CA Inter / LL.B Interdisciplinary Aspects of Law & Technology | Virtual Book

This book is a comprehensive and authentic textbook on Law & technology. It provides cutting-edge analysis of the most engaging matters of Law & Technology.

It will be helpful for law students, researchers and practitioners in Law & Technology.

The Present Publication is the latest edition, edited by Dr. Tabrez Ahmad, Dr. Azimkhan B. Pathan, Dr. Ajit Kaushal, and Dr. Aditi Mukherjee Chakravorty. The noteworthy features of this book are as follows:

• [Based on Law & Technology] It examines the impact of technology on the various aspects of Law
• [Collection of Scholarly Research Papers] dealing with contemporary issues of Law & technology. It provides the theoretical dimensions of the future of Law & technology.
• [Alignment of Technology with Various Areas of the Law] such as human rights, criminal Law, offences against women, dispute settlement, international trade law, etc.
• [Micro Level Analysis] on topics such as drone technology, cryptocurrencies, weaponised artificial intelligence, the role of the internet in sexual crimes, etc.

The detailed contents of the book are as follows:

• Journey from Tool to Personhood of Artificial Intelligence

– Ayush Goel and Dr. Sunil John

• Crypto-currency – Legal Issues & Developments

– Raghunath Chakraborty

• A Critical Study on Settlement of International Trade Disputes under World Trade Organisation

– G Vinaya

• Artificial Intelligence and Law

– Susan Zacharia

• Challenges of Ascertaining Jurisdiction of Virtual Currency Frauds

– Shruti Das

• Challenges of e-contracts in the Indian scenario

– Charisma Mariam Appachankutty

• Changing Architecture of War – An Analysis of New Advanced Technologies, Automation and its Implications on International Humanitarian Law

– Adithya Anil Variath and Lourdes Anthony

• Concrete Legislative Initiatives – Imperatives for a Fair Trial in the Digital News Media Pervasiveness

– Jomy Thottiyan Jose 

• Data Protection Law in India – An overview of the Data Protection Bill, 2021

– Prabjot Singh Bhullar

• Defamation in the Internet Age

– Prachie Singh and Harsh Singh

• Digital Politics in India – Regulation of Political Participation and Communication through Social Media

– Priyansha Badoni and Dr. Faizanur Rahman

• Drone-Based Targeted Killing – A Violation of International Humanitarian Law

– Dr. Puneet Pathak and Rahul Sk

• E-Voting and Virtual Shareholder Meetings in India – Enhancing shareholders' participation through technology

– Kirthana Singh Khurana

• Impact of Globalisation on International Trade

– Krupa K Varghese

• Impact of Technology on the Workforce

– Ankit Garg and Sureksha Garg

• International Accountability in the use of Weaponised Artificial Intelligence

– Tushar Rajput and Ahan Gadkari

• International Trade Practices and Conflicts – Their Settlement with reference to WTO Regime

– Raveena R Nair

• Internet and Sexual offences – A correlation

– Athira Nair and Sakshi Swapnil

• Interplay of Security, Privacy and Ethics in an Artificial Intelligence Era

– A. Anchirppa

• Interpretation of term 'Information' under Right to Information Act, 2005 and Information Technology Act, 2000

– Purvish Jitendra Malkan

• Online Dispute Resolution – A Solution of e-disputes

– Dr. Navneet Kaur Chahal and Nasrullah Rezaie

• Regulating Internet Coins

– Asif Pasha Arief Batcha

• Revenge Pornography – A Discourse on Law and Policy Framework

– Rajasi Guharoy and Rajrupa Basu

• Secondary Characters in Biopics – A Privacy Conundrum

– Parth Sharma and Deepti Srivastava

• The Rising Trend of using Abusive Language in Popular Web Series Culture – A Critical Analysis of the Indian Legal Scenario

– Nidhi Sinha

• The Unknowns of Cryptocurrency and the Known of Liberty and Change

– Abhinav Gupta and Ranjan Kumar

About the Author

Tabrez Ahmad

Dr. Tabrez Ahmad currently serves as the Vice Chancellor of the G.D. Goenka University and Dean, School of Law. Dr. Tabrez Ahmad's expertise is in cyber Law, intellectual property rights, energy law, and jurisprudence, with a commercial law background. He has taught these subjects for nearly 21 years at universities such as the W.B. National University of Juridical Sciences (Kolkata), KIIT University (Bhubaneswar), Alliance University (Bengaluru), University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (Dehradun), and Galgotias University (Greater Noida).

Dr. Tabrez Ahmad holds a PhD (Cyber Law & IPR), LL.M. (Commercial Law & Cyber Law), and B.Sc. (Combined Hons) (Zoology, Botany & Chemistry) from the AM University Aligarh, India.

