By Dewesh Kumar Vinod Introduction This article scrutinizes the manner in which the farm bills were passed in the Rajya Sabha, and for the same, adopts the perspective of an element of the public choice theory, the theory of transaction costs as stipulated by Jonathan R. Macey. The transaction cost theory suggests that the use … Continue reading An Act of Procedural Defiance : Farm Bills through the lens of The Transaction Cost Theory

By Ishika Garg and Sukrut Khandekar The nail that sticks out gets hammered down. Fitting into the society’s traditional framework of the gender binary can lead to grave anxiety and distress amongst the LGTBQIA+ community. Moreover, gender non-conformists are usually ridiculed or discriminated against. In a recent effort to eliminate such prejudice, Japan’s Mie Prefecture … Continue reading A Lock, A Key, A Legislation : Making a Case Against Outing

By Aman Sharma and Hrithik Merchant The severance of traditional notions of interrelation between marriage and parenthood has precipitated in augmenting adoptions by single parents.[1] Concomitantly, the ban on commercial surrogacy in India has fostered adoptions as an alternative for single parents.[2] Between 2016 and 2019, there were 331 domestic adoptions by single parents in … Continue reading Revisiting the Heteronormativity in Single Parent Adoption Laws

By Rajat Sinha and Sahil Artwani Introduction The ‘gig economy’ has been under scrutiny for bypassing labour laws across the globe. A gig economy is categorized by popularity of temporary and mobile jobs and businesses which tend to recruit independent contractors and freelancers rather than full-time workers.[1] The archaic system of full-time employees who seldom … Continue reading Customer Reviews, The Gig Economy and Labour Protection

By Khushi Joshi The refugee crisis of the liberal state accelerated by increase in right wing populism in governance has resulted in attempts to redefine identities of the imagined community of the state and the ‘other’ and the emerging threat of pursuing this agenda through liberal institutions such as the judicial bureaucracy. The recent order … Continue reading The Supreme Court’s Interim Order in the Rohingya Deportation Case : A Lost Opportunity

By Anshul Dalmia Introduction: Exploring the ‘Other’ Side Intellectual Property Rights have been praised and appreciated for their sincere efforts towards the protection of knowledge and original thought.[1] However, for the law to preserve these rights, it is imperative to probe the construction of knowledge which is sought to be protected.[2] This article attempts to … Continue reading A Feminist Critique of Copyright Law: Through The Lens of Marginalization