Building Better Cities

Making Delhi’s Buildings Accessible at the State and Municipal Level

Queering the Law

Beyond Supriyo

Consumer Guide for Persons with Disabilities

Comments on the Draft Western Ghats Ecosensitive Area Notification 2024

Comments on the draft Jharkhand Platform based Gig Workers Bill, 2024

Joint Submission with the Indian Federation of App Based Transport Workers (IFAT)

Comments on the draft Karnataka Platform based Gig Workers Bill, 2024

Joint Submission with the Indian Federation of App Based Transport Workers

Participatory AI Approaches in AI Development and Governance

Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy in collaboration with the Centre for Responsible AI at IIT Madras

Fair and Competitive Digital Markets for India

The Report of the Committee on Digital Competition Law and the Draft Digital Competition Bill

Disabled Friendly Consumer Protection

The Green Dispatch

The Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, in collaboration with the ClimateRISE Alliance, brings to you a monthly newsletter titled "The Green Dispatch."

Gender and Disability Inclusion in Urban Development

Tax Carve Outs Under Bilateral Investment Protection Agreements

A review

Making the Digital Eco-System Disabled Friendly

An evaluation of the accessibility of ten widely used apps in India

A Decade of POCSO: Developments, Challenges and Insights from Judicial Data

The largest study of the performance of POCSO courts in 486 districts in India

Clearing the Air

A Synthesised Mapping of Out of School Children during COVID-19 in India (April 2020-May 2022)

Clearing the Air: A Synthesised Mapping of Out of School Children during COVID-19 in India (April 2020-May 2022)

Financial Inclusion of Women during the Pandemic

The Role of Jan Dhan accounts and Cash Transfers

Inheritance Rights of Transgender Persons in India

Indian Law Review

COVID-19, Persons with Disabilities and an (Un)Inclusive Healthcare System

Advocating for systemic change to ensure an accessible 'human' healthcare system

IBC and Foreign Representatives: Gearing Up for the Recognition and Regulation of a New Class of Professionals

Early Childhood Care and Education: ‘The Elephant in the Room’ No More

Vulnerable Children of Maharashtra

A report on the status of children orphaned by COVID-19

Vulnerable Children of Maharashtra

A Report on the Status of Children Orphaned by COVID-19

Mandatory Reporting under POCSO

Journal Article in Economic & Political Weekly

Consumer Disputes in the Financial Sector – Grievance Redress by Courts

Indian Law Review

One Nation, Many Paths

A Position Paper on the Indian Constitution

Captive Elephants and the Wildlife (Protection) Amendment Bill, 2022: A Discussion Paper

A draft provision against the mandate of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972

Comments on the Drugs, Medical Devices and Cosmetics Bill, 2022

Submissions to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India

Environmental Rule of Law in India: A Transformative Principle or Old Wine in a New Bottle

Comments on the Proposed Decriminalisation of Four Key Environmental Legislation

Submission to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

Ensuring Coherence between Personal Data Protection and Algorithmic Accountability

Submissions to the Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce

On the subject ‘Promotion and Regulation of E-Commerce in India’.

Right to Privacy in the Digital Age: Children’s Right to Privacy While Using Ed Tech Services

Right to Privacy in the Digital Age: Submissions to UN OHCHR Resolution 48/4

Whose Land is it Anyway?

A look at agricultural land laws in Maharashtra

Responsible AI for the Indian Justice System – A Strategy Paper

A conversation starter for integrating responsible artificial intelligence (AI) within the Indian justice system

COVID-19 and Exclusion of Children with Disabilities in Education

Insights from four states in India

Data Stewardship for Non-Personal Data in India

A position paper on data trusts

Match Manipulation in India

Need for an independent legislation to criminalise, monitor and prevent match fixing

Removing Roadblocks in Taxing Business Income in the Digital Era

Building a global consensus for an equitable solution

256th Report on Eliminating Discrimination Against Persons Affected by Leprosy

Drafting the Elimination of Discrimination Against Persons Affected by Leprosy Bill, 2015 to recognise their fundamental rights to dignity and equality

Report of the Committee of Experts Development of Valuation Professionals

Developing the valuation profession and the market for valuation services in India

Report of the 2nd Company Law Committee (2019) and the Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2020.

