[The following announcement is posted on behalf of the Law and Technology Society at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore] The Law and Technology Society (L-Tech) at NLSIU is proud to bring to you our annual conference Consilience, 2015. The theme for this year’s conference is the topic of Net Neutrality. Net Neutrality refers to the idea that all data on...
The Black Money Bill: Piecemeal and Superfluous
[The following guest post is contributed by Dr. Nigam Nuggehalli, who is an Associate Professor at Azim Premji University, Bangalore] The Modi government has been unique among the current and past political dispensations in giving unprecedented political currency to the issue of undisclosed foreign assets of Indian residents. The so called black money issue, always simmering under the surface in...
2nd GNLU – ONGC International Essay Competition on International Contracts
[The following announcement is posted on behalf of the Gujarat National Law University (GNLU)] The 2nd edition of the GNLU – ONGC International Essay Competition on International Contracts is being organized for the year 2015 on the theme “Identifying and Comparing the trends in International Contract Laws and Probing the Critical Issues for Multinational Contracting Parties”. The essay...
Labour Market Reforms
The Government has donned the mantle of reforming labour laws, with this being one of several measures to ease the doing of business in India. Recent news reports indicate concrete proposals for reform in various labour legislation (here and here). On the academic front, a new paper “How Should India Reform Its Labour Laws?” by Simon Deakin and Antara Haldar explores the issue from a law and...
Investor-State Dispute Settlement In India
[The following guest post is contributed by Aakarsh Narula, who is a lawyer and currently working as a Legislative Assistant to a Member of Parliament from Hyderabad] Introduction The 1965 Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States (“ICSID Convention”), for the first time, created an international forum for resolution of disputes between...
8th Annual NLSIR Symposium on Competition Law
[The following announcement is posted on behalf of the National Law School of India Review] The National Law School of India Review (NLSIR) – the flagship journal of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore is pleased to announce the VIII NLSIR Symposium on Competition Law scheduled to be held on May 2-3, 2015 at the International Training Center (NLSIU), Bangalore...
Integrated Form for Company Incorporation
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has with effect from today prescribed a new Form INC-29 for incorporation of companies, and it integrates several requirements that were earlier required to be filed separately. The integrated form as well as an instruction kit can be accessed on MCA’s website (here). The purpose for the form has been stated as follows: EForm INC-29 deals with the single...
Proposed Amendments to Arbitration Law
[The following guest post is contributed by Shriya Jain, Fourth year student and Param Pandya, Fifth year student at the Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The authors can be contacted at [email protected] and [email protected]. respectively] This post covers the developments which triggered the Law Commission of India to submit a Supplementary Report to the 246th...
Application of Part I on Arbitration Agreements preceding BALCO
[The following guest post is contributed by Gunjan Chhabra, who is a practicing advocate in various courts of Delhi and is currently working with Rajani, Singhania & Partners. She can be reached at [email protected]] The judgment of the Supreme Court in Bharat Aluminium Co. v. Kaiser Aluminium Technical Services Inc[1] (BALCO) made it abundantly clear that Part I of the Arbitration...
GIFT City: A New Chapter in the Indian Financial Sector: Part 2
[The following guest post is contributed by Surbhi Jaiswal of Vinod Kothari & Co. The author can be contacted at [email protected]. This is a continuation from the first part, which is available here] Slew of Regulations 1. Foreign Exchange Management (International Financial Service Centre ) Regulations, 2015 To operationalize the IFSC, a notification under the Foreign Exchange...
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