The precautionary principle is one of the most contentious principles in contemporary international legal developments. The very fact that it is a principle of international environmental law has been questioned by many legal scholars. However, this does not take away the fact that the...

Privatization of public corporations is often fraught with the dichotomy of potential efficiency gains in production and management on one hand and possible damage to some of the safeguards and benefits available to their employees, stakeholders and consumers that are based on public law...

Drug Regulation has been the focus of several recent policy reform efforts in India, starting with the Mashelkar Committee Report in 2003 to the most recent report of the Ranjit Roy Chaudhary Committee in 2013. Nevertheless, the regulatory structure continues to be plagued with several...

Drug Regulation has been the focus of several recent policy reform efforts in India, starting with the Mashelkar Committee Report in 2003 to the most recent report of the Ranjit Roy Chaudhary Committee in 2013. Nevertheless, the regulatory structure continues to be plagued with several...

The burgeoning generic drugs and pharmaceuticals sector in India is one of the foremost industrial sectors of the new economy in India along with the IT sector. The growing manufacturing capacity of the health sector in concomitants with the aggressive international expansion strategies through...

The SPS Agreement in the WTO gives legal validity to the CODEX standards. Since the developed countries have been at the forefront of setting the food standards in the CODEX, the developing countries have been increasingly engaged in the CODEX, and also in the WTO, with an objective to increase...