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The NLS Blog

Scholars in Conversation: Stanley Yeo with Nikita Ahalyan

Stanley Yeo and Nikita Ahalyan

Yeo and Ahalyan explore comparative law, the impact of scholarship on case law, and the pursuit of criminal justice.

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

AI in the Everyday in India - A Socio-Legal Workshop

IJLT Editorial Team

Reports discussions held in the workshop on 10th January 2026 at NLSIU.

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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

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NLSIR Online

Bridging Innovation And Competition: The Cross-Licensing Dilemma In India’s Digital Economy

Aayush Khanna, Shatrupa Sharma

Cross-licensing in AI boosts innovation but risks foreclosure in India’s markets

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SLR Forum

The ICJ's Advisory Opinion and the Enduring Triad of Environmental Injustice

Poorva Sharma and Vasujit Dubey

The ICJ’s 2025 climate Advisory Opinion through a TWAIL lens.

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Abhishek Punetha

Micro-Dilutions and Administrative Resistance to RTI: An Analysis of Procedural Subversion

January 9, 2026

Chan Wing Cheong, Siddharth Narrain

Scholars in Conversation: Chan Wing Cheong with Siddharth Narrain

December 23, 2025

Atreyee Majumder

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

December 14, 2025

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Stanley Yeo, Nikita Ahalyan

Scholars in Conversation: Stanley Yeo with Nikita Ahalyan

January 16, 2026

Aayush Khanna, Shatrupa Sharma

Bridging Innovation And Competition: The Cross-Licensing Dilemma In India’s Digital Economy

January 19, 2026

This piece argues that while cross-licensing agreements encourage innovation, they risk market foreclosure through data control and AI integration. Since India lacks clear technical standards, current assessments are inconsistent. The authors propose an "ability, incentive, and effects" framework to evaluate these agreements.

Lianne Lucia D'Souza

The Right to Breathe as a Constitutional ‘Essential’

December 30, 2025

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

Poorva Sharma, Vasujit Dubey

The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion and the Enduring Triad of Environmental Injustice

January 21, 2026

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

December 15, 2025

Sumedha Edara

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

IJLT Editorial Team

AI in the Everyday in India – A Socio-Legal Workshop

January 23, 2026

The workshopwas held at the NLSIU Campus on 10th January 2026, bringing together scholars across disciples to holistically understand how AI operates and influences the everyday lives of people. This event was reported by Divyansh Bhansali, Samik Basu, Devanshi Ganta, Avanthika Venkatesh, Nethra J, and Sanchi Deshpande from the IJLT Editorial Team.

Malavika Krishnan*

Trimming the Edges, Tearing the Core: Electronic Evidence and Definitional Tensions in Arjun Panditrao and the BSA

January 20, 2026

Abhinav Ravi

Between Platforms and Public Law: A Case for Interoperability

December 22, 2025

Vishno Sudheendra*

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

October 13, 2025

Manav Pamnani

Between Innovation and Safeguards: Analysing SEBI’s 2025 Algorithmic Trading Circular (Part II)

February 1, 2026

In the context of SEBI introducing a new algorithmic trading framework, this part continues the analysis undertaken in Part I. It demonstrates how, despite a meticulously designed framework, negative implications persist in practice. These include compliance difficulties, absence of systemic resilience stipulations, stifling of the open-source innovation ecosystem, and ignorance of the behavioural dimension of retail investors. Considering these potential consequences, this part conceptualises a model that serves as a possible judicial checklist or a set of legislative guiding principles to guide future law-making or the passage of judicial decisions. The objective of this model is to propose changes to the introduced guidelines to address the identified drawbacks and align India's framework with international best practices. This part of the piece thus moves beyond doctrinal assessment and offers a reform-oriented framework that bridges regulatory intent and market reality.

Manav Pamnani

Between Innovation and Safeguards: Analysing SEBI’s 2025 Algorithmic Trading Circular (Part I)

February 1, 2026

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

Prof. (Dr.) Ajar Rab

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

December 20, 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