Locating India in the Contemporary International Legal Order

ISBN-13: 9788132235781 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 337 str.

Srinivas Burra; Rajesh Babu

Opis

This book brings together disparate views on how to appropriately locate India in the contemporary international legal order.

Spis treści

1. Introduction

Srinivas Burra & Rajesh Babu R.

Part: Ideas, Justice and Humanitarianism

2. Gandhi and International Law: Satyagraha as Universal Justice

S.G. Sreejith 

3. A Critic and an Apologist: India's Quest for UN Security Council Permanent Membership

Srinivas Burra & Haris Jamil

4. Collective Engagement and Selective Endorsement: India's Ambivalent Attitude towards Laws of Armed Conflict

Srinivas Burra

 Part: Trade, Investment and Taxation

5. Two Decades of Trade Remedy Litigations in WTO: India the Protectionist Trader

Raju KD

6. India and Bilateral Investment Treaties: From Rejection to Embracement to Hesitance?

Prabhash Ranjan

7. Making International Tax Law: Analysing Tax Jurisprudence in India

Ajay Kumar 

Part: Intellectual Property Regimes

8. Protection Of Traditional Knowledge And Expressions Of Folklore: Locating India in the Global Framework

R. Rajesh Babu

9. Transnational Influences in Trade Mark and Domain Name Protection:  The Indian Experience 

V. K. Unni

10. India’s Participatory Role in the Database Debate at WIPO

Indranath Gupta

11. TRIPS and Public Health: Challenges for India and its Response

Reji K. Joseph

Part: Nature, Resources and Rights

12. India and International Environmental Law

Shiju V. Mazhuvanchery

13. Implementation of the Convention On Biological Diversity And Its Protocols in India

Pushpa Kumar Lakshmanan

14. Indian Civil Nuclear Liability Law (CNLD Act): An Adventurism or Exceptionalism in International Legal Discourse

M. P. Ram Mohan

O autorze

Dr. Srinivas Burra is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Legal Studies, South Asian University, New Delhi. Earlier, he worked as Legal Adviser with the Regional Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross, New Delhi, and as a Senior Legal Officer with the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization (AALCO) Secretariat, New Delhi. His research interests include human rights law, international humanitarian law, international refugee law, treaty law, international institutions, international criminal law and legal theory. He has several publications to his credit. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Indian Journal of International Law, published by Springer.

Dr. R. Rajesh Babu is a Professor of Law in the Public Policy Group at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC). He received his Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University in International Law. His research and teaching interests include international economic law, international dispute resolution, property rights and corporate liability. He has several books, book chapters and articles in international and national journals to his credit. His books include “Remedies under the WTO Legal System” published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden, 2012, and the co-edited book “Management Education in India: Perspectives and Practices”, by Springer, Singapore, 2017. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Indian Journal of International Law and was till recently (April 2018) the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Decision (Official Journal of IIM Calcutta); both journals are published by Springer.