard in Europe.

Hasti Panchmatiya, BBA LLB (Hons.) MIT WPU School of Law Research Intern, Centre for Crime Sciences and Forensics Intelligence ABSTRACT Behavioural interpretation is increasingly relevant to criminal investigation, particularly in relation to deception, verbal behaviour, moral justification, interrogation and decision-making. The difficulty is not that behaviour has no investigative value, but that behavioural observations can acquire a significance greater than the underlyin

Asst. Prof. K. Panneerselvam, Government Law College, Vellore ABSTRACT The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems capable of producing text, images, music, and code has destabilized the foundational assumptions of copyright law, which has historically presumed a human author as the source of original expression. This paper critically examines the authorship and ownership problem posed by generative AI, tracing how legal doctrines built around human creat

Aathi Thiruvaranga Pandiyan, The Central Law College, Salem ABSTRACT The rapid, largely unregulated expansion of synthetic athletic surfaces across schools, colleges, municipal grounds, and professional stadia has generated a contested but increasingly urgent public health question: does prolonged contact with artificial turf, and in particular its crumb-rubber infill, expose players to carcinogenic and otherwise toxic substances? This paper undertakes a doctrinal and policy-

Dr. Mousumi Kalita, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, ICFAI University, Tripura Mr. Akash Majumder, LL.B., Faculty of Law, ICFAI University, Tripura ABSTRACT An act of cyberterrorism involves using the internet and other forms of information and communication technology to threaten or cause bodily harm to gain political or ideological power through threat or intimidation. Data theft, data manipulation, and disruption of essential services are all forms of cyberattacks. As

Hana Shaikh, LL.M. (Criminal law), Crescent School of Law, B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, TN ABSTRACT In the administration of criminal justice, witnesses play a crucial role since their evidence often helps courts resolve contentious factual issues and reach fair decisions. However, witnesses may be prevented from freely and honestly testifying by pressure, threats, intimidation, and other forms of influence. the ensuing phenomena of witness

Ruth Lalrinliani, Research Scholar, University School of Law and Research, University of Science & Technology, Meghalaya Dr. Mridula Devi, Associate Professor, University School of Law and Research, University of Science & Technology, Meghalaya ABSTRACT Cyber crime which is a crime committed by the use of computer or computer devices become one of the most common crimes all over the world. There are different types of crimes and new forms of cyber crimes have been discovered

Guruprasad C V, Saraswathi Law College ABSTRACT: Current criminal jurisprudence exists in a state of experiencing tension between the social instinct for punitive retribution and the constitutional thought of human dignified life. This research paper examines the conceptual, philosophical, and legal dilemmas and play between the "retributive mind” that is the demand that moral wrongdoing incur a proportional debt of suffering and "soulful law" which means the integration of c

Shelly, MERI Professional and Law Institute Pankaj Bansal v. Union of India, 2023 SCC OnLine SC 1244 (Supreme Court of India, decided on 3 October 2023). ABSTRACT The power of arrest under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) raises significant concerns concerning individual liberty and procedural fairness. The Supreme Court’s decision in Pankaj Bansal v. Union of India, 2023 SCC OnLine SC 1244, marked an important development in Indian arrest jurisprudence by

Ekta Saini, Jamia Hamdard Dr Shariqa Mehmood, Jamia Hamdard ABSTRACT The idea of something being original is really important when it comes to copyright law. It is the reason why some things get protected and others do not. Even though it is so important the word "originality" is not clearly defined in the Copyright Act of 1957. This means that it is up to the courts to decide what it means. This article looks at how the idea of originality has changed over time in India and

Ayush Agrawal, Rishabh Sisodiya & Sanya Daryani* ABSTRACT The Lokpal, India's apex anti-corruption ombudsman, was conceived as the institutional answer to a decades-old constitutional lacuna: the absence of an independent authority empowered to scrutinise the probity of the political executive and higher bureaucracy. Enacted in the wake of the 2011 civil- society mobilisation led by Anna Hazare, the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act 2013 promised a hybrid ombudsman-cum-prosecutorial

Vishwambhar Kanakdande & Aaditya Dhole, B.A. LL.B., Government Law College, Mumbai ABSTRACT India has now introduced a standalone law on mediation. The Mediation Act, 2023, which is the country's first comprehensive piece of legislation entirely devoted to this method of dispute resolution, was passed at a time when the Indian judicial system was dealing with a backlog of more than five crore cases. The Act includes a number of important reforms: it gives mediated settlement

Mohammad Iqbal Mohammad Kamil Dalal, Haveli Institute of Legal Studies and Research ABSTRACT This research paper critically evaluates the legal, strategic, and normative architecture governing India’s digital sovereignty amid rapidly escalating cyber warfare and autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) integration. As the global security paradigm shifts from physical borders to domain-agnostic cyber operations, traditional public international law norms specifically state sove

Deepshitha SR, BA (ENG LIT), LLM, Government Law College, Villupuram INTRODUCTION: It is an acclaimed fact that India is predominantly an agrarian country. The prodigious population of people depends upon agriculture for sustenance. So agrarian laws and reforms is noteworthy for the economy of our country. India being an agrarian nation has contributed 19.9 % to the gross domestic product of India in 2020-2021. Indeed farmers who may be the landlord or a cultivating tenant fa

Mano Ranjitha TI, Assistant Professor in GTN Law College, Dindigul ABSTRACT The rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into modern military operations is transforming the nature of armed conflict and raising complex questions concerning accountability under international law. Autonomous Weapon Systems (AWS), capable of identifying, selecting and engaging targets with limited or no further human intervention, challenge traditional assumptions about human control ove

Dr. Sunil Sudhakar Varnekar, Research Scholar, Alliance, School of Law, Alliance University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India Dr. Upankar Chutia, Associate Professor, Department of Law, Dayananda Sagar University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India ABSTRACT The gig economy has revolutionized India's labour market, offering flexible jobs and employment opportunities through digital platforms. The lack of conventional employment–employee dynamics, however, has brought about serious issues

Aditya Mishra, National Law Institute University, Bhopal Nikhil Kumar Jha, National Law Institute University, Bhopal Akshat Mishra, National Law Institute University, Bhopal ABSTRACT India's succession law framework, anchored in the Indian Succession Act, 1925, and the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, contains no statutory category for digital assets such as cryptocurrencies, NFTs, domain names, or monetised social media accounts. Yet the Finance Act, 2022 recognises Virtual Digit