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The science of law

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It is almost unanimously accepted that the path economies take to attain high competitiveness—where firms embrace international competition—goes through innovation. To increase competitiveness, this path enables innovators to acclimatise swiftly to perennial gales of technological change. Enterprises that are competitive in open global markets are key drivers in a nation’s competitiveness. Intellectual property rights (IPRs) are critical to incentivising innovation, which, in turn, is key to sustaining economic growth. Scholars have found this statement to hold true based on rigorous empirical testing across a cross-section of countries and time periods.

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The Finance Ministry’s Location Test is Neither Consistent nor Effective

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Justice Adarsh Goel, retired Supreme Court judge, was appointed chair of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) for a period of five years in July 2018. He stepped into the shoes of Justice Swatanter Kumar, who passed several landmark decisions including a ban on 10-year-old diesel and 15-year-old petrol vehicles; the demolition of illegal hotels in Himachal Pradesh; and a ban on plastic items in Delhi, Haridwar and Punjab.

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One Road One Belt Project initiated by Hong Kong WTO Research Institute and Guanghua Law School, Zhejiang University

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CITEL is currently working on the One Road One Belt project initiated by Hong Kong WTO Research Institute and the Guanghua Law School at Zhejiang University to study the legal and trade policy regimes of various countries within the Silk Road Initiative. The Silk Road Initiative includes Central Asia, West Asia, the Middle East and…

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Standardization and Innovation in the ICT Sector

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The Indian government has launched two ambitious, complementary initiatives designed to transform India into a global manufacturing and technology hub —‘Make in India’ and ‘Digital India’. APJ Abdul Kalam, the former Indian President and noted scientist, had pointed out that such schemes ought not to lead India to ‘become the low-cost, low-value assembly line of the world’. Rather, India ought to focus on hightechnology manufacturing and innovation. A large body of scholarly literature on intellectual property (IP)—dealing with the causal relationships between patents, innovation and economic growth—pointsto the beneficial effects of innovation.

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Impact of the Naz Foundation Judgment on the Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in Delhi: An Empirical Investigation

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This study undertaken by the CHLET aimed to determine and analyze the impact of the landmark judgment of 2 July 2009 by the Delhi High Court on the lives of sexual minorities in Delhi. The Court’s judgment was in response to a petition challenging the constitutional validity of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) which criminalized consensual sexual activities between homosexual adults conducted in private. The judgment held that Section 377 infringed upon fundamental rights under Articles 14, 15, 21 of the Constitution of India, and declared the section to be unconstitutional to the extent that it criminalized private consensual sexual activity between adults.

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Abolishing the Death Penalty

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This study was undertaken by the Centre for Human Rights Studies (CHRS) in collaboration with the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre, the Human Rights Law Network, and the Centre for Development and Human Rights. It was conducted with the aim of initiating inquiry and reflection on the morality and effectiveness of the death penalty. The final report, produced as an outcome of a conference held on the subject, summarizes the arguments against the death penalty from various standpoints including empirical, historical, sociological, constitutional, and consequential. The study also includes recommendations and is intended as an advocacy tool. Recommendations were made to the Government, human rights institutions, the judiciary and the legal fraternity, NGOs, media and civil society. The report was published in November 2011.

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New Zealand – India Free Trade Agreement Promotion Initiative in Collaboration with the Oval Foundation, UK

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CITEL in collaboration with the Oval Foundation, a non-profit think tank based in the UK, is taking the initiative to promote a New Zealand–India Free Trade Agreement (FTA) by conducting a comprehensive stakeholder consultation within India to ensure a productive bilateral dialogue in order to expedite a FTA between the two countries. The project intends to throw light on India’s trade policy stance with regards to New Zealand and ascertain the mutual economic benefits that would flow to both the countries from the completion of the FTA, given the considerable trade complementarities which exist between the two countries. The project will assess how the two countries can deepen economic cooperation in various sectors such as agriculture, infrastructure, manufacturing, construction, tourism and education. The project will determine how enhanced trade facilitation through the completion of the FTA will create mutual economic benefits for the two countries. The project intends to bring the discourse on the topic in both the public and executive domain through various stakeholder dialogues, media outreach, white papers and a final report.

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