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- The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, vide office order dated 16th of October 2018 has endowed the National Law University and Judicial Academy, Assam with an Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Chair, under the Scheme for Pedagogy & Research in IPRs for Holistic Education & Academia (SPRIHA), to benefit the people of the North-East Region of India in protecting their IPRs. The Chair since its inception in 2018 has concertedly focused its efforts towards conservation and dissemination of IP resources of the North-East Region and has been fervently engaged in capacity building of the creators/producers/owners towards safeguarding their IP rights at the grass-root and also viably commercialize their products, in order to strengthen the nation’s overall IP eco-system.
- The Collection in this Community consists of Newspaper Clippings
- Annual Report of National Law University and Judicial Academy, Assam.
Recent Submissions
Access to Diagnosis and the Right to Healthcare: A Rights-Based Approach to Understanding Section 3(I) of the Patents Act, 1970
(NLUJAA, 2026) Anjali Brahma
Patent law is based on the idea that knowledge can be transformed into property. Patent law seeks to promote innovation and technological advancements by granting exclusive rights over an invention.1 It rests on the idea that granting patent rights will increase private gains to the innovators for their intellectual labour, stimulating innovation.2 It imposes costs on society, as well as benefits.3 This model is effective in industrial contexts, where inventions are often capable of replication and commercial exchange to protect the rights of the interest holder. However, when it is applied in the context of medicine, this framework encounters a fundamental difficulty, as medicine is not merely technical but is closely tied to human dignity, ethical responsibility and public welfare. Medical knowledge goes beyond mere commodification, and involves the discovery of natural relationships, biological processes, and diagnostic correlations.4 As a result, not all forms of medical knowledge can be easily treated as private property.
Menstrual Health Health and Law in India: An Analytical analytical Study
(NLUJAA, 2026) Anisha Baro
Menstruation is a natural physiological process experienced by women and girls across the world. Yet, for millions of women and girls in India, what ought to be an ordinary biological occurrence is rendered an ordeal by persistent stigma, inadequate legal protection, and systemic neglect of menstrual health infrastructure. The right to health, enshrined as an indispensable component of the right to life and personal liberty under Article 21 of the Constitution of India,2 demands that the State not merely refrain from obstructing health but actively ensure conditions conducive to it. Menstrual health, being inseparably linked to the dignity, equality, and bodily autonomy of women and girls, falls squarely within this constitutional guarantee.
The Legal Status of “Producer” Under the GI Regime in India: A Jurisprudential Analysis
(NLUJAA, 2026) Aniket Jana
Geographical Indication (GI), it might seem a fairly easy prima facie, but the question is deceptive in its simplicity. When any consumer goes to buy a can of Darjeeling tea, a pure Kanchepuram silk saree, or a Scotch Whiskey, he or she is implicitly trusting the name on the label and has reason to believe that the product is a genuine one of a specific region or place and is produced by a group of people or community that carries the knowledge, skill and tradition that the product is known for. This belief or trust is the economic and moral foundation of the law of GI. The Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999 of India1 (hereinafter will referred as GI Act) was adopted and enacted on the backdrop of the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), 19942. This agreement has a avowed policy that commits to empowerment in the rural area, while preserving the cultural integrity and the upliftment of economic status of the artisan communities. The Act creates a Sui generis regime that distinguishes between the “registered proprietor”3 and a “authorised user”4. This is the distinction that, prima facie, appears to be a functional administrative device, but upon the jurisprudentiaal scrutiny, this reveals a deep structural gap between formal ownership and substantive entitlement.
Evaluating CSR Implementation Models in the oil and Gas Sector: A Comparative Study of Public and Private Corporations in the North-East
(NLUJAA, 2026) Angkita Das
CSR (CSR) has become one of the core concepts in the context of contemporary corporate governance, as there is an increasing demand that corporations ought to incorporate social, environmental and ethical concerns in their businesses. Historically, corporate law was dominated by a great degree of importance on the principles of shareholder primacy which focused on the understanding that the main responsibility of the corporate managers was toward their shareholders, and that they needed to maximise the wealth of the shareholders. This view was most popularly expressed by Milton Friedman who believed that the social responsibility of business was to make more profits within the law of the land.1 Nonetheless, the growth of corporate operations and their devastating effects on societies and nature has brought more and more criticism toward this tunnel vision.At its essentialism, CSR tries to harmonize the growth in economy and the standards of sustainable growth and social responsibility. Instead of profitability being taken as the only goal of the corporate activity, CSR encourages corporate decision making processes to be integrated with environmental protection, ethical business behavior and welfare of the community. The change is the more notable in the industries that can be defined by the intensive extraction of resources, i.e., the oil and gas industry, in particular. The activities of corporate social responsibility2 within these industries tend to cross over with issues affecting the environmental condition, the rights of the indigenous people and developmental issues affecting the region hence increasing the argument of responsible corporate behavior. As a result, CSR has also become realised as one of the means by which corporations are able to deal with the broader implications of their action in society.
Internet Shutdowns, Content Blocking, and Democratic Backsliding: A Critical Evaluation of IT Act Mechanisms in Maintaining Public Order versus Suppressing Voice,”
(NLUJAA, 2026) Amin Rosul Barbhuiya
The internet has ceased to be a luxury and has become the essential infrastructure of modern democratic life. It is the medium through which citizens communicate with each other and with their governments, through which journalists report on public affairs, through which political parties organise and campaign, through which students learn, through which businesses operate, and through which civil society holds state power accountable . When a government orders the internet to be shut down whether by cutting off access entirely, throttling it to a speed that makes it practically useless, or blocking specific platforms or websites it is not merely disrupting a communications service. It is disrupting the exercise of the most fundamental rights that a democratic constitution guarantees its citizens. It is suppressing speech, preventing assembly, disrupting livelihoods, and degrading the informational environment upon which democratic selfgovernance depends.