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The NLS Blog

Scholars in Conversation: Lucas Lixinski with Siddharth Narrain

Lucas Lixinski, Siddharth Narrain

Professor Lucas Lixinski explores the possibility of queering legal frameworks, cross-movement solidarity, and the vital role of archives in preserving community history.

IJIEL Exchange

Public Finance

Sanyukta Chowdhury

This piece traces public finance's role within the fiat money mechanism.

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IJLT Blog

April 2026 : IJLT Tech-Law Bulletin

IJLT Editorial Team

Updates from the tech-law sphere for June 2026.

NLSBLR Blog

The Illusion of Restraint: The Paradox of Supreme Court Jurisprudence under Article 226 and 227 in Arbitration

Aditya Mudhana

Article 226 and 227 interference in arbitral proceedings.

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NLSIR Online

Employment Guarantee Defused

Jean Dreze

Argues that VB-GRAMG Act shifts power to the Central Government while stripping away meaningful accountability, undermining the original spirit of employment guarantee.

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SLR Forum

Sacred Bond (Parent Care Leave) Bill 2026: New Law, Old Morality

Deblina Dey

Analyses the Sacred Bond Bill 2026, which allows relief from work to employees in India to look after their ageing parents.

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Subhadra Nair

Children in Conflict with Law/Love: Adolescent Autonomy and the Paradox of Protection

July 6, 2026

Rashi Mitra

To Ban or Not to Ban: Children’s Digital Rights versus Social Media Restrictions

May 8, 2026

Noor Ameena

An Exit from Personal Law? Atheism, Inheritance, and the Architecture of Secular Default Law

April 24, 2026

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Lucas Lixinski, Siddharth Narrain

Scholars in Conversation: Lucas Lixinski with Siddharth Narrain

July 31, 2026

Ritwik Sharma

When Must The Supreme Court Answer? Re-Thinking Discretion Under Article 143 Through The ‘Institutional Mechanics Effect’

August 12, 2026

The piece examines how the Supreme Court has exercised discretion under Article 143 across 16 Presidential References, focusing particularly on when it has refused to answer questions. It identifies an 'Institutional Mechanics Effect' where there is an apparent tendency to constitute larger benches and decide faster when references concern core constitutional institutions, especially federalism and separation of powers. It ultimately argues that federal disputes falling within Article 143(2) should attract a mandatory duty to answer, although the paper’s interpretation of Article 143(2) and its extension of basic-structure reasoning to advisory jurisdiction remain its key doctrinal vulnerabilities.

Aditi Thakur

The Ideal Prisoner and The Limits of Reasonable Accommodation in Indian Prisons

July 10, 2026

Viraj Thakur, Nida Adeel Mohammed

Consent, Conduct, and Their Constraints: Why Estoppel Cannot Cure Non-Arbitrability

May 3, 2026

Jean Dreze

Employment Guarantee Defused

April 20, 2026

Madhur Bharatiya

A Review of Seema Azad’s ‘Unsilenced – The Jail Diary of an Activist’

August 27, 2026

Becoming Allies: An Interview with Ankita Pandey (Part II)

August 23, 2026

Ankita Pandey

Becoming Allies: An Interview with Ankita Pandey (Part I)

August 23, 2026

Ankita Pandey

Sacred Bond (Parent Care Leave) Bill 2026: New Law, Old Morality

August 15, 2026

Deblina Dey

Shubham Thakare, Arpanjot Kaur

A Defensible Result by an Indefensible Route: ANI v. OpenAI and the Limits of Fair Dealing (Part II)

August 30, 2026

This is Part II of a two-part piece critiquing the Delhi High Court’s reasoning in ANI Media Pvt Ltd v OpenAI OpCo LLC. Part I argued that the Court improperly severs “research” from private or personal use and that, in light of Chintamani Rao, Section 52 is not a provision that courts may enlarge through interpretation. This part begins by addressing a counterargument to the latter claim, namely that Chintamani Rao is distinguishable because the Court invoked the doctrine of updating construction to interpret “research” broadly, rather than adding a new category to Section 52. We argue that this application of updating construction was incorrect because the doctrine requires “genuine ambiguity” in the law, which was absent here. We then advance a third argument that, even assuming the Court was correct to interpret Section 52 expansively, its fairness inquiry was inadequate. In particular, we argue that the inquiry omits consideration of the amount and substantiality of the work taken and imports the transformative use doctrine from a different statutory limb without adequate reasoning.

Shubham Thakare, Arpanjot Kaur

A Defensible Result by an Indefensible Route: ANI v. OpenAI and the Limits of Fair Dealing (Part I)

August 30, 2026

Ambika Aggarwal

Watch Lists and Wish Lists: The Geopolitics Shaping Indian Pharma Patents

August 25, 2026

IJLT Editorial Team

July 2026: IJLT Tech-Law Bulletin

August 12, 2026

Aditya Mudhana

The Illusion of Restraint: The Paradox of Supreme Court Jurisprudence under Article 226 and 227 in Arbitration

August 12, 2026

This paper examines the Supreme Court’s two competing lines of jurisprudence concerning writ interference in arbitral proceedings under Articles 226 and 226. Specifically, it argues that the Court’s ostensibly “restrictive” approach, intended to reduce judicial interference, has paradoxically expanded the scope for intervention by relying on open-ended standards that allow procedural grievances to be reframed as exceptional cases, thereby enabling courts to examine arbitral proceedings on their merits. This paper traces the contradiction of the minimal court intervention promise found in the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 and compares India’s positions with jurisdictions that have far more precisely defined intervention thresholds.

Aadit Anand, Sakshi Meena

India’s Anti-Avoidance Framework After Tiger Global: Why GAAR and JAAR Should not be Invoked Together

July 6, 2026

Prof. Benjamin Hayward

Appellate arbitration perspectives from India and Australia: The Draft Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill 2024 and the ACICA Arbitration Rules

May 16, 2026

Dhiren Gupta

The Assignment Paradox: Reconciling Personal Guarantor Liability with Debt Transfers under IBC Resolution Plans

April 28, 2026

Sanyukta Chowdhury

Public Finance

August 10, 2026

In Part 3 of this series, public finance as a part of the money mechanism will be discussed.

Neha Banerjee

Reassessing Sovereignty in the age of Trade, Tech, and Climate Change

July 20, 2026

Darshan Rao

Hunting the Huntsman- The Varied Interpretations of Capital Reduction as a Form of Corporate Re-organization

July 8, 2026

Devanshi Shukla

Poking the Tiger: The Supreme Court Rewrites India’s Treaty Entitlement Rules

March 11, 2026