Phd. Thesis

Antinomies in Criminal Justice System: A Normative Critique of Pre-trial Detention Laws.

Books

2025: Criminalization – Politics and Policies, Brill
2025: Criminalization – Where do we go from here, Brill.
2024: A Primer on Aviation and Space Arbitration, Integrity Education.
2022: Specialized Arbitration: Emerging International Trends and Practices, Thomson Reuters.
2021: Commercial Arbitration: International Trends and Practices, Thomson Reuters.
2021: Handbook on Investment Arbitration in India, MNLU Mumbai.
2020: Revisiting Reforms in Criminal Justice System in India, Thomson Reuters.

Select Book Chapters

2025: Criminalization: Reflection on theories. Studies in Critical Social Sciences. Brill. (Scopus)
2025: Criminalization: An introduction. Studies in Critical Social Sciences. Brill. (Scopus)
2025: Pre-trial detention in India: Antinomies in liberal theory of justice. Taylor & Francis. (Accepted -Scopus)
2024: Pre-trial detention in India: The need for introduction of objective criterion. In S. Gurpur, B. S. Ronald, A. Mohanty, & A. F. Shelke (Eds.), Rule of law in context: Globalisation and Indian resonances to sustainable development. Taylor & Francis. (Scopus)
2024: Introduction to ADR mechanisms in Ayush Pandey and S.N. Mishra, Dispute Resolution in India: Mechanism to Access Justice in Modern World (Satyam Law International).
2023: Arbitrability of Intellectual Property Disputes in India: A Developing Country Perspective in Pallab Das, Contemporary Perspective on International Arbitration Practice: Decoding Global Trends (Thomson Reuters)
2022: Preventive justice in a democratic state. In S. A. Khan & H. Sayyed (Eds.), Crime prevention and crime control: An Indian perspective (pp. 39–60). Thomson Reuters.
2021: Arbitrability of Disputes in India in Chirag Balyan and Yashraj Samant, Commercial Arbitration: International Trends and Practices (Thomson Reuters).
2020: Bail or Jail: The Antinomies In Liberal Theory and the Way Forward in Salman Khurshid Et. Al. Taking Bail Seriously: The State Of Bail Jurisprudence In India (Lexis Nexis) at 79-86.
2020: Overcriminalisation in India. In D. Ukey et al. (Eds.), Revisiting the reforms in criminal justice system in India (pp. 296–314). Thomson Reuters.
2020: Citizenship and liberal criminal law: A critique on contemporary criminal law developments in India. In D. Ukey et al. (Eds.), Revisiting the reforms in criminal justice system in India (pp. 244–258). Thomson Reuters.
2020: Administrative Powers, Roles and Responsibilities of the Chief Justice of India in Lokendra Malik And Yogesh Pratap, Supreme Court And The Constitution: An Indian Discourse (Wolters Kluwer) at 206-244.
2020: Criminalizing Marital Rape in India. in Dilip Ukey Et. Al., Revisiting The Reforms In Criminal Justice System In India (Thomson Reuters 2020) at 271-283.
2020: Classical Autopsy vis-à-vis Digital Autopsy – An Analysis of Legal and Evidentiary Framework in India. in Dilip Ukey Et. Al., Revisiting The Reforms In Criminal Justice System In India (Thomson Reuters 2020) at 1-17.

Funded Research Projects

2025: Summary Trial in Bonded Labour, Major Project funded by IJM.(ongoing).
2024: Co-Director, Socio-Economic Impact of Atal Tinkering Labs and Atal Innovation Mission, Major Project Funded by ICSSR.
2024: Principal Investigator, Commercial Sexual Exploitation in Maharashtra, A Survey Report of Public Prosecutors in Maharashtra. Published by Government of Maharashtra, IJM, and MNLU Mumbai.
2021: Principal Investigator, Survey on Third Party Funding in India. Funded by MNLU Mumbai as Minor Research Project.

Policy Interventions

2025: Faculty-in-Charge, Comments for the Public Consultation of the Singapore International Arbitration Act, 1994 submitted to Ministry of Law, Singapore
2024: Faculty-in-Charge, Comments on Draft Arbitration and Conciliation Bill, 2024 submitted to Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India.
2020: Research Advisor, Comments on the Draft Code of Conduct for the Adjudicators in Investor-State Dispute Settlement submitted to ISDS and UNCITRAL.
2020: Research Advisor, Guide on Virtual Arbitration in India, published by Centre for Arbitration and Research, MNLU Mumbai.
2020: Principal Investigator, Report on Need for Reforms in Criminal Law, Submitted to Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India and Committee for Reforms in Criminal Law.

Select Journal Articles

2025: The Retributive Turn: How Indian Courts Transform Pre-Trial Detention into Punishment?”, Economic & Political Weekly (Accepted – Scopus).
2023: Primer on general principles of criminal liability in India. Jus Corpus Law Journal, 3(4), 125–138.
2023: Pre-trial Detention: a tool for instant justice? Quarterly Bar Review, pp. 25-30 (March, 2023).
2023: Defining the Contours of Non-Mediability, Journal of Namibian Studies, 35 (2023): 2873-2898.
2020: An Integrated Approach to Resolve the Crisis of Defections in India, Vol. VII, National Law University Orissa Journal.
2019: Critical Analysis of Sentencing Policy of the Apex Court in Respect to Offences Falling Under Exception to Section 200 of IPC, Indian Journal of Criminology, ISC-NLU Delhi 44&45 (2016-17).
2018: ‘Personal Search’ Under NDPS Act- Resolving Judicial Dilemma in Interpreting Section 50 Through Philosophical Discourse, 6(1) BLR 154- 165.
2017: Cryonics and Euthanasia – Debating Law and Ethics in Rights Framework, SVIL E Journal of Law.
2017: Life beyond life? Legal Implications of Cryonic Preservation, 5(3) BLR 12-25.
2017: Appropriation of Copyright After Death of Author – Tussle Between Heirs & Public, 1 Law Quest 120-125.

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