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Facebook-Cambridge Analytica Episode: Business without Boundaries
By Kunika Kanodia, Delhi Metropolitan Education, GGSIPU, Delhi. We are living in a world where there seems to be a humongous lacuna in knowledge, with relation to the use and misuse of our data, in other words, how data is made accessible and how that same data is (mis)appropriated. The lack of consumer awareness on this…
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Fast and Accurate Reading: The Only Skill you Need for Comprehension Exercises
By Teesta Lahiri, National Law University, Odisha. In CLAT, AILET and other law entrance examinations, the section on English has a varying weightage of 20-25% (40 out of 200 questions in CLAT, 35 out of 150 questions in AILET) which though numerically not much, often becomes the key scoring point in the paper and creates…
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The Land of Serendipity in Communal Trouble
By Samridhi Talwar, University School of Law and Legal Studies, New Delhi. The land of serendipity, full of immense flora and fauna, enriched with history, an abode to multifarious ethnicities, cultures, and languages, sitting at the heart of Indian Ocean, is the island of Sri Lanka. However, amidst all its beauty and glory, this island nation…
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Exceptions to Principles of Natural Justice: Part IV
By Adv. Shriya Maini. First Part of this Series, can be accessed here. Second Part of this Series, can be accessed here. Third Part of this Series, can be accessed here. Where no right of the person is infringed Where no right has been conferred on a person by any statute nor any such right…
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Social Security Schemes in India: Empowering the Deprived?
By Prakhyati Upadhyay, GLC Mumbai. India’s social security system draws its inspiration from Articles 41, 42, 43 and 47, as enshrined in the Directive Principles of State Policy of our Constitution, which contain all the ingredients obliging the State to move towards the realization of socio-economic rights and in effect, meet the income security aspirations…
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Criminal Laws (Rajasthan Amendment) Bill, 2018: A Sturdy Action Plan against Child Abusers?
By Shivangi Singh, Amity Law School, Lucknow. On March 12, the Rajasthan Assembly unanimously passed a Bill conferring capital punishment on those found guilty of sexually abusing children aged 12 or below. Rajasthan standing fourth in the crimes against women categories, sort this bill to be the need of the hour. The Bill, according such…
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General Tips for attempting CLAT
By Jhalak Nandwani, Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar. “It is not enough to aim, you must hit.” -ITALIAN PROVERB Many young minds aim to score well in the Common Law Admission Test and get an admission in one of the top ranked National Law Universities of our Country. However, merely aiming isn’t enough. What will help…
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Exceptions to Principles of Natural Justice: Part III
By Adv. Shriya Maini. First Part of this Series, can be accessed here. Second Part of this Series, can be accessed here. Exclusion in cases of legislative action: “Doctrine of Parliamentary Supremacy” Another distinct exception to the otherwise mandatory application of Principles of Natural Justice is that of Legislative action. An interesting query arises here-…
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LexQuest’s Online Certificate Course on Research Methodology
LexQuest is pleased to bring to you the first of its kind, Online Certificate Course on Research Methodology, which aims to make the student community, the professionals and the general public aware and well versed with the varied methods of Research, in the most comprehensible manner. Research is ubiquitous and an essential feature for disciplines…
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Special Category Status under the Indian Constitution: Emerging Thorns from a Murky Past
By Pranav Vaidya, Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur. After sustaining under centuries of British rule, when India took its first breath as a free democratic and secular republic, by ratifying a written Constitution in 1950, it was in a state of turmoil, as the British Rule on India virtually halted the political and economic development of…