GUULR Blog

Written by Vikram Valame. For a millennium, Anglo-American courts provided justice to citizens in the face of government abuse. Their most potent weapons were trials, reasoned decisions, and fair compensation to victims. Today, Americans are losing confidence in a judiciary that has abandoned those first principles. Illegal government actions often escape judicial review completely. When … Continue reading Judicial Legitimacy Depends on Real Civil Rights Enforcement →

Written by Marina Soares da Fonsêca and Prof. Dr. Thiago Oliveira Moreira. The ongoing judgment of the Claim of Non-Compliance with a Fundamental Precept (“ADPF”) 320, a constitutional case before Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court, presents a critical opportunity to resolve a longstanding ambiguity in Brazilian law. At stake is not only the scope of Brazil’s … Continue reading Amnesty or Accountability? Brazil’s Supreme Court Must Decide →

Written by Varun Pandey. INTRODUCTION The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO) was enacted in India with the clear objective of providing a robust, child-centric legal framework against sexual exploitation of minors.1 By setting the age of consent at eighteen, the law reflects an absolute legislative mandate that minors are incapable of … Continue reading BETWEEN CONSENT AND COMPULSION: WHY RECOGNIZING MARRIAGE AS A GROUND FOR ACQUITTAL UNDERMINES POCSO ACT →

Written by Varun Pandey. INTRODUCTION In India, there has always been significant opposition to caste-based reservation laws, with passionate assertions that they signify the demise of meritocracy. Simultaneously, though, the reservation of seats for foreign nationals, non-resident Indians (NRIs), and NRI-sponsored candidates by the majority of educational institutions, including national law universities (NLUs), is overlooked. … Continue reading No Merit in Privilege: The Constitutional Illegitimacy of NRI Quota →

Written by Neeve Anand. Bail as a Constitutional Norm The principal norm of bail, rather than incarceration, pervades pre-trial detention and is firmly embedded within Indian constitutional jurisprudence. Personal liberty under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution has consistently been referred to in upholding the rights of individuals against arbitrary and prolonged deprivations of freedom, … Continue reading Undertrial Detention and the Illusion of Bail in India →

Written by Jayanti Dhingra. Introduction  Climate change is increasingly disrupting air travel, leading to flight delays and increasing operational costs among other challenges.1 Because airlines are major fossil fuel consumers, these corporations contribute to worsening climate change; at the same time, their coastal operations are disrupted by the subsequent rise of sea levels, increased flood … Continue reading Meddling with the Climate? A Key Consideration in Airline Insolvencies  →

Written by Aryan Sharma and Tanya George. INTRODUCTION The diversity present in the modern world has facilitated international travel and migration. As a corollary, such development has made the verification of foreign documentation, particularly at scale, an arduous and labor-intensive process.1 To navigate this issue, countries entered into the Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of … Continue reading The Peculiar Conundrum of Citizenship in India & the Apostille Convention →

 Sofia Chentsova is a junior in the Georgetown University College of Arts & Sciences, with a major in Government and a minor in English. I. INTRODUCTION In the words of the Fourth Amendment, the Constitution guarantees “the right of the people to be secure in their person, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and … Continue reading SUPREME COURT HANDS A WIN TO LAW ENFORCEMENT →

By Zoya Farah Hussain and Pratik Biswal. INTRODUCTION The financial systems of India and the Global South occupy an intermediate position between paper-based traditional banking and credit assessment methodologies driven by artificial intelligence (“AI”). The recent transformation of banks’ credit assessment methods has facilitated a shift from manual, branch-based reviews of paper documents to automated … Continue reading AI CREDIT ASSESSMENT: ANALYZING FUTURE OF LENDING ACROSS INDIA AND OTHER EMERGING ECONOMIES →