The linguistic region of Mithila has been one of India's many cultural ‘Others'. Part of the erstwhile Presidency of Bengal, Mithila's intellectual identity was largely subsumed by larger cultural region of Bengal. Before the Indian independence in 1947, Mithila's local intellectuals demanded...

Today's mainstream international law scholarship (MILS) is concerned primarily with the issue of its scientificity. Th is brings us to the larger epistemological questions of linear modernity, narratives of circular progress, role of colonisation and rejection of pre-science. International law...

The metaphor intimate enemy best captures the changing nature of international law vis-à-vis nations. Intimate enemy is a useful heuristic device that could be deployed to capture legal concepts of indeterminacy, dialectics, and reformulation within international law. In order to prove this...

As the colloquial name for cut flowers as “blood flowers” implies, the outsourced production of “blood flowers” is plagued by negative externalities, including child labor, health risks, soil and water pollution, sexual exploitation of women, and unfair distribution of water resources...

Legal positivism is the Jurisprudential debate, primarily located with the writings of Austin, which gained ground after his death. This theory is all about keeping law separate from morals, with certain explanation to sovereign, laws, society, normativity et al. But long before Austin it was...