[By Rakshit Sehrawat, a student of Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar, and Shreya Tripathi, a student of Maharashtra National Law University, Nagpur] ‘Territorial Integrity’ is one of the most invoked phrases in the International Legal System. It is recognized as one of the linchpins of the International legal world, grounded on the fundamental concepts of ‘Non-Intervention’ principle. Since the end of the World War II, the international legal community has often been confronted with the…
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WHATSAPP v. THE GOVERNMENT: Whose Line is it anyway?
[By Akshita Singh, a student of National Law University Odisha, Cuttack, and Achyut Tewari, a student of Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur] General Overview The ongoing tussle between WhatsApp Inc. (hereinafter, “WhatsApp”) and the Government of India (hereinafter, “Government”) is one among a plethora of disputes involving a tech giant at one hand and a nation’s government at the other. In fact, WhatsApp being at loggerheads with the government or the courts has been a common occurrence globally. Countries…
SELF-DRIVING CARS AND INDIA: A CALL FOR INCLUSIVITY UNDER THE INDIAN LEGAL POSITION
[By Tejas Sateesha Hinder and Ritik Kumar Rath. The authors are students of National Law Institute University, Bhopal] Introductory Remarks Recently, Tesla, the world’s most valuable car company, announced that they will enter the Indian market, and in January 2021, it registered itself with an office in Bengaluru. The concern as of now is not whether self-driving cars are fit for Indian roads, but whether Indian laws are ready to tackle problems associated with self-driving cars.…
THE DARK SIDE OF THE PANDEMIC: INCREASING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
[By Aashi Shah. The author is a student of Pravin Gandhi College of Law .] While the world came to a halt due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, several women had to battle two pandemics at a time. The unanticipated lockdown made it difficult for women to escape households with violent environments. Furthermore, economic losses acted as a catalyst to the increasing violence against women. Additionally, the pandemic resulted in the breakdown of societal…
The UK Supreme Court’s Uber Decision & Status of Gig Workers
[By Aryan Roy. The author is a student of Gujarat National Law University.] “Parties cannot create something which has every feature of a rooster, but call it a duck and insist everybody else recognise it as a duck.” Justice Gray, Re Porter (1989) 34 IR 179, 184 With the growing digitalisation of the goods and service industries, there is a parallel growing dependence on platform technology. Necessarily, this requires a simultaneous expansion in the scope of legislation…