Harshad
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int'l investment law & arbitration lawyer; PhD researcher at @unige_en; priest who lost his faith but kept his job.
Geneva, Switzerland
Joined June 2010
Can't wait to name my future dogs - "seat", " place", and "venue" - and keep confusing them!
Thinking about the CA couple in my society that named their two pups Debit and Credit.
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The judge has a point about reporting things out of context and reports spiralling out of control on socials. But let's be clear: but for the reporting of the problematic remarks by the judge, he wouldn't have rightly issued the clarification today. That's called accountability.
'We Will Stop Interacting': Delhi HC Slams Media For Sensationalizing Its Oral Comments On Newslaundry Journalist #DelhiHighCourt #media @newslaundry
https://t.co/mNQKYi1UUn
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I assure you that if the festival in question concerned a minority religion, the Court's "balanced approach" to tackle the severe & embarrassing air pollution problem would have led to an opposite conclusion. Hence the apposite claim - law is politics.
Invoking the principle of proportionality, the Court said a “balanced approach” was required to reconcile the citizens’ right to celebrate festivals with the imperative of protecting public health and the environment.
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I review Soo-hyun Lee's 'Financing for Sustainable Development in International Investment Law' for @mjinteclaw. For those keen to reform IIL & ISDS, the book is timely and helpful. Yet it does little to assuage the reservations of those more critical. https://t.co/G5C5YUi7j0
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"A young associate approaches me. “Wasn't that keynote incredible?” she gushes. Honestly it wasn’t. I nod politely. She's networking, and I respect the hustle. We all started here." 😂
"Arbitration is the future,” the retired judge (HMJ) declares. The future, apparently, involves a lot of expensive conferences in five-star hotels, and panelists who agree on everything. The actual practitioners are probably at home, actually arbitrating.
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"... an already compromised sport was co-opted, and a shared passion became a tool of political division." Unsurprisingly, so many simply don't care about this team anymore because of what it stands for. And what the sport means to us. https://t.co/vo2fG3FHRd
espncricinfo.com
India and Pakistan's unedifying posturing and power plays sapped all joy from the tournament and left only a sense of what the game has surrendered
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"Ask not what you can do for your country's exploitative litigation system - ask what the litigation system can do for you."
Delivering the Prof NR Madhava Menon Memorial Lecture at Dr Ambedkar International Centre in New Delhi, Chief Justice of India BR Gavai cautioned that the NLU model, while revolutionary, has ended up steering a large share of its graduates to corporate jobs rather than public
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"Copyright enforcement is never neutral: It reinforces class power [...] The High Court order, therefore, serves a class function: It fortifies subscription models that private publishers exploit whilst public budgets shrink." Spot on!
Our op-ed in @IndianExpress looks at the Delhi High Court’s recent injunction directing the blocking of Sci-Hub. We argue that Sci-Hub cannot be equated with a “rogue website.” Its use by students and researchers falls within the fair dealing protections of the Copyright Act,
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For a moment, forget about the politics of publishing and profit-chasing through IPR. This is an obvious own-goal in a country already defined by income inequality, poor academic standards, and limited critical thinking. 😓
ICYMI: The Delhi HC has ordered MeitY and DoT to block Sci-Hub across India. H/t: https://t.co/c7pplhlibs
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I got no bone to pick with the substantive (de)merits of the move, but the trend of the Supreme Court framing policy through PILs remains worrying. It has also rarely succeeded. Despite many suffering at the hands of the court, Ganga is still unclean, NCR air remains polluted...
Not a single stray dog should be released from the dog shelters to the public, the Court ordered. Read more: https://t.co/WzOcEYGo79
#SupremeCourt #straydogs #SupremeCourtofIndia #straydog #Delhi
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Kudos to Emma Scali, @johndhaskell, and many others involved, for crafting such a thought-provoking and enjoyable programme. Special thanks also to Aleksandar Stojanović and @azacharyhale for engaging with my paper on the colonial continuities of investment law and ISDS.
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Spent last week at Global Law & Political Academy in Roccella, discussing how capitalism shapes legal regimes and translating theory into policy. Great conversations about TWAIL, investment law, sovereign debt trap, ICC warrants, rent withholding, and of course, Italian beaches!
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A groundbreaking opinion from Inter-American Court of Human Rights urges states to review their #ISDS mechanisms and ensure that #investment treaties align with climate obligations. Josef Ostransky’s 🆕 blog breaks down the Court’s key findings ➡️ https://t.co/tA68yzTF9a
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I get why contempt proceedings were initiated here. But it takes some next level thinking to suggest with a straight face that drinking beer in court "will be destructive to the rule of law and the institution will collapse"... 😂
Gujarat High Court on June 30 initiated suo motu contempt of court proceedings against Senior Advocate Bhaskar Tanna for allegedly drinking beer during a virtual hearing. “The indecent act of of the senior advocate has very wide ramifications as it has travelled beyond the
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IISD's Josef Ostřanský on why we need to rethink investment treaties from scratch—so they can become a tool for tackling key #SustainabeDevelopment challenges. ➡️Join us in rethinking treaties for the 21st century—our public consultation is live https://t.co/9rMfhvuqS8
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Special thanks to @federicavioli, Piotr Wilinski, @ThomasKPSchultz, Gerard Meijer, and @anil_yv for their thoughtful comments and encouragement. Also to @unige_en for helping make the article open access.
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Excited to share my article in the @JournalOfIDS, challenging assumptions that IIL and ISDS are neutral or depoliticized. I argue that the narrow pool of identities, histories, and politics defining the arbitrators community makes their reasoning poorer.
academic.oup.com
Abstract. This article contributes to the emerging critiques of international investment law (IIL) and investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) reform proc
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It's been a long two years, but a strong foundation has been laid through a painful process. Finish the job on Wednesday, and then begins the quest to reclaim our top spot. For now, Champions League nights are back! And Neville, Carragher etc are proven privileged idiots again...
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Parties have also clarified that counterclaims will not have res judicata effects for proceedings brought under their domestic law (Article 16.3) and that the making of a counterclaim is not to be deemed a waiver of their jurisdictional objections (Article 16.4).
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The India-Uzbekistan Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT), signed in September last year, has entered into force today. Notably, the India-Uzbekistan BIT is the first Indian BIT to explicitly allow the BIT parties to make counterclaims. Text:
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