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RLR Volume II Issue I

Rhetoric Concept of Non- Lethal Weapons – Untouched by International Law

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ABSTRACT Establishing national mechanisms to review the legality of new weapons is especially relevant and urgent in view of emerging new weapons technologies. This article asserts the need for a international mechanism to review newly invented weapons that are wrongly termed as non- lethal. Henry Dunant in his famous book ‘A Memory of Solferino’ wrote […]

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Anonymity and Regulations – A Bitcoins Perspective

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Introduction – The Philosophy of Bitcoins In a recent article, Steve Klabnik, self-noted Bitcoin hater, discussed his experiences with Dogecoin.[i] In the same article he also discusses Bitcoins and the philosophies behind both the cryptocurrencies, but the essential part of this article is his final reaction to the virtual ‘coins’, which can be summed up

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Legalizing gambling in India: Tackling match-fixing by the regulation of sports-betting

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INTRODUCTION “Sometimes a 3-1 favourite loses. That’s why they call it gambling, and that’s why they keep flipping over the cards.”[i] -Richard Roeper It has always been the desire of the man to get rich overnight which led to a search for different ways and means, one of which is gambling. Gambling, one of the

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Cost of Correcting Corruption – Does Cancelling 2G Licenses Constitutes Expropriation Actionable Under International Investment Law?

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ABSTRACT While the Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Centre for Public Interest Litigation v. Union of India cancelling the 122 fraudulently issued 2G licences was considered by many as upholding the constitutional fundamentals of equality and equanimity, it has exposed the Indian government to actions under international investment arbitration for disregarding the very

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Juvenile Justice: Is Age limit the right criteria to demarcate a person from getting proper punishment?

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 Abstract It’s really an irony that the most brutal of all the accused in brutal December 16 Delhi gang-rape case, wherein a 23-year-old girl was gang-raped and brutally beaten on a bus, is a juvenile and hence shall get away with a milder punishment of three years in a correction facility. A nationwide sensation erupted

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