The Centre’s research this year followed the questions that AI is forcing open faster than the law can answer them: how accountability is allocated across the AI value chain, how far transparency obligations extend, how courts and regulators should use these systems themselves, and what copyright, competition and cybercrime law must become in response.

This research is the evidence base on which the Centre’s submissions to regulators rest, and the route by which the Indian perspective enters international scholarship on AI governance.

Each year, the Centre under its own auspices will lead scholarship projects where the Centre sets the questions and convenes the scholarship that answers it. We led two such projects this year:

• JGU AI Governance Report, 2026; and
• Launching a special issue of JGLR on AI & Law.

Each year, the Centre also plans to generate scholarship and enter into academic dialogues to shape the discussions on AI and regulation. We published two books, four academic papers, and presented four working papers this year on this front.

The Centre is mindful that the broader public does not get involved in questions of AI regulation through academic articles and scholarship. Accordingly, the Centre also frequently engages with the broader public through on whose behalf questions of AI regulation are being decided through mass circulated newspapers. We published nine columns in the national press.