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United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and Corporate Law: the Struggle for Human Rights Integration
No full textThe article examines the evolution and impact of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), focusing on the pivotal role played by the Ruggie Process, spearheaded by Professor John Ruggie. It Highlights the significance of the Corporate Law Tools Project (CLTP), which analysed corporate and securities laws across thirty-nine jurisdictions to promote human rights. Despite extensive consultations and findings underscoring the potential of corporate law to address human rights issues,the UNGPs incorporate limited references to corporate law, reflecting a compromise to achieve broad consensus without imposing binding obligations on corporations. The article tries to highlight the possible reasons for the exclusion of comprehensive corporate law measures
Is a Parota like a Roti?
No full textIn the public imagination, tax law occupies a strange binary – too boring for words or too silly for a sensible discussion. For the boring version, we can see debates on the taxation of multinationals, which some intrepid person has captured in the idea of the ‘two pillars’ approach to global taxation. The construction terminology, however, has not helped. Until GST 2.0 came along, the silly version received its sustenance from classification disputes. These disputes relate to the category under which a particular good or service ought to be taxed. Last week, the government rationalised the rates in such a way that goods and services similar to each other carry the same rates, and therefore, many classification disputes are now irrelevant
Crime, Clemency and the Grey Space of Convicts’ Rights
No full textIn July, the Supreme Court, in Shubhashankar v State of Karnataka, brought legal proceedings to an end in a sensational case that must be familiar to the residents of Bengaluru. This was the case of a law student called Shubha Shankar, who murdered her fiancée with the help of her boyfriend and other accomplices, because her family had pushed her into an arranged marriage. The case resembles a whodunnit, and someone even made a movie out of it, called Ring Road, since that was the location of the murder
On Non-Conventional Marks and ChatGPT Evidence: A Case Comment on Christian Louboutin SAS v The Shoe Boutique (2023)
No full textBetween Utterance and Action: The Shaping of Social Accountability in India’s Coastal Commons
No full textJudicial orders, management plans, and zonation maps prepared in relation to environmental laws encode the jurisprudence on accountability. Laws such as India’s Coastal Regulation Zone Notification (CRZ Notification) 2019 serve as sources of discourse on use and access rights. Such laws are crucial in shaping developmental decisions and democratic practice along the coast. As an environmental law that contains detailed articulation on judicially mandated planning, mapping, and public access to regulatory information, the CRZ Notification 2019 offers a good case to understand the relation between legal discourse and citizens’ agency. Citizens of the state of Tamil Nadu representing its small-scale fishing (SSF) communities have engaged with coastal regulatory jurisprudence by harnessing select dialogic utterances, both in text and in case law, towards specific outcomes of social-ecological governance. We examine official documents, secondary records, environmental practices, and ethnographic accounts pertaining to CRZ mapping in Tamil Nadu to critically interrogate the conditions whereby formal discourse and practice have produced social accountability over coastal commons. This paper concludes that the outcomes of the interplay between the doctrinal utterance on social accountability and its pragmatic practice depends on citizens’ capabilities to leverage diverse institutions and practices of horizontal accountability in struggles over transparency in environmental governance
System Glitch: Making Legal Sense of Technology\u27s Perils
No full textA few days ago, I read an article about the disruption at Delhi’s airport because of a malfunctioning air traffic control system. Despite reading the article twice, I couldn’t understand either the problem or the solution. The only thing I gathered is that for people like me, the technology in air navigation systems is a black box. If something goes wrong, we will neither understand how it went wrong nor understand what can be done to fix the problem. Vast swathes of our lives are now hostage to the mysteries of technology
The Yogyakarta Principles and the Yogyakarta Principles plus 10: Their relevance to the LGBTI struggle
No full textThe book addresses the complexities of LGBTI law through in-depth analysis of national and international legal frameworks, covering topics such as anti-discrimination laws, marriage and partnership rights, adoption, identity recognition, and protections against violence. It also highlights significant jurisprudence from various legal systems, including those of the UN and European institutions like the EU and the European Court of Human Rights
Sky
No full textA peer-reviewed ethnographic poem, it is a reflection on the travel of the soul across time and in and out of bodies, a theory that is well regarded in the corpus of Hindu philosophy. Formally, the poem is an attempt to excavate the skeleton of the Indian poet/scholar/translator A K Ramanujan\u27s poem Chicago Zen
Supreme Court Holds the Line against Executive-Legislative Attempts to Control Tribunals
No full textA brief history of the Union’s repeated attempts to change the tribunals law—and how the Court has addressed this executive cree
As India’s Groundwater Runs Dry, Calls for Reform Grow
No full textThe worsening water crisis highlights an urgent need for better groundwater governance in India