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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
E-Consumer Rights in India: An Analysis of the Legal Protection Regime in online Business Transactions
(NLUJAA, 2026) Jeet Kumar Das
Historically, consumer protection has been an essential issue for legal systems around the globe. The conventional model of consumer safety, base donning person dealings in physical stores, has been significantly challenged by the intricacies of the online market. The United Nations Guidelines for Consumer Protection, initially established in 1985 and later updated in 2016, recognize the necessity for a strong framework to protect consumers in the digital landscape1. Likewise, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has provided particular guidelines focusing on consumer protection within the realm of e-commerce. The emergence of the internet and digital technologies has drastically changed how commerce is carried out worldwide. The rise of electronic commerce, often called ecommerce, has transformed conventional business models and created a completely new type of buyer the electronic consumer or e-consumer. India, being among the fastest growing digital economies globally, has experienced an unparalleled rise in online business dealings, highlighting numerous legal challenges that require thorough academic investigation.
Inscribed VS. Negleted: Analysing the Gaps in Unesco’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Framework
(NLUJAA, 2026-08) Jayeeta Paul
Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) represents the living expressions of our identities, evolving as societies grow and adapt. Under the framework of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, UNESCO supports Member States in documenting and preserving practices that communities recognize as integral to their heritage. India’s Periodic Reporting process under the 2003 Convention, have bolstered reporting mechanisms and strengthened community engagement to safeguard traditions for future generations. Intangible Cultural Heritage are living heritages that are passed on from one generation to the next. Generally, these traditions are passed down orally and adopts changes in itself to some extent with the change in time. Intangible Cultural Heritages consists of traditional knowledges, rituals, traditional craftmanship, performing arts, festivals, and oral expressions. All these Intangible Cultural Heritages are not owned by a single individual but rather belongs to a community as a whole
Ease of Doing Business in Northeast India: Legal Analysis of Regulatory and Structural Barriers to Start-up Growth
(NLUJAA, 2026) Jagriti Priyadarshini Saikia
Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) has become an important part of economic governance and in many countries across the world. It refers to the government systems and administrative conditions that help businesses in establishment, operation and closure within a regulatory framework. Governments now increasingly view improvement of the business environment as necessary for helping businesses grow and attracting investment. It is also considered important for supporting business and economic growth. To improve the business environment, the Government of India introduced several legal and administrative reforms. These reforms included amendment of commercial laws, consolidation of labour legislation and digitization of regulatory approvals. The Government also introduced initiatives like the Jan Vishwas Act, 2023 for reducing compliance burden in business activities.
A Transnational Gavel: Magnitsky Sanctions and Whistleblower Protection in BPC Nexus States
(NLUJAA, 2026) Ishani Chatterjee
The term Bureaucratic-Political-Criminal (BPC) Nexus refers to a lasting structural amalgamation of state administrative machineries, political power and organised criminal organisations which transforms the formal state institutions into the channels of illicit accumulation and repression. It is not just breaches of corruption as the BPC Nexus characterises a systemic integration whereby rule-of-law functions (investigation, prosecution, regulation and adjudication) are under subordination to private or partisan interests. In this type of systems legal forms exist that serve merely as instruments; laws, procedures and state agencies serve to defend individual interests, or to cover expropriation, or to put off critics. In modern research other terms (state capture, kleptocracy, criminalisation of the state) are utilised to describe the same trend; theoretically, the key characteristic is the breakdown of institutional integrity and objectivity that the normal checks and balances assume. Legal protection of whistleblowers represents a principal mechanism to maintain the rule of law, institutional transparency, and mobilise domestic accountability structures that are geared towards identifying and preventing corruption and severe rightsviolations. Whistleblowing, as an internal remedy, enhances regulatory integrity and confidence of the population in systems where the reporting individuals are assured of independent investigative authority and impartial courts to act on their complaints. In other jurisdictions organised around a Bureaucratic-Political-Criminal (BPC) nexus, however, the institutional capture of whistleblower protection laws and control systems is often made ineffective by this capture.
A Legal Analysis of the Protection of Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Koch Rajbongshis Under the Intellectual Property Rights Regime
(NLUJAA, 2026) Haripriya Rajbongshi
Cultural heritage is the combined legacy of traditions, customs, body of knowledge and cultural manifestations that are preserved and passed down through generations within a community. It is one of the fundamental aspects of social identity and historical continuity. It reflects the value, beliefs and practices of a given community of people. Cultural heritage is broadly divided into two major categories; tangible and intangible heritage. Tangible cultural heritage entails physical and material manifestations of culture such as artifacts, traditional clothing, handicrafts, architectural structures, and other objects that reflect cultural identity of a people. Intangible cultural heritage on the other hand is non-material cultural expressions that are transmitted through generations mainly through oral expression and the participation of people.1 In a culturally diverse nation like India, indigenous and ethnic communities are a vital part in preserving such heritage. And this adds a significant contribution to the cultural richness and diversity of the nation.