COVID patent waiver is an interesting but virtually irrelevant debate. If every patent holder tomorrow morning announced “we will not be enforcing any of the patents that we have that relate to COVID vaccines,” you know what would happen to the worldwide manufacturing distribution of...

Right of free speech is the foundation of all modern democracies. In India it is guaranteed as a fundamental right with certain restrictions, one of which is Contempt of Court Act. Contempt powers authorises the judicial authorities to take actions against whoever disrespect judicial officers or...

The process of identifying and interpreting norms of customary international law, while appearing to be primarily based on an inductive analysis of state practice and opinio juris, is sometimes a deductive exercise based on logic and reason. Logic permeates every decision in international law....

Class action litigation has generated a series of recent Supreme Court decisions imposing greater federal court supervision over the prosecution of collective injury claims. This group of cases raises the question whether class action waivers should be permitted on policy grounds. I examine the...

In the context of harmonisation of arbitration law and practice worldwide, to what extent do local legal traditions still infuence local arbitration practices, especially at a time when non-Western countries are playing an increasingly important role in international commercial and financial...

Increasing cross-border commercial exchanges and foreign investments have caused arbitration to become more frequently selected as a dispute resolution option in China. In response to this growing demand, China has taken significant steps to improve its arbitration system. Nevertheless,...

This paper reviews Alice v. CLS Bank’s impact seven years after its issuance and examines the 30 Federal Circuit cases (including their exemplary patent claims) that found eligibility upon Alice challenges. The Alice invalidation rates at the Federal Circuit (79%) and district courts (51.8%)...

As consumers begin to realize the extent to which their biometric and health data are being tracked through wearable devices, new privacy concerns have arisen. These concerns are more than hypothetical as the unregulated sharing and disclosure of biometric and health data may have serious...

Myanmar’s attorneys, judges, law officers, and law teachers are slowly emerging from the isolated world they inhabited during decades of military authoritarianism. Almost a decade ago, the country triumphantly burst into an era of “disciplined” democracy under the leadership of Aung San...

In recent decades, there has been a wide-ranging global movement towards constitutional review. This development poses important puzzles of political economy: Why would self-interested governments willingly constrain themselves by constitutional means? What explains the global shift towards...