COASTAL REGULATION ZONE – RAGHAV PARTHASARATHY & VIKAS GAHLOT Teaching Associates, CEERA-NLSIU Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, (‘EPA’ hereafter), was enacted pursuant to the decision that was taken at the United Nations Conference on Human Environment which was held at the Stockholm in June, 1972. An urgent need to enact a general legislation to address the […]Read More
COASTAL REGULATION ZONE VIOLATIONS IN KERALA – ATIKA CHATURVEDI II Year Student, National University of Study and Research in Law, Ranchi What has been in dispute for years, finally reached a conclusion. Albeit a bit astonishing, the Supreme Court ordered the demolition of the 4 high-rise buildings located in Maradu, Kerala. The events leading to […]Read More
COP 25: AGENDAS, DIFFERENCES AND THE FATAL OUTCOME – SUDHANVA KUMAR JM I Year Student, OP Jindal Global Law School The signing of the Paris Agreement, was an awakening call for the world to rectify the over emission of Carbon and our ill-treatment towards the environment. The reports submitted by the IPCC suggest human activities […]Read More
CASE COMMENT: JITENDRA SINGH v. MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT & ORS. Supreme Court of India Civil Appeal No. 5109 of 2019, decided on 25.11.2019 – VIKAS GAHLOT, TEACHING ASSISTANT, CEERA, NLSIU This decision of the Supreme Court of India reaffirms the accepted theory of “Commons”, which forms the basis of environmental protection and law. The bench […]Read More
PLAGIARISM DETECTION: ISSUES OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT – RAGHAV PARTHASARATHY, Teaching Associate and Advocate, National Law School of India University INTRODUCTION Research or academic progress for any individual is mainly dependant on his writing. From the past few years, due to exponential increase in the usage of internet and the contents uploaded, authors are finding easy […]Read More
STEEL SCRAP RECYCLING POLICY, 2019 PRIYADARSHINI VENKATESH & NAYANA JM Students, School of Law, Christ (Deemed to be University) Introduction The Ministry of Steel recently passed the Steel Scrap Recycling Policy of 2019 which promotes the establishment of Metal Scraping Centers in India which facilitate recycling of ferrous, non-ferrous and other non-metallic scraps. The […]Read More
RUSSIA DISCOVERS FIVE ISLANDS – WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR THE CLIMATE CRISIS? – LIANNE LUCIA D SOUZA As the world witnessed a record-high in temperatures this summer, the realization that climate change is a real and existential threat dawned upon many a skeptical soul. But the message of climate change has never been clearer […]Read More
The African Great Green Wall Initiative – A beacon of hope to reverse the imminent impact of Climate Change Sharon Mathew, Associate Litigator Legal Initiative for Forests and Environment (LIFE) The 3,860km arc like land mass lying to the immediate south of the Sahara desert and stretching east-west across the breadth of the African continent, […]Read More
FAHEEMA SHIRIN R.K. vs. STATE OF KERALA & ORS. [1] – Rohith Kamath and Parikshit Chaturvedi Introduction- In the present era of enhanced digital use, with internet usage moving beyond the urban milieu and penetrating the rural belts of the nation, thus bridging the urban-rural digital divide, the estimated number of internet users in India […]Read More
CHANGE IN FOREIGN LAW: WHETHER FORCE MAJEURE? ROHITH KAMATH, ADVOCATE & CS, REX LAW CHAMBERS, BENGALURU With the rise in Globalization, there has been not merely a traverse in the Economic Contours of a Country, albeit, it brought forth the expansion, nay! I’d say Explosion, of all other factors that regulate, affect or induce the […]Read More
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