Writing
Nikhil Pratap writes on technology law, arbitration, constitutional law and contemporary legal issues.
From an 1892 court case about a smoke ball that promised to cure the flu, to Patanjali — the long, strange history of selling cures that don't work.
Read on Scroll.in →Why India should let platforms moderate online speech within a legal framework, instead of running it from the centre.
Read on The Hindu →How the Supreme Court resolves clashes between fundamental rights — and a cleaner framework for doing it.
Read the thesis →The case for a strong, genuinely independent data-protection regime in India.
Read on BusinessLine →Access to vaccines as a right — and what the state owes its people in a pandemic.
Read on The Indian Express →After the Cairn award, why India should rewrite the fair-and-equitable-treatment clause in its investment treaties.
Read on IndiaCorpLaw →Designing the Data Protection Authority as an independent ‘fourth branch’ of the state.
Read on Constitutional Law and Philosophy →Why data-protection law alone won't fix surveillance — India needs a law for that too.
Read on The Wire →Privacy, and the machinery India uses to track disease.
Read on Jurist →Why India's century-old epidemic law needs replacing.
Read on Hindustan Times →The confusion over which courts supervise arbitrations ‘seated in India’, and how to fix it.
Read on IndiaCorpLaw →Contact-tracing is fine — but put Aarogya Setu on a legal footing first.
Read on The Hindu →How much privacy should a billion people give up to fight a virus?
Read on The Wire →