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Scholars in Conversation: Lucy Reed with Harisankar K Sathyapalan

Lucy Reed, Harisankar K Sathyapalan

In this interview on the state of arbitration today, international arbitrator Lucy Reed argues that the performance of Indian courts in the realm of arbitration has been improving, the asymmetry in investor-state arbitration is not as marked as many claim, and age should play a role in the selection of arbitrators. 

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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

IJLT Blog

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

Vishno Sudheendra

Exploring how the ‘Market-Dilution’ theory shapes the debate on AI and copyright law.

NLSBLR Blog

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

Anubhuti Raje

HPCL v. G.R. Engineering: Blurring the lines between severability and modification.

NLSIR Online

Thickening the 'Chill': Expanding the Chilling Effect Doctrine through Kunal Kamra v Union of India

Arnav Mathur

Redefining the legal doctrine of the 'chilling effect' on speech

SLR Forum

Why Is There a Price to Freedom?

Tanishq Desai

A Bourdieuan critique of the system of cash bail

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Kanika Gauba

Haemopolitics: Blood and the Question of Community

October 10, 2025

Mitra Sharafi, Kunal Ambasta

Scholars in Conversation l Mitra Sharafi with Kunal Ambasta

July 30, 2025

Rahul Hemrajani, Riddhi Alok Puranik, Shristy Chhaparia, Tvisha Vasudevan

A New Ranking System for Indian Legal Journals

July 14, 2025

Harisankar K Sathyapalan, Lucy Reed

Scholars in Conversation: Lucy Reed with Harisankar K Sathyapalan

November 10, 2025

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Rishit Jain

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

November 10, 2025

This piece argues that India's law criminalizing the consumption of all Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSEAM), while not doing the same for the most abusive forms of Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery (NCII) of adults, is based on a flawed and illogical distinction.

Viraj Thakur, Nida Adeel Mohammed

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

October 13, 2025

Saarthak Agarwal, Praveen Kumar Yadav

The Arbitrator You Didn’t Choose: Party Equality and Joinder in Adavya Projects

October 8, 2025

Arnav Mathur

Thickening the “Chill”: Expanding the Chilling Effect Doctrine through Kunal Kamra v Union of India

October 2, 2025

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Anandaroop Sen

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

December 9, 2025

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

Blurring the Insider/Outsider Distinction? Reflections on the Impact of Digital Networking on Legal Fieldwork in India

November 11, 2025

Mahek Bhatia

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Vishno Sudheendra*

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

October 13, 2025

Introduction The AI training and copyright debate has witnessed pivotal moments with summary rulings in  Richard Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Inc and Bartz v. Anthropic (now settled). In Meta, the court introduced a novel ‘market dilution’ theory, which suggests that AI-generated works, even if non-infringing, could flood the market and indirectly harm original authors. This […]

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

Subham Sourav and Asmi Sharma

Regulating Algorithms and Market Power: The Legal Future of Tech Monopolies and State Influence

September 16, 2025

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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

Introduction Over the last decade, India has sought to establish itself as an arbitration-friendly jurisdiction through the 2015 and 2019 amendments to the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (“the Act”) and institutional initiatives such as the New Delhi International Arbitration Centre. However, judicial practice continues to undermine this legislative intent. This article proceeds on the […]

Pragya Richa Tiwary

Corporate Governance and Minority Protection: Dissecting SEBI’s New LODR Framework for HVDLEs

November 4, 2025

Arihant Sethia, Keshav Kulshrestha

Balancing Flexibility and Investor Protection: A Critical Review of SEBI’s Proposed Reforms for Asset Management Companies

November 1, 2025

Ashish Rawat, Saksham Shivam

Algorithmic Insurance and Resource Pooling: The Missing Piece in SEBI’s AI/ML Governance Framework

October 30, 2025

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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

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