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Jurisprudence Of Feminism in Law Schools
By Supriya Yadav The current essay is an attempt to analyse whether by incorporating feminist jurisprudence, as a separate and compulsory subject in law schools would lead to internalization of a gender just society. With the introduction of study of feminist jurisprudence in the curriculum an active change can be foreseen in a society, which…
Unfair Laws Against Men — An Analysis
By Dr. Sailaja Petikam In India where marriage is the union between man and woman to get social status in the society and marriage is nothing but procreation and caring of the child. According to Westmark, marriage has been often like an institution made by itself. As there is increase in number of marriages every…
Safe Port Safe Berth
By Capt. A.K. Bansal 120,000 DWT bulk carriers on time charter arrived at nominated port in North Japan in December. When weather deteriorated, strong northerly winds caused her to range against the quay on heavy swell. One fender unit failed and disintegrated. Constant ranging against the unprotected section of the wharf, with continued pressure from…
Examination of Witnesses
By Richa Tomar and Suneet Kumar Dwivedi The adversary system of trial which has been adopted in India is founded on the basis of two vital principles, firstly, that the burden of proof lies on the prosecution to prove the guilt of the accused and secondly, that the accused is presumed to be innocent until…
Hedge Funds
By Shashank Tyagi There is no exact definition to the term “Hedge Fund”. There is neither an industry-wide definition nor a universal meaning for “Hedge Fund”. Generally, hedge funds include fund of funds, private investment partnerships, funds or pools that may invest and trade in many different markets, strategies and instruments such as securities, non-securities…
Domestic Violence Act
For long, the female sex has suffered at the hands of men; the exploitation ranges from physical to intangible abuse like mental and psychological torture. Women have always been treated as a child-bearing machine. Domestic violence is one of the gravest and the most pervasive Human Rights violation. For too long now, women have accepted…
Bio-Fuels in the Indian Aviation Industry
By Utkarsh Bhatnagar Bio-fuel development in India centers mainly around the cultivation and processing of Jatropha plant seeds which are very rich in oil (40%). The drivers for this are historic, functional, economic, environmental, moral and political. Jatropha oil has been used in India for several decades as biodiesel for the diesel fuel requirements of…
Justification Of Death Sentence
By Archit Rajpal, Chanakya National Law University, Patna Ever since man started to live in colonies and evolved the theory of society, the concept of ‘sanction’ took birth which ensured control over the behaviour of man and thus protected interest of the society atlarge. Sanction is defined as a ‘consideration operating to enforce obedience to…
Four Pillars of International Maritime Law
By Capt. A.K. Bansal Here is the corrected text with the scanning errors, OCR glitches, and broken formatting cleaned up while keeping edits to an absolute minimum: Law of Sovereignty of Nations, Law of Freedom of the High Seas, Law of Freedom of Contract, and Legal Personality of a Ship are the four cardinal principles…
Termination Of Pregnancy Due To Rape of a Woman
By C.S. Raghuraman, Legal Advisor, Hyderabad Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 (Known as ‘The MTP Act) in Indian Law which declares that ‘Where any pregnancy is alleged by the pregnant woman to have been caused by rape, the anguish caused by such pregnancy shall be presumed to constitute a grave injury to the mental…