Prannv Dhawan Karnataka’s new cattle slaughter law lets police arrest suspects without a warrant, permits police or ‘competent authorities’, which includes even vets, to seize cattle, premises merely on suspicion and provides […]
Cow Laws In 10 States Empower Vigilantes. Karnataka’s Is The Latest
Relieving Developing Countries From the Threat of Capital Flight
Basil Oberholzer The threat posed by capital flight (or the large-scale exodus of capital assets) makes ambitious economic policy in developing countries powerless. This article examines the current monetary system to propose […]
Situation of Human Rights Defenders During Covid-19: Proposals for a Better Future by the UN Special Rapporteur
Prof. Mary Lawlor I know from talking to human rights defenders all over the world how hard this COVID-19 pandemic has hit them, but despite the enormous challenges I remain hopeful. If […]
The Indian Ocean as A Region of Future Contestation
Vijay Gokhale For two thousand years until the advent of European domination, the Indian Ocean had been the world’s center of economy and trade. All manner of goods moved through it from […]
Vidya Drolia: The Failure To Shake-Off The Ghost Of The Past?
Shivankar Sukul & Vedaant Agarwal This Post attempts to analyze the recent judgement of the Supreme Court in Vidya Drolia v Durga Trading Corporation and point out the failure of the […]
Reviewing the constitutionality of the Karnataka cattle protection legislation
Muazzam Nasir & Akshat Bhushan Karnataka’s new cattle protection legislation falls foul of established constitutional tests and is directly in conflict with the Supreme Court’s rights jurisprudence on privacy. Introduction Recently, the […]
The LVB-DBS Amalgamation Scheme: A Missed Opportunity or A Well-Placed Ace?
Krati Gupta & Raj Shekhar Analyzing the legality of nullifying shareholder equity and the significance of the LVB-DBS amalgamation in providing the much-needed stimulus to the RBI’s Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries (WOS) Model, 2013 […]
Wrongful Prosecutions and Convictions
Prof. Kent Roach One of my current research interests is the comparative study of wrongful convictions. Almost two decades ago, when I first taught in Singapore, my students assured me that there […]
The Love-Jihad Ordinance: A Constitutional Review
Saksham Chaturvedi This piece analyses the provisions of the recently promulgated ordinance on conversions for inter-faith marriages against the Fundamental Rights guaranteed by the Constitution, to demonstrate how the criminalization of religious […]
To Waive or not to Waive?: The Curious Case of the TRIPS Waiver at the WTO
Arth Nagpal and Harsh Srivastava Introduction On 2nd October, India and South Africa had submitted a proposal to the TRIPS Council at the WTO in relation to the ‘prevention, containment and treatment’ […]
