Prof (Dr) Vijay Kumar Singh

INDIA’S STORY OF IP AND SMES: TAKING IDEAS TO THE MARKET

May 3, 2021

April 26th is celebrated as World Intellectual Property (IP) Day every year since 2000, when the member states of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) decided to celebrate this day in recognition of coming into force of the WIPO Convention on this date in the year 1970. India joined WIPO...

Revitalizing the concept of “Producer Companies”: will it act as Fourth Pillar of India Farm Laws?

October 29, 2020

Companies (Amendment) Act 2020 has again brought back the provisions of ‘Producer Companies’ into the Companies Act, 2013 and may be considered as important especially in light of the latest Farm Laws. As per the new Framework for farming agreements law and the Freedom of Choice to Sell Farmers’ Produce...

Farmers at the centre of political debate once again: Looking at farm bills from competition lens

September 28, 2020

It is surprising for many that ‘Kisan’ (the Farmer) is at the center of political debate and legislative action but for an election season. Generally, farmers in India are at the center of debate during Lok Sabha elections, as every political party has to make assurances in their manifestos for...

Focus on Local: Looking at competition law, policy lens

May 26, 2020

The Prime Minister of India gave a clarion call for “Aatmanirbhar Bharat” i.e. a Self-Reliant India while addressing the nation on 12May 2020 on the eve of Lockdown 4.0. In his address for about 33 minutes, what would have caught the attention of competition law practitioners, scholars and industries in...

Addressing discrimination in the time of quarantine

May 20, 2020

Red, Orange and Green is just not associated with traffic signals now, but in Covid-19 times, it depicts the risk profiling of the 733 districts as hotspots (red), alert (orange), no cases (green) zones. This list is dynamic and would be reviewed weekly. Further, the district authorities would identify containment...

Legal education in India: Will Covid-19 act as a catalyst for reforms?

May 1, 2020

Online classes, webinars and masterclasses are a new normal for higher education. Legal education is not untouched with this phenomenon. However, the question is whether these measures are temporary or it would act as a catalyst for much desired reform in Indian legal education. Felix Frankfurter (1927) observed rightly, “The...

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