Insights

Legal Implications of Reforms in Testamentary Succession Procedure

– Aaryan Veer This note examines whether the omission of Section 213 of the Indian Succession Act, 1925 strikes an appropriate balance between procedural equality, accessible estate administration and safeguards against disputed wills. The Repealing...

27 OCT 2026

Beyond the Token: Rethinking Ownership, Copyright and Regulation in the NFT Economy

– Amishi Shukla The legal difficulty with non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) is not that they are difficult to define. It is that the word ownership means something radically different on a blockchain from what it means in property law. An NFT can be uniq...

26 OCT 2026

ISDS and Climate Action: Can States Be Sued for Going Green?

– Amishi Shukla The energy transition creates an uncomfortable paradox for international investment law. States are increasingly required to dismantle or restrict fossil-fuel activities to meet climate commitments, yet many of those activities are p...

13 OCT 2026

ExxonMobil v. Netherlands: Who Pays for the End of Groningen?

-Amishi Shukla The Groningen gas field was once central to the Netherlands’ energy system. It is now at the centre of a different question: what happens when a State decides that an economically valuable project can no longer continue on its existing term...

8 OCT 2026

ISDS Without a Constitution: The Fragmented Architecture of International Investment Law

-Amishi Shukla International investment law has an unusual constitutional problem: it has courts without a single code, rights without a uniform catalogue, and obligations without a central legislature. An investor from one State can challenge another Sta...

7 OCT 2026

The Strait of Hormuz: The Shipping Chokepoint That Holds Global Trade Hostage

-Umakantha V Between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran, there is a channel barely 33 kilometres wide at its narrowest point[1]. One-fifth of the world’s daily oil consumption passes through this point on its way from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oma...

1 OCT 2026