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The NLS Blog

Scholars in Conversation: Chan Wing Cheong with Siddharth Narrain

Chan Wing Cheong, Siddharth Narrain

This conversation with Chan Wing Cheong explores contemporary debates surrounding the death penalty in Singapore, especially its links to criminal law principles, deterrence, and public opinion.

IJIEL Exchange

Panel Presentations – Dispute Settlement in International Law at the 10th International Conference on International Law

Harisankar K. Sathyapalan, A. Saravanan, Ronjini Ray and Arnav Sharma

Discussions on the practice of international trade agreements and related laws

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IJLT Blog

Between Platforms and Public Law: A Case for Interoperability

Abhinav Ravi

Proposes outcome-based interoperability standards in the context of messaging platforms.

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NLSBLR Blog

No Claim Certificates in Indian Construction Arbitration: Balancing Coercion and Discharge

Prof. (Dr.) Ajar Rab

Distinguishing between no-claim certificates (NCCs) at final payment and in exchange for extensions of time

NLSIR Online

The Right to Breathe as a Constitutional ‘Essential’

Lianne Lucia D'Souza

Why breathing clean air is now a constitutional question in India

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SLR Forum

Rescuing Justice from the Law: How the Court Heard What the Law Could Not Say

Sumedha Edara

Balancing interests of consenting adolescents vis-a-vis the POCSO Act requires an approach beyond the law itself.

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Atreyee Majumder

T(t)ime, the Ultimate Mysterium: A Journey in Ethnography

December 14, 2025

Harisankar K Sathyapalan, Lucy Reed

Scholars in Conversation: Lucy Reed with Harisankar K Sathyapalan

November 10, 2025

Kanika Gauba

Haemopolitics: Blood and the Question of Community

October 10, 2025

A plain brown background with a red vertical strip on the right. There is the text of the left saying: Interview series Scholars in Conversation - Bringing academic insights to bear on public discourse

Chan Wing Cheong, Siddharth Narrain

Scholars in Conversation: Chan Wing Cheong with Siddharth Narrain

December 23, 2025

Lianne Lucia D'Souza

The Right to Breathe as a Constitutional ‘Essential’

December 30, 2025

The article argues that India’s constitutional recognition of the right to life has evolved to include a substantive right to breathe clean air, grounded in dignity, equality, and environmental justice. However, it contends that without clear standards, proactive state action, and attention to distributive justice and intergenerational equity, this right risks remaining normatively rich but practically ineffective.

Chiranth Mukunda

The Elusive Meaning of ‘Person Claiming Through or Under a Party’: Contractual v. Statutory Privity

December 12, 2025

Rishit Jain

Parity in Criminality: A Case Against Distinction in Criminalising the Consumption of CSEAM and NCII

November 10, 2025

Viraj Thakur, Nida Adeel Mohammed

Regrettable or Fatal? Arbitrator Non-Disclosure Before the Delhi High Court

October 13, 2025

Sumedha Edara

Rescuing Justice from the Law: How the Court Heard What the Law Could Not Say

December 15, 2025

Reading Dezalay’s Lawyering Imperial Encounters: Negotiating Africa’s Relationship with the World Economy

December 9, 2025

Anandaroop Sen

Through the Möbius Ribbon: Grappling with Dezalay’s Lawyering Imperial Encounters

November 26, 2025

Faisal Chaudhry

The Political Potential of Dalit Autobiographies: An Interview with Dr. Shivani Kapoor

November 14, 2025

Dr. Chandrabhan Pratap Yadav

Abhinav Ravi

Between Platforms and Public Law: A Case for Interoperability

December 22, 2025

This article examines whether platforms like WhatsApp perform public functions under Indian constitutional law. It argues that platform dominance raises structural concerns that call for regulatory interventions beyond adjudicatory remedies. Drawing on the NPCI and the EU’s Digital Markets Act, it proposes outcome-based interoperability standards to balance innovation, accountability, and public access.

Vishno Sudheendra*

Diluting the Market Dilution Theory: Why Kadrey v. Meta Gets Market Harm Wrong

October 13, 2025

Anshul Semwal*

Rethinking Law Firm Ownership in the AI Age

October 3, 2025

Avirah V Amprayil*

Admissibility of Blockchain Evidence in India: The Certification Conundrum

September 16, 2025

Sharnam Agarwal

Ad-Interim Orders, Section 37(1)(b), and Article 227: Analysing the Missed Opportunity in Jindal Steel v. Bansal Infra

January 3, 2026

This article analyses the Supreme Court’s decision in M/s Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. v. Bansal Infra Projects Pvt. Ltd., arguing that the Court missed a key opportunity to clarify Indian arbitration law. The judgment failed to resolve whether ad-interim orders under Section 9 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, are appealable under Section 37(1)(b). This ambiguity encourages litigants to bypass the statutory appellate process by using Article 227 of the Constitution. The author argues that the Court also neglected to apply established tests for judicial intervention, such as “patent lack of jurisdiction,” which undermines arbitral autonomy. The article concludes that this decision creates procedural instability and calls for legislative and judicial clarification to restore the Act's self-sufficient framework.

Prof. (Dr.) Ajar Rab

No Claim Certificates in Indian Construction Arbitration: Balancing Coercion and Discharge

December 20, 2025

Bhasvar Adlakha

What’s in a Name? On the Regulation of “Phantom Stocks” under Tax law and FEMA

December 15, 2025

Anubhuti Raje

Slicing the Award Too Thin: HPCL v. G.R. Engineering and the Drift from Severance to Modification under Section 34

December 1, 2025

Sanyukta Chowdhury, Amit Chowdhury

The Monetary and Fiscal Mechanism

August 25, 2025

Part 1 of this blog series focused on the distributive aspects of taxation: public goods and the market failure that they address; why it is preferable that taxes be progressive and relative to income and wealth; the political and economic case for taxing capital and redistribution; and the economic and distributive implications of tariffs. This […]

Ronjini Ray, Arnav Sharma, Dr. Harisankar K Sathyapalan, Dr. Saravanan A

Panel Presentations – Dispute Settlement in International Law @ 10th International Conference on International Law

July 24, 2025

Sanyukta Chowdhury, Amit Chowdhury

The Distributive Aspects of Taxation

July 21, 2025

Sanyukta Chowdhury, Amit Chowdhury

Money, Debt and Taxes – Introduction to the Series Published by Indian Journal of International Economic Law on

July 18, 2025