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Concept of International Taxation
Shivam Sharma, a 4th year law student of IME Law College, Delhi NCR. The 21st century World Economy is not only more complicated and dynamic, but highly integrated. National economies have moved closer and become virtually borderless due to rapid movement of resources from one country to another because no country is self-sufficient in all…
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Hong Kong’s Democratic March Against The Chinese Authoritarian Rule
Shreyashi Tiwari (alumnus of National University of Study and Research in Law [NUSRL], Ranchi (Batch 2014-2019) and Gursimran Kaur Bakshi (a fourth year student pursuing honours in Public International Law from NUSRL)In what can be referred to as the Les Misérables moment for the citizens of Hong Kong, the ongoing protest reflects the tyrannical interference…
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Aftermath of NRC: Statelessness and the legal Quagmire that is anticipated
Gursimran Kaur Bakshi, a fourth year student, honours in Public International Law from NUSRL The NRC Exercise With the publication of the final updated list of National Register of Citizens (‘NRC’) on 31st August by the Government of Assam, the lives of many people are dependent on what looks like an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. The…
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The Need To Discard The Uti Possidetis Juris Principle In Contemporary Maritime Delimitation
Aditya Suresh from the National Law University Jodhpur I. UNDERSTANDING UTI POSSIDETIS JURIS IN MARITIME DELIMITATION The uti possidetis juris principle, which literally translates to ‘as you possess under law’, refers to the international law principle whereby the administrative divisions which were present with a State at the time of colonisation, are deemed to constitute…
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Robotic Roguery: Analysing the legality of Autonomous weapons (killer robots) vis-à-vis principles of International Law
Amogh Pareek, third year law student at National Law University Jodhpur, pursuing B.B.A., L.L.B. (hons) course INTRODUCTION The outrage against autonomous weapon systems (“Killer Robots”) is at an all-time high. Recently, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an international ban on Killer Robots, calling their use “morally despicable”. In addition, Mary Wareham, the…
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Assessing the legality of the Unwilling or Unable Doctrine
Faiz Uddin Ahmad, a second year student at the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab pursuing B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) course. INTRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT The Unable or Unwilling Test stems from the broader subject of the States’ Right of Individual and Collective Self Defence by the virtue of Article 51 of the UN Charter and…
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A case more curious than the curious Case Of Benjamin button: The relationship of general principles of law with other sources in Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice
Mohit Khubchandani currently works as a Research Fellow at the United Nations International Law Commission. He is an Advocate at the Supreme Court of India and an International Disputes Resolution Attorney with working experience in International Litigation and International Arbitration with the Government of India and Public International Law policy-making with several United Nations’ agencies…
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COVID 19, Global South and International Law. How will the law treat medicine once the pandemic subsides?
Poorva Bhatia, a third year student at O.P. Jindal Global University pursuing B.A. L.L.B. (Hons) course Adopting a Third World Approach to International Law (TWAIL): Past lessons, Patents and Access to Medicines Internationally, the developments in the field of intellectual property rights and human rights have been largely independent. However, in recent times, the interplay…
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Changes in Foreign Direct Investment Rules, 2020: Is India violating WTO rules?
Mugdha Mohapatra, a fourth year student at National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, pursuing B.A., L.L.B.(Hons) course In April the Ministry of Commerce and Industry released Press Note 3 to amend the FDI policy in order to “curb opportunistic takeovers of companies”. The measures are: i) all investments from countries sharing a land border…
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Israel v/s Palestine: A deceptive peace plan proves to be a trump card for Israel
Deepanjali Jain and Prateek Khandelwal, a second year student at O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat pursuing B.B.A.,L.L.B.(hons) course and a second year student at Chanakya National Law University, Patna pursuing B.B.A., L.L.B.(hons) course respectively INTRODUCTION The famous Israel – Palestine conflict recently reached a new milestone when the United States of America President Donald Trump…
