Scholarship Contribution

Scholarship Contribution

A. Books

The Centre contributes to academic dialogue to shape AI governance globally from India. We published two books setting out the field as a whole, one across technology law and one on artificial intelligence, both written for the practitioners and students who must work with the law as it stands at the cusp of a disruption.

Technology Law: Regulations, Cyber Policy, and the Digital Landscape

Prof. Nikhil Naren and Mr. Rodney D. Ryder · Law & Justice Publishing Co., 2025 · 646 pp.

The Centre celebrated the release of Technology Law: Regulations, Cyber Policy, and the Digital Landscape, co-authored by Prof. Nikhil Naren and Mr. Rodney D. Ryder. The book examines contemporary issues in technology law, cyber policy and digital governance, and features a Foreword by Hon’ble Justice (Retd.) Sanjiv Khanna, Former Chief Justice of India and an Introduction by Mr. R. Venkataramani, Attorney General for India.

Artificial Intelligence and Law: Challenges Demystified

Mr. Rodney D. Ryder and Prof. Nikhil Naren · Law & Justice Publishing Co.

The book sets out the legal questions that artificial intelligence raises for those who must answer them in practice, addressing itself to decision makers, scientists, business leaders and policymakers.

The latest edition of the book extends this account to the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, to the intersection of artificial intelligence with intellectual property, to the arrival of generative AI, and to the bearing of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act on AI systems in India.

B. Published Papers

  • ‘Hypersuasion’ and Beyond

    Published On: October 14, 2026

    Prof. Krishna Deo Singh Chauhan · Handbook of Global Philosophies on AI Ethics This book chapter, contributed to Routledge’s Handbook, [...]

  • AI Regulation: Trojan Horses, Shifting Windows and Estranging the Familiar

    Published On: October 14, 2026

    Prof. Krishna Deo Singh Chauhan and Prof. Anupriya · Volume 15(2) The article argues that the central failure in AI [...]

  • Rethinking India’s cybercrime law: from information technology act to emerging threats in a global context.

    Published On: October 14, 2026

    Prof. Nikhil Naren and Ms. Kashish Gupta · Routledge The research article published in the International Review of Law, Computers [...]

  • The Arbitrability of Smart Contract Disputes

    Published On: October 14, 2026

    Prof. Ashiv Choudhary and Prof. Harsh Mahaseth · Law and Regulation of AI, Blockchain, and Digital Rights The chapter, contributed [...]

C. Working Papers

  • What is AI? Towards a Non-Technical Conceptualization of AI for Students of the Humanities

    Published On: October 14, 2026

    Prof. Krishna Deo Singh Chauhan · 11 September 2025 The paper develops an account of artificial intelligence that students of [...]

  • Deploying Right to Information for Accountable AI

    Published On: October 14, 2026

    Prof. Kashish Makkar and Prof. Ashwin Upreti The paper considers how India’s right to information regime must be adapted for [...]

  • Smart Calendaring in Courts: Technology and Design in the Listing of ‘Advance’ Cases

    Published On: October 14, 2026

    Prof. Spriha Bhandari The paper treats the listing of cases as a question of institutional design rather than of administrative [...]

  • Locating the ‘Right to Drive’: Autonomy versus Autonomous Vehicles

    Published On: October 14, 2026

    Prof. Arindum Nayak and Prof. Kashish Makkar The paper asks whether a right to drive forms part of individual liberty, [...]