Digvijay Singh Katoch, Ph.D. Scholar, Himachal Pradesh National Law University, Shimla ABSTRACT This study analyzes the paradigm shift from inward-oriented protectionism to market-driven liberalization in India and Sri Lanka and evaluates how these evolving frameworks influence national economic resilience. While Sri Lanka initiated reforms early in 1977 to dismantle its import-substitution regime, India underwent structural transformation in 1991, dismantling the "License Ra

Pooja Singh, BA LLB, Amity University Gwalior ABSTRACT The rapid digitization of society has transformed the nature of crime and criminal investigation in India. Electronic evidence such as mobile phone records, CCTV footage, emails, cloud data, and social media communications now plays a decisive role in criminal trials. The enactment of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (BSA) marks a significant shift from the colonial-era Indian Evidence Act, 1872 in regulating the adm

Ananya Kumari, Amity Law School, Amity University, Patna ABSTRACT Despite being legally prohibited, the Dowry system continues to remain a pervasive social problem in India, leading to domestic violence, and dowry- related deaths of married women. However, concerns regarding misuse raised overtime due to false, exaggerated, or malicious complaints. This article contains the emerging debate surrounding the misuse of anti-dowry laws in India. It includes evolution of dowry, the

Mahalakshmi. S, University of Madras, Department of Legal Studies ABSTRACT Climate change has now been identified as a major threat to the marine ecosystems and the fisheries governance worldwide. Effects like increasing sea temperatures, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, and fish stocks migration, have changed the traditional fisheries systems and the aftermath are the fisheries regulations helping to expose the structural weaknesses of the international legal struc

Dr. Vivek Dubey, Assistant Professor, Department of Law, Dr. Harisingh Gour Central University, Sagar Vinayak Dutta Choubey, Research Scholar, Department of Law, Dr. Harisingh Gour Central University, Sagar ABSTRACT The media is one of the essential pillars of democracy in India, as it enables the people to voice their opinions under the freedom of speech and expression provided by Article 19(1)(a). However, with the privatization of media organizations and the stiff competit

Sriram S, LL.M., Alliance University ABSTRACT This research paper examines the applications of the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) models, which deals with mediation, arbitration and settlement models in any shareholder dispute which is brought about by a corporate governance issue. The shareholder conflicts are often complex, as well as the matters of power imbalance, the allegation of oppression and mismanagement and the dispute about control and the strategy, which im

Kshitij Thakre, Institute of Law, Nirma University ABSTRACT This article critically examines Section 43D(5) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 through a constitutional lens as the said section imposes stringent condition on the grant of bail upon the persons accused under the country’s primary counter-terrorism statute. It argues that the provision of the code under question departs from the core idea of right to personal liberty guaranteed under Article 21 of

Abijeet, Law College Dehradun, Uttaranchal University Mr. Ashutosh Mishra, Assistant Professor, Law College Dehradun, Uttaranchal University ABSTRACT India is hardly an exception to the growing worldwide worry over narco- terrorism. It symbolises the merging of terrorism with drug trafficking, when terror groups and drug cartels work together to finance and support violent acts that upend societies.1 The relationship between drug trafficking and terrorism in India is a seriou

Shakthi Samiya S J, The Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University ABSTRACT Policing in India has undergone a long and complex historical evolution, beginning with indigenous systems of community-led vigilance such as village watchmen, graminis, kotwals, and locally embedded dispute- resolution mechanisms rooted in customary practices. These decentralized, community-oriented models gradually gave way to more structured and centralized policing frameworks during the medieval and M

Asst. Prof. Shivani Khanolkar, BCT College of Law, New Panvel 1. Introduction The establishment of a criminal justice system is essential for both the preservation of individual rights and liberties as well as the maintenance of social order. Because decisions on parole, bond, and sentencing immediately influence the extent and duration of state intrusion on a person's liberty, they are at the centre of this system. Traditionally, human judgment, judicial discretion, statutor

