Digital in Form, Analog in Function: The Limits of Tribunal Digitisation in India
India’s tribunal reform discourse often treats digitisation as a question of introducing e-filing, virtual hearings, and online access to basic case information.
Appellate Review of Expert Regulators: Deference, Jurisdiction, and Scope
India's regulatory appellate architecture rests on a foundational but underarticulated premise that appellate review of expert regulatory decisions should be corrective rather than substitutive.
Legal Complexity and the Limits of Tribunal Adjudication
Legal disputes characteristically arise not at the settled core of doctrine but at its penumbra, where evolving economic and social realities strain inherited conceptual categories.
Epistemic Asymmetry and the Limits of Appellate Review in Competition Enforcement
Digital platform markets challenge conventional modes of competition enforcement by amplifying feedback effects, cumulative advantage, and temporal irreversibility.
Understanding Regulatory Episteme as How Regulators See the World
The real world is complex, and mostly beyond human comprehension. Even the simplest phenomena like birds flying in geometrically-shaped flocks, or termites coordinating to build castles matching the best of human architecture perplexes us, exposing the limitations of our cognition.
Information Utilities and the Epistemic Tension in the IBC Architecture
This blog examines the role of Information Utilities (IUs) in India’s Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code and argues that their current design and functioning exhibit instances of epistemic fragmentation.
