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Single Parents: Does the Law Discriminate?
No full textIn this podcast episode, Dr. Sarasu Esther Thomas speaks to host Zubeda Hamid on the legal discrimination faced by single parents and other non-traditional families, and their struggle against the law for even basic procedures such as school admissions and banking
Clean Vehicles Tax Credits under the US Inflation Reduction Act: Friend-Shoring Takes Centre Stage in US Policy
No full textThe international market has recently faced significant disruptions owing to major geo-political events such as the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine War, resulting in unreliable and erratic global supply chains. In a bid to create and secure more sustainable supply networks, countries have adopted ‘friend-shoring’ policies, encouraging their enterprises to source supplies from friendly or allied nations. While the primary objective of these policies is to stabilize global supply chains, these initiatives also stem from a desire to reduce reliance on countries that pose a threat to the geopolitical order.
Although tailored as a market-based strategy, these friend- shoring policies, grounded in nation-based preferences,
represent a retreat from globalisation and pose potential risks to global trade and investment flows. Against this background, the article examines the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022, a key Biden administration initiative, introduced in furtherance of the goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. The IRA, by imposing discriminatory requirements and favouring countries with free trade agreements with the US, positions the US as the primary beneficiary. This has triggered a ripple effect, where other countries have adopted similar discriminatory protectionist measures, exacerbating the threat to global trade and undermining WTO Rules. While the article acknowledges the IRA’s historic commitment to building a clean energy economy, it argues that its discriminatory features are driven by national security and geo-political considerations rather than traditional policy objectives, posing a serious challenge to the integrity of the international economic law system
V.D. Mahajan\u27s Constitutional Law of India, Eighth Edition
No full textThoroughly revised by Dr. Sanjay Jain after 32 years, this edition of V.D. Mahajan\u27s classic will aid students of Constitutional law in their quest to understand and study this magnificent document from a refreshing new perspective.https://repository.nls.ac.in/books/1000/thumbnail.jp
EQUITY AND EXPEDITION IN CONSUMER LAW AND JUSTICE: SOME THORETICAL REFLECTIONS AND PRACTICAL CONCERNS
No full textThis essay examines the notions of consumer in various incarnations as Grahak and Upbhokta, ethical consumer. alienated consumer, and the involuntary consumer in the context of consumer law and justice (CLJ) and consumer education. In many senses, the idea of ‘consumer’ is a recent idea as a market subject both to necessary and unnecessary market evils and modern law enacts ‘consumer protection’ as reform and rationalization of the market leaving intact the mode of production or the structures of the economy. That tension is aggravated by the further questions as to whether consumer rights are human rights. And these may remain marginal parts of conversations about consumer law but constitute almost the whole realms of consumer education, ethics, and justice. The paper focuses, in many ways, on this creative tension
FinTech Lending in India: Taking Stock of Implications for Privacy and Autonomy
No full textIn the last five years, the Fintech sector has thrived in India, with Machine Learning (ML) driven credit scoring based on alternative data, emerging as a growing segment. The credit scoring industry in India needs to be viewed in light of a careful examination of rights, inclusion, appropriate safeguards and discrimination, currently missing from the discourse and practices. In this paper, we explain how ML-based credit scoring works, and the regulatory and commercial factors that have enabled and impeded its growth in India. Through legal and technological analysis, richened by insights from qualitative interviews with entrepreneurs and practitioners, we provide a detailed picture of the credit scoring sector, and highlight its spillover privacy and predatory impacts in India
The Missing Theory for Regulation and Law Making: Women in Corporate Leadership
No full textWhile enough ink has been spilled debating boardroom gender diversity, there is little analysis from a regulatory standpoint in relation to the divergence found in legal strategies across countries. It is this gap which this article seeks to address. In doing so, the article explores the nexus between the rationales and the policy approaches/legal strategies adopted by countries, through the specific comparative examples of Norway and the United Kingdom. This methodology, akin to reverse engineering, helps to explain what determines a country\u27s choice for a mandatory quota or discretionary targets. While offering this explanation, the nuances of hard law versus soft law as policy approaches are examined, specifically within the realm of corporate governance. Next, based on the connections so deduced, an attempt is made to theorise how a legal strategy is derived, and, furthermore, how an optimum strategy can be formulated, although subject to national context