He is also a Prolific speaker on Higher Education Systems and Processes, Multi-disciplinary research, NEP, Cyberlaw, IPR & Energy Law. He has delivered Keynote and spoken at more than 100 prestigious International conferences held in the USA, UK, China, Japan, UAE, Egypt, Singapore, etc. He has authored a pioneering book entitled 'Cyber Law, E-commerce and M-commerce' and published more than 100 papers in reputed journals.

He is an active blogger, Youtuber, and editor of various International journals. By New York USA-based SSRN, he is ranked among the Top 100 Law Authors in the World. He is among the IPLEADERS-2019 Top 100 most followed LinkedIn lawyers and has been ranked 13 in the world. He has been awarded by the APAC News Network 2021 in recognition of an Exceptional Leader who made a difference and Extraordinary Contribution to the Education Sector. He has also been awarded the best Keynote Speaker by the SIETIIE 2019 and 'Top 50 IP Players' by IPR Gorilla USA. He is one of the Youngest Vice-Chancellor in the World.

Azimkhan B. Pathan

Dr. Azimkhan B. Pathan currently serves as the Head of the School of Law, G.D. Goenka University. He has 16 years of Academics and Professional experience. He has served as a Professor of Law & Dean (I/C) and Head and Chair for the Centre for Post Graduate Legal Studies, School of Law Galgotias University, Greater Noida, during 2019-21. He is a passionate learner of Law and social sciences. His doctoral work is based on Climate Change Law. He has a keen interest in Environmental Law and Comparative Public Law research. He has also worked as an Associate Professor of Law at the School of Law, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun, between 2015-2019.

He also worked as a Legal Practitioner in the District Court, Yavatmal, Maharashtra and the Bombay High Court, Nagpur Bench, under Senior Advocate Sri S. Bhalerao between 2005-07. He is an Honorary Editor of the Public Knowledge Project and has also been a Resource Person for the World Bank Project (IIM Kashipur). He organised a workshop on Business and Sustainability. He has been a Resource Person in a workshop on 'Environment Law Adjudication' by Chhattisgarh Environment Board.

He has been a resource person for many workshops, including UGC Human Resource Development Center, Indore. He has organised camps for Rural Areas for the Construction of handmade Water Harvesting through the National Service Scheme. Dr. Pathan has in his credit a project on 'Ethanol Blending: The Way Forward', conducted with Policy and Legal Research Chamber, New Delhi. He has also authored two books, many research chapters, and articles in books and journals of repute. He is a regular Reviewer of the International Journal on Human Rights (Taylor and Francis, Scopus Indexed Journal). He is also the recipient of many research awards. He is also the recipient of Ex-Prime Minister P.V. Narsimha Rao's Gold Medal.

Ajit Kaushal

Dr. Ajit Kaushal is a Professor in the School of Law, G.D. Goenka University, India. He has been in the field of legal education since 2012, and since then, he has handled various subjects related to Business and Corporate Laws. He has completed his education at top-ranked institutions in India and abroad. Before joining academics, he spent four years in the industry, assisting multinationals in dealing with cases involving high legal complexities. While working in the industry, he was part of the legal database development and litigation support team. He has also acted independently to work on various legal matters relating to sub-prime fraud, bank fraud, securitisation, bankruptcy etc.

Dr. Ajit Kaushal is skilled in the area of Business & Corporate Laws. He has taught numerous subjects of Laws related to trade & business, like laws of Contract, Companies Laws, International Taxation Laws, International Trust Laws, Corporate Finance, International Trade Laws, Mergers & Acquisitions etc.

He has completed his Doctoral degree in the area of 'conflicts in global currency regulations' involving the intricated issues of international business. His area of interest lies in multijurisdictional legal matters, particularly in the international legal order, the US-China trade war, international taxation, international commercial arbitration, corporate governance, and independent directorship. He has tens of papers published and presented in various journals and conferences. He has also co-authored a book on Banking & Corporate Laws.

Aditi Mukherjee Chakravorty

Dr. Aditi is an Assistant Professor in the School of Law and Head of the IPR cell. She completed her PhD Thesis at the Faculty of Law, Banaras Hindu University, in 2020. She completed her work on Intellectual property Laws, Corporate Social Responsibilities and Gender issues and has been published in various publications. One of her works,' Compulsory Licensing of Pharmaceutical Patents in India', was published in the Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) journal.

Her other works are

• 'Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies and TRIPS Agreement (2018)
• 'Historical Development of Laws on Sexual Harassment at Workplace (2018)
• Corporate Social Responsibility: An Overview with Companies Act, 2013 (2017)
• UCC: Kingpin to Break Anarchy in Personal Laws (2016)

Besides, she presented papers at different international and national Conferences and Seminars. Her current research focuses on intellectual property rights in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as how the TRIPS agreement's legal mechanism of compulsory licensing will benefit developing countries and how member countries can enforce it in their national laws. Before joining the School of Law, she had served as a Research Fellow at the Centre for WTO Studies, IIFT, New Delhi and was associated with the Trade Policy Division (SPS/TBT/TRIPS) in the Department of Commerce, Government of India.