Sampurna Banerjee, Amity University, Kolkata ABSTRACT Financial influencers, or "finfluencers," have emerged as potent social personalities offering investment advice, gaining immense popularity in the Indian market, particularly among young retail investors. Retail investors - individuals trading securities for personal accounts rather than organizations - play a pivotal role in market dynamics. While finfluencers have increased financial awareness and capital flow, unregula

Gauri Dwivedi, LL.B. (Hons.), Amity Law School, Noida ABSTRACT The intersection of climate governance and federalism in India presents a complex institutional challenge, particularly in the context of evolving environmental legislation. The Forest (Conservation) Amendment Act, 2023 (FCAA 2023) marks a significant shift in India’s forest governance framework by redefining the scope of forest land, expanding exemptions, and strengthening central control over ecological decision

Mr. Padam Sharma, Amity Law School, Noida ABSTRACT Mergers and acquisitions in India are not discrete events of corporate strategy development, but structural transactions embodying key tensions between the imperatives of capital formation efficiency, minority shareholder protection, competition policy goals and regulatory regimes aimed at balancing competing stakeholder interests. This article offers a critical legal analysis of the regulation of M&A transactions by the Comp

Prajual Agarwal & Sonam Drolia, Birla Global University, Bhubaneshwar ABSTRACT In this article, we analyze how Indian family law views inheritance and succession rights of children born through surrogacy. Although the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021 provides that intended parents are the lawful guardians by establishing that legal parentage exists from birth of the surrogacy born child, it does not explicitly harmonize succession rights due to the pluralism of personal law s

Peehu Bhardwaj, Amity University, Noida Introduction Custodial violence is a grave affront to human dignity and personal liberties, and strikes at the very heart of constitutionalism in India. It involves instances of torture, assault and even murder of persons in police and judicial custody. Despite the constitution's strong commitment to the protection of fundamental rights, instances of custodial violence continue to occur, reflecting the need for enhanced accountability o

Brish Kumar Pankaj, Law College Dehradun, India Binu Kanwar, Independent Researcher, India ABSTRACT Biodiversity sustains the natural laws of humanity and their existence. Biodiversity sustains and regulates soil and systems and supports the existence of plants and fauna. Biomes and the ecosystems they support are of analytical value and important for sustenance and productivity outside of the user. Legal, biological, and ecological conservation of biodiversity is of great co

Harmansha Sokhi, LL.M. Candidate, School of Law, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India I. ABSTRACT With the militarization and commercialization of outer space, the proliferation of autonomous and AI-powered systems with minimal human intervention in real-time has become more widespread. The internal logic that drives these systems may not always be entirely clear, even for their designers. The creation of orbital debris by autonomous space systems in

Kratika Jaswani, School of Law, Prestige Institute of Management and Research, Indore ABSTRACT The Competition Act of 2002 provides a legal basis for CCI's extraterritorial jurisdiction through the Effects Doctrine in regulating cross-border mergers. This paper critically examines the doctrine's application to cross-border mergers in India during 2020-2025, a period marked by digital consolidation, the Competition (Amendment) Act, 2023, and high-value technology-sector acquis

Harshnarayan Tiwari, Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar (M.P.) Drishti Shukla, Indore Institute of Law, Indore (M.P.) ABSTRACT In the workplace, sexual harassment is a malign pattern of gender-based discrimination, which breaks the core value of equal rights implicit with Articles 14, 15, 19 (1) (g) and 21 of the Indian Constitution which ensures equality, non- discrimination, freedom in occupations as well as life with dignity respectively. Sexual Harassment of Women

Sarita Kumari, Christ (Deemed to be University) Lavasa, Pune ABSTRACT This paper examines the critical link between India's Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 ("RTE Act") and the constitutional rights of minority institutions under Article 30(1). RTE implements Article 21A by mandating free education and a 25% reservation for weaker sections in private schools (Sec. 12(1)(c)), but Article 15(5) (93rd Amendment) explicitly exempts minority schools fro

