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The NLS Blog

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

Subhadra Nair

This piece examines the efficacy of a Romeo-Juliet clause and interrogates the protectionist framework within the POCSO Act.

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IJIEL Exchange

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

Devanshi Shukla

An analysis of the Supreme Court's rewriting of treaty entitlement rules.

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IJLT Blog

April 2026 : IJLT Tech-Law Bulletin

IJLT Editorial Team

Updates from the tech-law sphere for June 2026.

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NLSBLR Blog

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

Aadit Anand, Sakshi Meena

Reconciling GAAR and JAAR after Tiger Global

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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

Sagnik Dutta's 'In the Shadow of Minority Rights: Decolonising Gender, Liberalism, and the Politics of Difference'

Nidah Kaiser

Book Review of Sagnik Dutta's 'In the Shadow of Minority Rights: Decolonising Gender, Liberalism, and the Politics of Difference'

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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

Aditi Thakur

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

July 10, 2026

This piece argues that allthough courts increasingly recognise the rights of prisoners with disabilities, those rights remain dependent on prison authorities for their practical implementation. The experiences of Dr. G. N. Saibaba and Father Stan Swamy show how disability accommodations are often framed as humanitarian exceptions rather than constitutional entitlements. Disability should be recognised through equality and solidarity, not sympathy or charity.

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

Sanjali Rupnawar, Mustafa Rajkotwala

Is Encrypted Data Personal Data under India’s DPDP Act? – Identifiability, Liability, and Regulatory Design in a Growing Digital Economy

April 8, 2026

Kanha, Meraj Ahmad

Understanding the UGC Equity Regulations and the Misuse Debate (Part II)

July 30, 2026

Understanding the UGC Equity Regulations and the Misuse Debate (Part I)

July 30, 2026

Kanha, Meraj Ahmad

Book Review: Sagnik Dutta’s ‘In the Shadow of Minority Rights: Decolonising Gender, Liberalism, and the Politics of Difference’

May 2, 2026

Nidah Kaiser

Assembling India’s Constitution: An Interview with Rohit De and Ornit Shani (Part II)

April 27, 2026

Rohit De, Ornit Shani

Harleen Kaur

Performative Sovereignty: Tension between India’s Digital Governance and Accountability

July 31, 2026

The pursuit of digital sovereignty is often presented as a way to reclaim control from powerful technology companies. This blog argues that, in India, this pursuit makes accountability more difficult. India's approach to digital sovereignty is not solely concerned with reasserting state authority over technology companies, but also with reconfiguring the relationship between the state and private actors. In this emerging model, the state plays an enabling role by providing funding, digital infrastructure, and access to scale, while indigenous private technology companies often retain significant operational autonomy and capture much of the resulting value. The blog explores this dynamic across two domains: the increasing reliance on voluntary, industry-led AI governance frameworks in place of binding regulation, and the expanding role of private actors in functions traditionally associated with the state through the Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) model. It argues that these developments may blur lines of regulatory responsibility and diffuse accountability across public and private actors, raising questions about how digital sovereignty is being operationalised in practice.

Advitiya Pathak, Tanush Mehrotra

Voluntary Commitment and Where Private AI Safety Frameworks Substitute for Governance

July 30, 2026

Maanasi Shivakumar, Kashvi Garg

Architecture-Blind Governance: AI Systems and the Limits of Accountability in International Law

July 29, 2026

Mudra Mehta

Power and Governance in a Technopolar World

July 28, 2026

Aadit Anand, Sakshi Meena

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

July 6, 2026

In Tiger Global, the Supreme Court permitted India's statutory GAAR and JAAR to operate in parallel to deny treaty benefits. This article argues that their simultaneous invocation is doctrinally unsound because it allows the Revenue to circumvent GAAR's procedural safeguards through the choice of forum. Drawing on comparative experience, it contends that even if JAAR survives, it must be confined to its traditional sham-only domain.

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

Shrushti Mahesh Taori, Tatva Hemal Damania

“Click, Upload, Done!” – Has Uploading on the Portal Diluted the Meaning of ‘Service of Notice’?

April 21, 2026

Neha Banerjee

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

July 20, 2026

This article examines how sovereignty under International Economic Law is increasingly functional rather than absolute, shaped by overlapping regimes of trade, investment, and digital governance. Using the EU's pooled sovereignty model, WTO non-discrimination principles, and the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism as illustrations, it argues that IEL simultaneously enables cooperation and imposes asymmetric constraints on domestic policymaking, disproportionately burdening developing economies. Digital sovereignty debates further expose the fragmentation of global regulatory coordination. The article concludes that sovereignty should be reconceived as layered and negotiated authority within multilevel governance, calling for IEL reform centered on doctrinal clarity, institutional flexibility, and distributive equity.

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

Anushka Aggarwal

A (Un)Precedented Shift? Legitimacy and the Rise of Standing Mechanisms in Investor-State Dispute Settlement

February 10, 2026