Dr Pritee Ramkrishna Deotale, Assistant Professor of Law, School of Law and Governance, Vishwakarma University, Pune, MH. ABSTRACT India’s agriculture sector has seen a significant transformation over the decades. It shifted from traditional methods to a data-driven, AI-enabled ecosystem. India’s agricultural strategy is based on a techno-legal framework of the Digital Agriculture Mission 2024, the Bharat VISTAAR platform, and the Agri-Stack Infrastructure. After analysing th

Khayal Shah, National Law University and Judicial Academy, Assam Varada S., National Law University and Judicial Academy Assam ABSTRACT The testimony of a child witness has always occupied a contested space in the law of evidence. Questions about competency, reliability and the conditions of deposition have preoccupied Indian courts since before independence. With the enactment of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023, Parliament has carried forward the essential framework of

Mussa Idris Mshanga, BBA LL.B. (Hons), LL.M., JSS Law College, Mysuru M.C. Usharani, JSS Law College, Mysuru ABSTRACT The rapid evolution of Tanzania’s digital economy has outpaced the traditional consumer protection paradigms, leaving the "e-consumer" in a state of procedural and substantive vulnerability. This article provides a critical technical analysis of the regulatory challenges inherent in e- commerce, specifically focusing on the friction between the Electronic Tran

Aswathi P.M., LL.M., Department of Criminal Law, School of Excellence in Law, The Tamilnadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, Chennai. ABSTRACT This article critically examines the evolving landscape of cybercrime investigations in India, with a particular focus on recent legislative reforms and technological advancements. It underscores the growing inadequacy of conventional investigative approaches in addressing complex cyber offences that often operate across borders and involv

Satendra Yadav, Research Scholar (Law), Bundelkhand University, Jhansi Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Assistant Professor, Bundelkhand Degree College, Jhansi (U.P.) ABSTRACT The development of LGBTQ+ rights in India is one of the most notable constitutional and human rights in contemporary Indian Jurisprudence. The notion of gender identity, sexual orientation, dignity, privacy and personal autonomy has seen a significant change in interpretation through the barriers it has broken thro

Reshma L J, Govt. Law College Thiruvananthapuram The achievement of the disability movement has been to break the link between our bodies and our social situation and to focus on the real cause of disability, i.e. discrimination and prejudice. -Shakespeare INTRODUCTION People with disabilities can sometimes be referred to as change makers since their presence transforms environments. The society is so strange because it occupies places that exclude people with disabilities wh

Arunima Jha, High Court of Bombay ABSTRACT India is home to one of the world's fastest-growing gig economies. The Niti Aayog estimates approximately 7.7 million gig workers were engaged in platform-based work in 2020-21, a figure projected to reach 23.5 million by 2029-30. These workers operate in a legal interstice: classified neither as employees entitled to labour law protections nor as independent contractors possessed of genuine entrepreneurial autonomy. Their relationsh

Bhargav Naik, Bengaluru, Karnataka. ABSTACT This article examines the conflict between personal freedom and governmental monitoring in modern-day India. The paper critically investigates whether government systems like Aadhaar and facial- recognition technology comply with or transgress these boundaries, drawing on Robert Nozick's libertarian theory of the minimum state, whose only legal duty is to protect individuals from coercion, robbery, and fraud. Nozick's ideas of self-

Rounak Chakraborty, B.A., LL.B. (H), Amity Law School, Amity University Kolkata ABSTRACT The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has been vested the power to exercise extensive investigatory, regulatory as well as adjudicatory powers within the securities framework. While such concentration of authority is often justified on grounds of regulatory efficiency and technical expertise, it simultaneously raises grave concerns regarding the transparency, arbitrariness, as

Vidhi Sharma, Dept. of Law, Prestige Institute of Management and Research, Indore. Ishita Tripathi, Dept. of Law, Prestige Institute of Management and Research, Indore. ABSTRACT Indian fashion industry has become one of the most fast-growing branches of the national economy supported by the innovative creativity, the classical artisanship, and growing markets around the world. The booming nature of this business has, however, also revealed serious flaws with the intellectual