Blog Posts
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Climate Change Stewardship in Indian Controlled Companies: Promises and Perils
[Anik Bhaduri is the Commonwealth Scholar and PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore and Rudresh Mandal is a Principal Associate (Corporate & Securities) at Fox & Mandal, New Delhi. This post is part of the IndiaCorpLaw Blog Symposium on ‘Corporate Law and Climate Change: Indian and Comparative Perspectives’.] Over the last decade, securities regulators…
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Admitted, Unpaid, Unremedied: Critiquing the Indian Supreme Court’s Ruling on Arbitral Interest
[Madhvi Sharma is a 4th Year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) student at National Law School of India University, Bangalore.] The Supreme Court of India’s judgment in Union of India v. Larsen & Toubro Limited (2026 INSC 203) raises pertinent issues in relation to arbitral interest. The judgment has been received as a definitive restatement of the law on the contractual bars…
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Sustainable Investment Management as a Route to Addressing Climate Change Issues within Corporate Law – An Indian Perspective
[Akshaya Kamalnath is Associate Professor at ANU Law School. This post is part of the IndiaCorpLaw Blog Symposium on ‘Corporate Law and Climate Change: Indian and Comparative Perspectives’.] Climate change is one of today’s biggest problems (alongside tech disruptions and inequality). As significant actors in society, corporations too must deal with these big problems and hence corporate law and…
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Domesticating India’s International Climate Law Obligation to Regulate the Conduct of its Private Actors through the Companies Act, 2013
[Hemavathi Shekhar is the Founder and Director, Enact Earth Foundation and Gunjan Soni is an Assistant Professor, School of Law, Mahindra University and Co-Lead, Indian Front, World’s Youth for Climate Justice. This post is part of the IndiaCorpLaw Blog Symposium on ‘Corporate Law and Climate Change: Indian and Comparative Perspectives’.] On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered a landmark advisory…
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International Climate Obligations and India’s Public Sector Undertakings
[Arjuna Dibley is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. This post is part of the IndiaCorpLaw Blog Symposium on ‘Corporate Law and Climate Change: Indian and Comparative Perspectives’.] International climate change law is in the midst of a ‘corporate accountability turn’. For years, scholars, policymakers, and advocates concentrated on how treaty law…
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From Paris to the Boardroom: Can Voluntary Corporate Climate Governance Deliver India’s NDCs?
[Raushan Tara Jaswal is an Assistant Professor and PhD Candidate, Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat, Haryana and Post-Doctoral Researcher, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany. This post is part of the IndiaCorpLaw Blog Symposium on ‘Corporate Law and Climate Change: Indian and Comparative Perspectives’.] The highly contentious adoption of the Paris Agreement has been a…
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Climate Change Litigation Against Corporations in the Australian Context – Social, Political, and Economic Factors
[Akshaya Kamalnath is Associate Professor at ANU Law and Kate Ogg is Professor at ANU Law and an Australian Research Council Fellow. This post is part of the IndiaCorpLaw Blog Symposium on ‘Corporate Law and Climate Change: Indian and Comparative Perspectives’.] Climate change has become an important topic in corporate law with the discussion ranging from sustainability (the S…
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Corporate Climate Litigation in India: Traversing the Private-Public Law Divide
[Umakanth Varottil is Professor of Corporate Law at the National University of Singapore. This post is a part of the IndiaCorpLaw Blog Symposium on ‘Corporate Law and Climate Change: Indian and Comparative Perspectives’.] At a global level, litigation has emerged at the forefront in combating the adverse effects of climate change. In one type, claimants assert “horizontal”…
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IndiaCorpLaw Blog Symposium on ‘Corporate Law and Climate Change: Indian and Comparative Perspectives’
[Param Pandya is the Quadrature Climate Foundation Fellow in Climate Change and Corporate Law at the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore] Climate change is no longer a peripheral concern for corporate law — it sits at the centre of how companies are governed, financed, and held accountable. In India,…
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The Reach of Indian Competition Law in Addressing No-Poach Agreements
[Varuni Jha is a fourth-year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) student at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow] Competition enforcement in India follows a set script, concerning itself with price-fixing, bid-rigging, and abuse of dominance in product markets. Labour markets sit outside that script almost entirely, and no-poach agreements, or arrangements between competing employers not to…