The practice of countries demanding discharge of offset obligations as a prerequisite to foreign firms’ participation in major civilian or defence contracts is not new, and recent years in particular have seen a number of countries, both developed and developing, apply offsets and industrial...

Public-private partnerships (PPP's) have been successfully implemented in a large number of basic infrastructure projects and in the provisioning of public services; and this model has been found to achieve better cost-efficiencies and improved delivery of customer services under certain...

This short paper explores certain issues unique to competitive evaluation and award of procurement contracts based on unsolicited proposals relating to public infrastructure projects and concessions, with a focus exclusively on projects that do not involve proprietary intellectual property...

Contracts as we all know is a promise enforceable by law and once a valid contract has been entered into the parties are obliged to fulfill its terms and condition. However in a contract where government is a party a sort of special protection is accorded to the government as it is believed that...

This collection consists of 21 moot court problems drafted and used since 2005 either for selection rounds in an Indian law school or for national moot court competitions. The subject matter of the these moot court problems relates to corporate and commercial laws in India, but usually with a...

India is one of the largest e-Commerce markets, which is expanding with an unprecedented pace. With the increase in the volume and consumer base for the e-Commerce markets there should be a corresponding development of a legal framework which should able to efficiently regulate its functioning...

We study the role of formal institutions of contract enforcement in facilitating investments in small and medium firms(MSME). In a framework where established entrepreneurs can enforce contracts informally using their network ties and hierarchical advantage, we argue that an efficient formal...

In the modern era, the concept of practicing one's trade, profession or business has evolved a long way compared to how it was perceived in the yester years. The law has also as a matter of public policy opposed any interference with respect to an individual's freedom of entering into contracts...

Section 31(8) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 as originally enacted dealt with costs in arbitration. The evolution of the law on the subject led to dissatisfaction. After numerous calls for reforms, the Law Commission of India in its 246th Report sought overhaul of the existing law...