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International Renewable Energy Certificates: An Exercise in Redundancy in the Indian Market?
No full textJoinder and Consolidation in Institutional Arbitration over the last 10 years: Evolution or Revolution?
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Disability and caste bias: A shared struggle
No full textThis article makes a case for the commingling of caste and disability issues to make social justice movements more inclusive. According to the author, “Anchoring the identities of caste and gender with disability helps to comprehend different shades of vulnerability…. The need of the hour is to have an inclusive and progressive coalition of the Dalits and Disabled activists to raise a clamour for de-essentialisation of medicalisation of disability and have compassion and unflinching empathy for the needs of one another.
The Life and Death of the Rs 2,000 Note
No full textIn this analysis of the government’s recent withdrawal of the Rs 2,000 note, Dr. Sukhlata Sen examines the state’s attempts to curb illegal activities and their impact on the Indian economy. Excerpt: “Often the enforcement of a legislation, as we have learnt from our experience of demonetisation, spawns more illegal activities. The ‘deviant’ subculture among those taking to brokering in black markets, counterfeiting and smuggling, may be seen as instances of the legal and the illegal zones fades into each other, where ‘illegal’ as a category becomes increasingly nebulous. Ascribing morality to a crime is to miss the nuances through which illegal activities are acceptable to society. It also ignores the circuitous ways in which economy unfolds and operates where legal agents slide through the porous boundaries of legality.
Unethical Marketing and Advertising to Children: Need for Regulation
No full textThe International Organization for Standardization (ISO) lays emphasis to regulate advertising targeted at children globally as kids are inexperienced and vulnerable to adverse impact of promotions by marketers and such regulations are trailing behind.1 Ensuring a robust regulatory mechanism and its effective enforcement remains the biggest challenge globally. The present paper studies the rationale of advertisements targeting children, assesses the impact of contemporary media advertisements on children and appraises the existing regulatory landscape of children targeted advertisements in India. It pushes for the need for stronger regulatory framework in the emerging markets
VULNERABLE SELLERS AND FAVORED CONSUMERS: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF DISTRIBUTIVE EQUITY IN MULTI-SIDED PLATFORMS
No full textThis paper critically examines the fundamental consumer protection assumption in the European Union context, namely the imbalance of power between consumers and sellers. Focusing on Multi-Sided Platforms, it questions this binary perspective in light of their unique characteristics as intermediaries. Drawing on empirical evidence and case studies of retail platforms such as Amazon, Zalando, and eBay, the paper uncovers the frequent vulnerability of sellers in platform economies, thus complicating the traditional consumer-seller dichotomy. The study identifies a need for nuanced legal frameworks that encapsulate the unique dynamics of platform economies, advocate for comprehensive legality assessments, and highlight the necessity for legislation focused on distributive equity among platform participants. This research underscores the urgency for regulatory and legislative attention to prevent the exploitation of economically dependent sellers by powerful Multi-Sided Platforms
Tunnels as Temples of \u27New Green India\u27: Dominant Narratives of Himalayan Dam Building
No full textThe dramatic unfolding of the Joshimath crisis in Uttarakhand, India, has brought the world’s attention once again to the Himalaya. The contribution of a 520-megawatt hydropower dam to land subsidence is squarely in the spotlight. River valleys with bumper-to-bumper hydropower dam building, especially in the North Western Himalaya, in the past decade and a half or so, have witnessed frequent slope de-stabilisation, landslides and seepages. Unlike the visible dispossession of rural—often adivasi and dalit— populations in reservoir based dam affected areas, even establishing and ‘scientifically’ correlating cascading hazards with human impacts of the ‘invisible’ activity of run-of-the-river dams in the relatively sparsely populated regions of the Himalaya, has been an uphill battle for impacted mountain people. This article examines the conflict around hydropower development in Himachal Pradesh to understand the trajectory of State policy, dominant narratives and responses of affected communities. Tracing the history of such contestation in the 180 MW Bajoli Holi hydropower project in Chamba’s tribal belt Bharmour, we illustrate the complicity of project proponents, regulatory institutions, political actors, scientists and the judiciary in transferring the project’s risks to local inhabitants and the environment. The burden of building fresh evidence, staking claims and posing counter-narratives lies unfairly with the dispossessed as they struggle for safety and survival
Author Exchange
No full textAnthropologist Mukulika Banerjee and political scientist Sushmita Pati have a conversation about their recently published books set in rural Bengal and Delhi’s urban villages, respectively. They situate their analyses of the intersections between democracy, capitalism, urbanization, and globalization in events, relations, and cultures of the everyday. Their exchange offers important insights for how political subjectivities and social ties are differently constituted or, to use Banerjee’s term, “cultivated” in these two settings. The two books offer a fine-grained view of how active citizenship in rural and urban India is refracted through distinct social and institutional structures. India is home to some of the world’s largest cities while more than 900 million people continue to live in the countryside. Its democratic future is therefore inextricably tied to the evolution of political behavior and political economy in both contexts, and, as Banerjee and Pati’s joint response indicates, to how urban and rural dynamics shape each other through (but not only through) migrants and their networks.
Contents:
Review of Mukulika Banerjee’s \u27Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India\u27 by Sushmita Pati
Response from Mukulika Banerjee
Review of Sushmita Pati’s \u27Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi\u27 by Mukulika Banerjee
Response from Sushmita Pati
Joint Commentary from Banerjee and Pat
In-House Counsel, the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence, and Legal Ethics
No full textIn-house counsel have become a large and influential group of lawyers in many jurisdictions. When it comes to transactional and regulatory work, they play a key role. Nevertheless, in-house counsel are also under pressure to create efficiencies in legal work, with tightening legal budgets and ever-growing volumes of regulation. Artificial intelligence (AI) applications are often suggested as a means of creating these cost savings. There is a strong business case for using AI in this context as routinised work lends itself to economies of scale. But what are the implications of using AI, for the in-house lawyer? They must ensure that professional ethical standards are being adhered to. They must also be, effectively, a change manager – encouraging their staff to use the tech options available. And finally, they must be a team player, supporting and supervising the use of tech by both lawyer and non-lawyer employees. This article describes the uses of AI by in-house counsel before examining what it demands of them in their role