Dr Preeti Rawat, Assistant Professor, Department of Law, M.M.H College, Ghaziabad (CCS University, Meerut) “I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.” - Dr B. R. Ambedkar ABSTRACT The Maternity Benefit Act of 1961 enacted under Article 42 of Constitution, provides for maternity benefits, providing protection, leave, and financial benefits to pregnant and childbearing women workers during maternity at their workplace. With chang

Sagara Sachin, Christ (Deemed to be University), Pune, Lavasa ABSTRACT The use of post-mortem examination reports (“PMRs” or “post-mortem reports”) in Indian criminal trials presents complex evidentiary questions. Though an autopsy report is treated as expert evidence under Section 45 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (IEA), Indian courts have long cautioned that a PMR “alone... is not a substantive piece of evidence”. In practice, PMRs generally serve to corroborate or supple

Deepak Patel & Shivangi Haldwani, LL.M. (IPR), National Law University, Delhi ABSTRACT This article discusses whether the copyright exhaustion doctrine (also known as the first sale doctrine) can be applied to hybrid software products, i.e. works that combine functional computer programs with substantial expressive elements such as user interfaces graphics icons, fonts, and templates. Comparative analysis shows that European Union law and Indian law have very different approa

Ayoushi Jain & Rishabh Dwivedi, Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies. ABSTRACT ‘Waqf’ is a religious and philanthropic institution in Islam, created for public welfare and community development, forming a significant part of religious endowments and is governed by statutory laws. However, over time the waqf administration has faced serious challenges, such as mismanagement, lack of transparency, unchecked powers of the Waqf Boards, and disputed claims over public and

Shrasti Singh, PhD Research Scholar, Department of Law, University of Lucknow ABSTRACT In accordance with the Biomedical Waste Management Rules and revised guidelines 2025, this study examines the responsibilities of operators of common biomedical waste treatment and disposal facilities (henceforth CBWTF). It is the duty of the CPCB, as a national prescribed authority, to formulate rules or recommendations pertaining to biomedical waste management in order to enhance the effi

Rudrali Deshpande, New Law College, BVDU I. INTRODUCTION The stark contrast of Mumbai’s mobile library vans, which lend smart devices to children so they could attend online classes during COVID-19, against the backdrop of remote rural areas, which are not able to access either the internet or devices, illustrates a much larger constitutional issue: how can we fulfil the RTE when there exists such a large digital divide in our society? The RTE guarantees free and compulsory e

Gyanendra Akrisht Tripathi, B.A.LL.B. (Hons.), School of Law, CHRIST (Deemed to be University). ABSTRACT The Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill, 2024 brings about the most comprehensive amendment to India's arbitration regime post-2015, 2019 and 2021 amendments. Introducing a plethora of substantial changes, from codification of emergency arbitration to constitution of Appellate Arbitral Tribunals and digitisation of arbitration proceedings, the Bill reflects a str

Ashwath Chitranshi & Aryan Sharma, B.B.A. LL.B. (Hons.), Bennett University, School of Law, Greater Noida ABSTRACT The rise of platform-mediated labour has fundamentally altered the traditional contours of the employer-employee relationship. In India, this transformation has produced a workforce of approximately 12 million gig and platform workers as of 2024-25 a figure projected to exceed 23.5 million by 2029-30 who remain structurally exposed to income volatility, occupatio

Ms. Tina Benny & Dr. Kuldeep Chand ABSTRACT The emergence of third-party funding (TPF) in international arbitration has introduced the role of external investors who bear the costs of arbitration in return for a portion of the award. TPF bolsters the ability of previously disadvantaged parties to pursue justiciable and otherwise financially unconceivable claims. However, it also contrasts with the principles of justice and structural processes of integrity, independence, and

Neha Bhuwania, LLM-SOL Presidency University Kishore Kumar D, LLM-SOL Presidency University ABSTRACT Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly becoming an integral part of our lives, impacting decision-making in sectors such as health, finance, governance and digital services. AI offers efficiency, innovation and convenience, but it also presents significant privacy challenges. AI’s reliance on vast, often sensitive, personal data sets and opaque decision- making processes