https://amritasinha.in/ Essays on constitutional law, cyber law, child rights and women's rights in India. en-in https://amritasinha.in/writing/who-owns-copyright-ai-generated-work https://amritasinha.in/writing/who-owns-copyright-ai-generated-work Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0530 A book or a painting made by a machine, with no real human contribution, is an original work under Indian law. The Copyright Act then has nobody to give it to. https://amritasinha.in/writing/nine-judges-asked-to-abolish-pil https://amritasinha.in/writing/nine-judges-asked-to-abolish-pil Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Public interest litigation gave India most of what Article 21 now means. A nine-judge bench is being asked to abolish it, and costs are doing the work in the meantime. https://amritasinha.in/writing/how-to-read-a-judgment https://amritasinha.in/writing/how-to-read-a-judgment Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Reading a judgment is extraction, not reading. The anatomy of an Indian judgment, how to read it out of order, and what the Indian courts have said about finding the ratio. https://amritasinha.in/writing/nirbhaya-changed-the-law-not-the-bus https://amritasinha.in/writing/nirbhaya-changed-the-law-not-the-bus Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0530 After 2012 India wrote one of the most severe sexual offence codes in the world, and also a rule requiring a panic button in every public service vehicle. In May the Supreme Court found fewer than one per cent comply. https://amritasinha.in/writing/nlsiu-should-not-have-cancelled-its-convocation https://amritasinha.in/writing/nlsiu-should-not-have-cancelled-its-convocation Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Students objected to two guests. The university responded by cancelling the ceremony for everyone, and called the reason unavoidable. Neither part of that is right. https://amritasinha.in/writing/right-to-safe-roads-potholes-india https://amritasinha.in/writing/right-to-safe-roads-potholes-india Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 A pothole death is now worth six lakh rupees in Maharashtra, because a court treated it as a breach of Article 21. Where that right comes from, and why almost nobody can enforce it. https://amritasinha.in/writing/neutral-citation-india https://amritasinha.in/writing/neutral-citation-india Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 One judgment can carry five different citations. Only one of them was given to the case by the court that decided it. What the Supreme Court actually prescribed, and why it belongs first. https://amritasinha.in/writing/who-is-responsible-when-ai-gives-wrong-information https://amritasinha.in/writing/who-is-responsible-when-ai-gives-wrong-information Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 When an AI invents a case and an advocate cites it, India now has an answer about who is responsible. It runs in one direction only. https://amritasinha.in/writing/the-arrears-that-were-never-barred https://amritasinha.in/writing/the-arrears-that-were-never-barred Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Maintenance arrears are routinely refused as time-barred after a year. The Supreme Court settled that they are not in 2005, again in 2013, and again in 2020. https://amritasinha.in/writing/the-cruelty-that-leaves-no-marks https://amritasinha.in/writing/the-cruelty-that-leaves-no-marks Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Indian law has recognised mental cruelty since 1988. What it has never solved is how to prove it, and the only witness is often dead. https://amritasinha.in/writing/the-rule-the-bar-council-forgot-it-wrote https://amritasinha.in/writing/the-rule-the-bar-council-forgot-it-wrote Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 The Bar Council barred a graduating batch from enrolment for objecting to a judge. Its own rules protect an advocate who does exactly that. https://amritasinha.in/writing/how-to-do-legal-research-in-india https://amritasinha.in/writing/how-to-do-legal-research-in-india Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 From the moment a matter walks in to the note you actually write: fixing the facts, finding the statute, searching for authority, reading a judgment properly, and checking it is still good law. https://amritasinha.in/writing/why-indian-lawyers-cite-cases-they-have-not-read https://amritasinha.in/writing/why-indian-lawyers-cite-cases-they-have-not-read Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 The Supreme Court has called fake AI citations misconduct. But it has been complaining that counsel cite judgments they have not read since 1967. https://amritasinha.in/writing/why-you-cannot-study-law-part-time https://amritasinha.in/writing/why-you-cannot-study-law-part-time Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 There is no upper age limit on studying law in India. There is a rule that the degree must be full-time, which shuts out anyone who must earn. https://amritasinha.in/writing/the-word-that-kept-the-father-first https://amritasinha.in/writing/the-word-that-kept-the-father-first Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Githa Hariharan is remembered as the case that made mothers guardians. It did something narrower, and the hierarchy it was asked to dismantle is still standing. https://amritasinha.in/writing/the-veto-that-cannot-be-vetoed-away https://amritasinha.in/writing/the-veto-that-cannot-be-vetoed-away Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0530 The Security Council's five permanent members hold a veto over resolutions, and, through Article 108, a veto over abolishing the veto itself. https://amritasinha.in/writing/the-report-she-could-not-answer https://amritasinha.in/writing/the-report-she-could-not-answer Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0530 A child's custody can turn on a report she is never shown and a conversation no one records. The right to be heard is empty if being heard leaves no trace. https://amritasinha.in/writing/the-one-age-india-wont-fix https://amritasinha.in/writing/the-one-age-india-wont-fix Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Indian law fixes an age whenever it needs to bind an institution. It fixes none when the question is whether to listen to the child. https://amritasinha.in/writing/the-ban-india-should-not-copy https://amritasinha.in/writing/the-ban-india-should-not-copy Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0530 A blanket ban on children's social media would fail India's proportionality test and silence children who are speakers in their own right.