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  • Struggle for Dignity: The Voice of Queer Peripheral

    By Ankit Sharma, Siddhartha Law College, Dehradun.  “Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?”                                                                                                                                              –Ernest Gaines Should the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender collectively known as ‘THE LGBT’ community in India continue to remain in the shadow of criminality? The de-criminalisation of homosexuality…

  • Google Books Case: An Analysis

    By Tarunika Rajesh, Law College Dehradun, Uttaranchal University. Copyright laws are a wide, all inclusive, dynamic and developing segment of the Intellectual Property Rights, which is under thorough scrutiny and examination for trying and striving hard towards creating a balance between the liberties and freedom of people involved in the capacity of a writer, publisher, artiste,…

  • Setalvad Fund Embezzlement Case

    By Aashna Jain, National Law University, Jodhpur. Liberty is more important than the stars in the sky. What is this case about? This is not a case of justice for victims of Gujarat Riots. This case relates to a plan of the two activists to raise money to convert the riot-affected housing colony in Ahmedabad into…

  • Corporate Sustainability: A New Kid on the Corporate Block

    By Aashna Jain, National Law University, Jodhpur. The objective of this write-up is to examine the concept of sustainable growth as the characteristic of the phenomenon called Corporate Social Responsibility. The researcher is not indulging in examining the widely discussed aspect of the features and the outcomes of the corporate social responsibility. The focus will primarily…

  • Use of Scientific Methods for Collection of Evidence

    By Archit Gupta, National Law Institute University, Bhopal. The Aarushi-Hemraj Murder Case and Nithari Killings Case has brought into limelight the scientific methods of investigation used in India and across the world. The three of them are lie detector or polygraph test, narco-analysis and brain-mapping. They have been in use for quite a time and their…

  • The Draconian Law of Sedition

    By Anjali Rawat, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National University (RMLNLU), Lucknow. Lord Macaulay while framing the rough draft for Indian Penal Code, 1860 added a provision to give effect to sedition but due to some unaccountable reasons when it was enforced in 1860 this particular provision was not included in the Code. In 1870 the British…

  • Constructing Indoor-Management: A Critical Analysis of the Doctrine of Constructive Notice

    By Sudipta Bhowmick, KIIT School of Law, Bhubaneswar. “When there are persons conducting the affairs of the company in a manner which appears to be perfectly consonant with the articles of association, those so dealing with them externally are not to be affected by irregularities which may take place in the internal management of the company.”[1] –…

  • Child Trafficking in India: A lucrative conglomerate of illegal activities

    By Puja Kaushal, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow. “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.” In general sense, if a child is sexually exploited and any person gains out of…

  • Advance Pricing Regime in India

    By Siddhant Sharma, Amity Law School, Jaipur. India being a developing country and one of the biggest economies, has seen an increasing participation of multinational group in economic activities which has resulted in a substantial increase in issues related to transactions entered between two or more enterprises belonging to the same group. This is when the need…

  • Bitcoins: The Gen Next Revolution or Disaster

    By Sanya Darakhshan Kishwar, Central University of Bihar, Gaya. A Critical Analysis of viability of Bitcoins as Currency Bitcoins is a peer-to-peer payment system introduced as open-source software in 2009 by developer Satoshi Nakamoto.[1] The payments in the system are recorded in a public ledger using its own unit of account,[2] which is also called Bitcoins. The US Treasury calls Bitcoins a decentralized virtual currency as the…