Insights

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 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 terms? For ...

8 OCT 2026

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

-Amishi 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 State befo...

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

The Suit That Was Six Years Too Late: What the Supreme Court’s Latest Ruling Tells Us About the Art of Knowing When a Case Is Dead
-N. Asha Devi v. R. Aravind Kumar 2026¹

-Megha Agarwal Introduction Every trial judge lives in fear of this moment; every defendant secretly hopes for it. It happens when a plaint hits the file and the facts, on their face, tell a story that the law has already shut the door on. The question is...

24 SEP 2026

Regulatory Oversight or a Deliberate Exemption of Applications by Operational Creditors

-Anusrea Goswami Introduction On 11 March 2025, the Securities and Exchange Board of India took what appeared to be a decisive step toward closing an informational asymmetry in Indian capital markets. By amending Regulation 2(1)(n) of the Prohibition of I...

17 SEP 2026