Introduction The doctrine of frustration has always occupied an uneasy position in contract law. Its function is to provide relief where supervening events, unforeseen at the time of contracting, render
Introduction The global disruptions wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic forced corporate lawyers, dealmakers, and courts across jurisdictions to confront a question that had long lurked at the edges of merger
Introduction The unfair contract terms problem in Indian law has a curious design flaw: the party most likely to be trapped in an exploitative standard-form contract is often not the
Introduction The terms of service governing an Indian user’s interaction with a digital platform can run to fifty pages of dense legal prose. The user, if she reads them at
Introduction Smart contracts represent one of the most legally provocative innovations of the past decade. The term, coined by Nick Szabo in 1994 and realised through the development of the
Introduction The deployment of artificial intelligence in commercial transactions has advanced at a pace that outstrips the doctrinal assumptions embedded in contract law. When an AI system negotiates terms, generates
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic forced Indian courts to engage with force majeure and frustration doctrine more intensively than at any time since the partition-era commercial disputes of the 1940s and
Introduction The Tenth Schedule of the Indian Constitution, introduced by the Fifty-Second Constitutional Amendment in 1985, was a response to a specific pathology of India’s post-Emergency political landscape: elected legislators
Introduction On 10 January 2020, the Supreme Court of India delivered a judgment of considerable doctrinal ambition. In Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India, a three-judge bench held that internet
Introduction India’s fiscal federal architecture rests on an elaborate system of constitutional provisions, Finance Commission awards, and executive grants that together determine how resources flow from the Centre to the