Reforming company law for facilitating ease of doing business in India

The Need for a Comprehensive Human-Wildlife Compensation Law in Karnataka

An analysis of the current system of compensation, and a proposed law to bridge gaps

Report of the 2nd Insolvency Law Committee and Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment Act), 2020

Facilitating resolutions by protecting resolution applicants from past criminal liabilities and preventing termination of critical supplies to the corporate debtor

IBC Liquidation Regime: A Review on the Role of Liquidators and the Official Liquidator

An assessment on whether the functioning of the liquidation regime under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Code) can be improved by involving the office of the Official Liquidator (OL)

End of Life Care in India

A model legal framework

India Justice Report 2019

A ranking of Indian states and the robustness of their justice systems

Cleaning Constitutional Cobwebs: Reforming the Seventh Schedule

Towards a principled basis of vertical division of powers in India

Litigation Landscape of Bengaluru – Bengaluru Rural Courts

Understanding the litigation landscape of six court complexes in Bengaluru

Competition Law Review Committee (CLRC) Report: July 2019

To comprehensively review and recommend changes to the Competition Act, 2002, and the Rules and Regulations framed thereunder

Insolvency and Liquidation Proceedings of Financial Service Providers Rules, 2019

Providing a Legal Framework for Resolution of Financial Service Providers under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code

Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Act, 2019

Balancing the rights of creditors under a resolution plan and reducing delays under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code.

Report to Analyse the Zero Draft of the ‘Legally Binding Instrument To Regulate, In International Human Rights Law, The Activities Of Transnational Corporations And Other Business Enterprises’

Shaping India’s position in international negotiations at the United Nations on a legally binding instrument on business and human rights.

Zero Draft of the National Action Plan for Implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

Developing a ‘National Action Plan’ on business and human rights

Understanding the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016: Analysing Developments in Jurisprudence

A collaborative report with the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) that analyses evolving jurisprudence under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Code).

A Framework for Countering Mobilised Violence

Need for regulating groups with a history of engaging in violence, and for reframing hate speech under the Indian Penal Code

Implication of Article 293 of the Constitution of India on State Borrowing

Exploring the kinds of conditions that the Centre can and should impose on State borrowing

Examination of the Legal Basis for Conditional Transfers to States and Issues Relating to Performance-Based Incentives for States

Exploring the legal contours of conditional fiscal transfers to states

Cesses and Surcharges: Concept, Practice and Reform

An analysis of the legal and constitutional issues pertaining to cesses and surcharges

Report of the IBBI Working Group on Group Insolvency

Designing a framework for facilitating insolvency resolution of group companies

The 1st Insolvency Law Committee Report and Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment), Ordinance 2018

Ironing-out the initial implementation issues under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code

Report of the Committee to Review Offences under the Companies Act, 2013

Decriminalizing technical non-compliances under company law

The Law Isn’t Straight

A queer person’s guide to accessing rights

Development & Enforcement of Performance Standards to Enhance Accountability of the Higher Judiciary in India

An evaluation of judicial performance evaluation and recommendations to allow for its institution in India

Report of the 1st IBBI Working Group on Individual Insolvency

Operationalising the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code for resolution of personal insolvencies

IBBI Regulations on Voluntary Liquidation of Corporate Persons, 2017

Facilitating voluntary closure of solvent businesses under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code

IBBI Regulations on the Fast-track Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process, 2017

Providing a procedural framework for ‘fast-track’ insolvency resolution of certain corporate persons

Report of Committee to Draft Code on Resolution of Financial Firms (2016) and Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance Bill, 2017

Designing a law for resolution of distressed banks and

Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Information Utilities) Regulations, 2017

Developing a legal framework for information utilities under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code

Regulations Under the Aadhaar Act

Operationalising the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016: Drafting of the Aadhaar regulations

IBBI Regulations on Liquidation of Corporate Persons, 2016

Facilitating liquidation of corporate persons under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code

Application to Adjudicating Authority Rules for Insolvency Resolution of Corporate Persons, 2016

Enabling the initiation of the insolvency resolution process under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code

IBBI Regulations on Insolvency Resolution of Corporate Persons, 2016

Facilitating insolvency resolution of corporate persons under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code

IBBI Regulations on Insolvency Professional Agencies, 2016

Regulating Insolvency Professional Agencies for development of the insolvency professionals’ industry

IBBI Regulations on Insolvency Professionals, 2016

Regulating Insolvency Professionals for development of the insolvency eco-system in India

Reports for the 2nd IBBI Working Group on Individual Insolvency

Operationalising the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code for resolution of personal insolvencies

Report of the Insolvency Law Committee on Cross-Border Insolvency

Designing a framework for facilitating cross-border insolvency resolutions under the Code

Final Report of the Bankruptcy Law Reform Committee and the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016

Designing a new insolvency and bankruptcy legislation for India

Report of the Committee to recommend measures for curbing mis-selling in financial products

Deterring miss-selling of financial products