Kshitij Goyal Severe penalties should be complimented with awareness building mechanisms such as workshops, opinion pieces, trainings for civil society groups, truck services and taxi associations. This would help in building a safe, efficient […]
Heftier Fines to improve road safety? A Study of the changes to The Motor Vehicles Act
“Res Extra Commercium”: Is the State infringing civil rights under a static standard of morality?
Tanishk Goyal The doctrine of “Res Extra Commercium” allows the State to keep the standard of morality static and infringe the civil rights of the citizens, without having to satisfy the test […]
COVID19-II: Go Corona Go- Decoding India’s legal battle against the outbreak
Ayush Mehta and Navya Bhandari This is the 2nd post of our COVID-19 Series. On the 11th day of March, 2020, WHO declared the SARS-CoV-2, now known as COVID-19, a ‘pandemic’. Though […]
COVID19-I: In the Face of a Crisis- Medical Care and Public Health Services in India
Heramb Mishra This is the 1st post of our COVID-19 Series. India’s medical and public health systems are ill-equipped to respond to and control an outbreak as infectious as the COVID-19, and […]
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: Is it time to move on?
Shivani Singh The year 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of entry-into-force of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which stands to be the linchpin treaty in the world of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament. […]
Sedition: The Law Itself Is The Problem
Mahtab Alam Ever since its inception in 1860, the contentious law against sedition (section 124-A of Indian Penal Code) has been used against thousands of people. During the colonial period, the law […]
Curtailing the Detractors: How the RTI Amendment Act 2019 is a new dawn for freedom’s blackout
Manvendra Singh Jadon A Jurisprudential analysis of the controversy surrounding the recent amendment in India’s Right to Information law On 25th July 2019, the Rajya Sabha gave its unabashed assent to the […]
Protests in Hong Kong: An Increasingly Elusive Autonomy
Anmol Kohli The recurring Hong Kong protests represent the uncertainty caused by the temporary Basic Law of the city-state, which will only last till 2047. In the shadow of the looming Wuhan […]
The All-India Judicial Service : A Contentious Terrain
Saumya Singh Recent indications that the government has formulated plans to create the AIJS, necessitate revisiting the concerns that have dodged this proposal for decades, and how proposed models seek to address […]
To Recuse or Not to Recuse
Yash Jain and Ayushi Dubey The test of reasonable apprehension of bias must be applied to decide that no person should be a judge in his own cause and justice should not […]
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