By: Kriti Parashar The recent Suo motu action taken by the Supreme Court of India against Calcutta High court Judge, Justice C.S. Karnan, alleging contempt of court action against him is the first time such an action has been taken against a High Court Judge that too by the highest court in the country. The verdict on the contempt proceeding remains pending, while C.S.Karnan has … Continue reading A Judge’s Freedom of Speech & Expression
By: Gunjan Thakur In today’s world, technology is developing at an unprecedented rate. This has brought a complete turnover to our lifestyles as it has redesigned the approach of our living, our style of communication, our way of travelling, our procedure of learning and so many auxiliary changes have been brought about by these continuous technological elevations. The scope of the cyber world is expansive; … Continue reading Cyber Porn: A Gray Area
By: Aastha Mehta Vijay Mallya’s rise and fall can be a classic Indian movie potboiler. His running away secretly to London; fighting the charges against him legally in British courts have been the subject of various news reports and journalistic commentary. However, in this piece, I am going to dedicate my attention solely to why India may see itself in choppy waters, legally speaking, in … Continue reading Why India Needs to Buckle Up for a Long Journey Ahead?
By: Swapnil Tripathi Digital marketing or as commonly known as e-commerce has become a common phenomenon today. E-commerce today caters to every need of a consumer by using technology, wherein the consumer can place an order, pay online using his debit or credit card and just sit back, relax and receive his order in a couple of days. However, as much as technology aids these … Continue reading Are E-Commerce Websites Liable for Their Sins in India? Not Quite So.
By: Shalvi Singh Cow slaughter finds a special mention in the Indian Constitution under Article 48 which specifically obligates the State to take steps towards prohibiting the slaughter of “cows and calves and other milch and draught cattle”. However, interestingly, it omits other bovines, seemingly because slaughtering them could not have been quite as profitable for the economy.[1] By revisiting the Constituent assembly debates, it … Continue reading Cow Slaughter and the Constitution: Uneasy Compromises
By: Ananye Krishna Presently, India does not have any legislation on space. It only has some policies and guidelines which govern space-related activities like the Satellite Communications Policy (hereinafter ‘SATCOM Policy’), 1997 and the Remote Sensing Data Policy (hereinafter ‘RSDP’), 2011 of the Department of Space, GoI. Besides, India is also party to international space treaties, the chief among them being the Outer Space Treaty of … Continue reading Space Law and India
By: Paridhi Poddar The principle of non-intervention has been one the fundamental principles of international law informed by the doctrine of state sovereignty. Of late, the advent of interventionist era in international politics has been criticized on account of the threat it poses to international order. However, an absolute principle of non-intervention is also feared as it would subject the victims of human rights abuse … Continue reading The Changing Meaning of Non-intervention in Contemporary International Law
By: Utkarsh Agarwal A couple of days ago, I came across a question on Quora: “Is Law a science?” It is a clichéd question with several ways to approach it. In my enthusiasm, I wrote an answer about how the facts of an individual case shape the law and there is no one fixed hypothesis that governs the functioning of law, and therefore, law is … Continue reading Is Law Science?
Article by Deepali Shukla In an attempt to prevent illegal smuggling of migrants and their unchecked arrivals into European Union (hereinafter EU), the German Chancellor Angela Merkel brokered the controversial EU-Turkey refugee deal. It lays down that all irregular Syrian migrants (i.e. those migrating without the necessary authorization or documents required under immigration regulations of the destination country) who will arrive in Greece after March … Continue reading EU-Turkey Refugee Deal: Where are the Laws and Morality?
By: Vikrant Yadav ‘Bitcoin’ is one of the earliest cryptocurrencies[1] which has gained widespread prominence in the digital currency market today. It is a “peer-to-peer, electronic cash system”[2] which is based on an open source cryptographic protocol and is independent of any central authority. A transfer of bitcoins is a transfer of value between the involved bitcoin addresses, and every transfer gets recorded in the Blockchain, a … Continue reading ‘Bitcoins’: Legal Conundrums Surrounding the Cryptocurrency
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