Introduction The terms of service governing digital platforms and software-as-a-service products have become among the most read and least understood contractual instruments in contemporary commercial life. More significantly, they are
Introduction The enforceability of post-employment restrictions in India represents one of the most practically consequential and judicially unsettled areas of Indian contract law. The technology sector’s explosive growth, the proliferation
Introduction Few provisions of Indian contract law have generated as sustained and contested a body of litigation as Section 74 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872. The question of when
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