Re-Thinking the Law: Emerging Issues and Challenges

The contributions from young legal scholars deal with important emerging areas in law including constitutional law, public international law, criminal law and intellectual property law. They mainly take up dysfunctions of the existing legal regimes and challenges in the existing legal regimes. They discuss the laws for protection of rights of senior citizens, the human right to food, prevention of arbitrary arrest, the Supreme Court’s application of death penalty and exception of fair use doctrine under the Indian copyright law. An interesting attempt is made to study the pre-emptive use of violence for ‘self-defence’ by the USA in the countries of Iraq and Afghanistan, as part of its governmental policy.