This paper examines the growing role of Indian lawyers in the transformation of Indian trade policy through the development of trade-related legal capacity. By trade-related legal capacity we mean, broadly, the ability of a country to use law to engage proactively in the development and defense...

Cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in India are of recent vintage as they began in right earnest only since its economy was opened up in 1991. While the initial thrust was by way of inbound acquisitions by foreign companies, the later period witnessed frenetic activity by Indian...

There are one hundred eighty one women legal professional registered as advocates in Central Bar Association of Lucknow in list of valid voters, 2012 as against around three thousand five hundred thirty one male counterparts. Her population of one against twenty not only creates a kind of a...

Sometime back a lot of buzz was created when Actress Rhea Chakraborty had engaged Adv. Satish Manishinde as her defense counsel in the Sushant Singh Rajput suicide case. She was being attacked and criticized by media and social media for hiring an expensive celebrity lawyer like Mr. Manishinde....

With a view to giving the entrepreneurs the necessary regulatory support, India enacted its first law on limited liability partnerships in December 2008, after almost two years of debate. An LLP, as a hybrid business form, coalesces the separate legal existence and limited liability attributes...

This study is about hierarchy within the legal profession – how it presents itself, how it is retained, and how it is combated. The socio-legal literature on this subject is rich, with many roots tracing back to Professor Marc Galanter's famous early 1970s article on the ‘Haves' and...

What should be the ideal method to calculate the judge strength in India? Time and again the policymakers in the country have been confronted with this question. The earlier methods such as the judge to population ratio and the rate of disposal technique have been criticized for being...

We estimate the causal effects of exposure to communal violence during early childhood on pretrial detention rates. We exploit novel administrative data on judgments and detailed resumes of judicial officers born during 1955-1991. Our baseline result is that judges exposed to communal violence...