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Environmental Impact Assessment Notifications and Judicial Scrutiny: When Procedural Shortcuts Undermine Substantive Protection

Introduction The environmental impact assessment process has occupied an uneasy place in Indian environmental governance for nearly three decades. Mandated under the Environment Protection Act 1986 and operationalised through successive

Articles Environmental Law

Carbon Credit Markets in India: Regulatory Framework Under the Energy Conservation Amendment Act and the Integrity Problem

Introduction India’s formal entry into structured domestic carbon trading with the Energy Conservation (Amendment) Act 2022 and the subsequent Carbon Credit Trading Scheme 2023 represents a significant inflection point in

Articles Cyber Law

Surveillance Technology and Privacy: Legal Framework for Spyware Deployment, Pegasus Fallout, and the Absence of a Wiretapping Reform

Introduction The Pegasus spyware controversy of 2021 exposed, with unusual clarity, the structural inadequacies of India’s surveillance oversight framework. When the Forbidden Stories consortium and Amnesty International’s Security Lab published

Articles Cyber Law

Vulnerability Disclosure Policies and Bug Bounty Programs: Legal Protections for Ethical Hackers Under Indian Law

Introduction Security research is a public good. The identification and disclosure of software vulnerabilities before malicious actors exploit them protects individuals, organisations, and governments from harm. Ethical hackers, penetration testers,

Articles Cyber Law

Phishing, Vishing, and the Bank Liability Question: Apportioning Loss Between Financial Institutions and Individual Victims

Introduction The proliferation of digital financial services in India has been one of the defining economic achievements of the past decade. The Unified Payments Interface, launched in 2016, processed over

Articles Cyber Law

Social Media Intermediary Liability After IT Rules 2021: Where Grievance Redressal Mechanisms Have Succeeded and Failed

Introduction The regulation of social media intermediaries has been one of the most contentious legal developments in Indian cyberlaw in the present decade. The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital

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