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To Ban or Not to Ban – Children's Digital Rights versus Social Media Restrictions

Rashi Mitra

This essay evaluates the global push for social media bans, weighing the arguments for and against them while examining how such restrictions impact children's digital rights.

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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 on the Online Gaming Rules and DABUS Patent Application

NLSBLR Blog

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

Dhiren Gupta

Paradox of assignment of creditor's assignment of corporate debt and enforcement of personal guarantee.

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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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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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We present the University blog and five student journal blogs, where leading scholarship from around the world is edited by our faculty, researchers and students. To submit your work, please refer to the submission guidelines provided for each blog.

Noor Ameena

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

April 24, 2026

Zakeria Mohammed Yacoob, Arvind Narrain

Between Lectures | Interview | Justice Zakeria Mohammed Yacoob with Arvind Narrain

April 21, 2026

Sudhanshu Kumar, Harsha N, Garima Gupta

Investor Protection Reimagined: Ombudspersons, Charters, and the Limits of Redress

April 10, 2026

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Rashi Mitra

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

May 8, 2026

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Viraj Thakur, Nida Adeel Mohammed

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

May 3, 2026

This essay critiques the Supreme Court’s decision in Sanjit Singh Salwan v. Sardar Inderjit Singh Salwan for allowing estoppel to uphold an arbitral award in a dispute involving public charitable trusts, despite such disputes being non-arbitrable under §92 CPC. It argues that estoppel cannot validate what is legally a nullity, nor override statutory limits or public policy embedded in non-arbitrability doctrines. By prioritizing party conduct over jurisdictional invalidity, the judgment risks undermining the structural boundaries of arbitration and creating uncertainty around void awards and compromise decrees.

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

Deepika M G

Regulating the Gig Economy: Is It a State Failure to Address the Market Failure?

March 27, 2026

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Nidah Kaiser

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

May 2, 2026

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

April 27, 2026

Rohit De, Ornit Shani

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

April 27, 2026

Rohit De, Ornit Shani

Denial of Death Penalty Amidst Public Outrage in the RG Kar Hospital Case – Reflections of the Defence Lawyer Post One-Year

April 20, 2026

Senjuti Chakrabarti

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IJLT Editorial Team

A Conversation with Vikas Mahendra

June 1, 2026

In this conversation for the Indian Journal of Law and Technology (IJLT), Sumukhi Subramanian [Editor-in-Chief, IJLT] and Dewanshee Singh [Deputy Editor-in-Chief, IJLT] speak with Vikas Mahendra, NLSIU alumnus and CEO at TERES AI, on the promises and perils of AI in complex dispute resolution. Drawing on nearly two decades of practice across London, Paris, and Singapore with Herbert Smith Freehills, and seven years building legal technology, Vikas brings a rare dual perspective to one of the most consequential questions facing the legal profession today. Vikas also reflects on his recent transition from partnership to full-time legal tech entrepreneurship and the vision behind TERES: a platform built not to replace the dispute resolution lawyer, but to make that lawyer demonstrably more effective.

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April 2026 : IJLT Tech-Law Bulletin

May 7, 2026

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A Conversation with the Founders of Lucio AI : Vasu Aggarwal and Darsan Guruvayurappan

May 6, 2026

Ritesh Karale & Ritaja Chattopadhyay*

The Copyright Play: AI, Section 52, and the Acts of Fair Dealing

March 15, 2026

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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

Introduction Studies published by the School of International Arbitration at Queen Mary University of London (‘SIA’) consistently identify arbitration’s status as a preferred dispute resolution mechanism in cross-border trade. Most recently, in SIA’s 2025 International Arbitration Survey, 48% of respondents preferred arbitration coupled with ADR and a further 39% preferred arbitration alone: the survey summarising […]

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

Avanthika Venkatesh

Two-Stage Approval Process under the IBC: Expedition or Complication?

April 19, 2026

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Devanshi Shukla

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

March 11, 2026

The author examines the Supreme Court of India's 2026 decision in Tiger Global and its implications for the interaction between treaty entitlements and India's General Anti-Avoidance Rule. The judgment, it is argued, marks a decisive doctrinal shift from formal treaty compliance to a substance-over-form approach, reframing the 2016 Protocol's grandfathering clause from an inviolable guarantee to a rebuttable presumption subject to anti-avoidance scrutiny. By embedding GAAR principles into treaty interpretation, the Court subordinates legitimate expectations to domestic anti-abuse frameworks, ultimately conditioning treaty benefits on demonstrable commercial substance over mere formal compliance.

Anushka Aggarwal

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

February 10, 2026

Sanyukta Chowdhury, Amit Chowdhury

The Monetary and Fiscal Mechanism

August 25, 2025

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

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