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Selected academic and public writing. In all, more than 150 published works across journals, edited books and newspapers.

Journal articles

  1. Article on the Aircraft Objects Act, 2025 and aviation insolvencyInternational Journal of Law Management & Humanities, Vol. 9, Issue 3 (2026)
  2. Article on the EWS reservation modelInternational Journal of Law Management & Humanities, Vol. 9, Issue 1 (2026)
  3. Article on the fundamental right to clean airIndian Journal of Legal Affairs and Research, Vol. 3, Issue 1 (2026)
  4. Ministerial Accountability, Democratic Ethics and the Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill, 2025: A Critical Constitutional StudyInternational Journal of Advanced Legal Research, Vol. 6, Issue 2 (2025)
  5. Suitability of "Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage" Theory in Current ScenarioInternational Journal for Legal Research and Analysis, Vol. 2, Issue 6 (2022)
  6. Contemplating Adultery as Offence if the Paradox and Gender Biases Are RemovedIndian Journal of Integrated Research in Law, Vol. II, Issue III (2022); indexed in HeinOnline
  7. Decriminalisation of Adultery: Not a Licence to be AdulterousHNLU Student Bar Journal (2020)

Book chapters

  1. Labor Economics of Autonomous Agent Integration: Displacement and CreationIn Legal Governance of Agentic AI and Autonomous Agents: Regulating the Future of Work, Routledge (forthcoming January 2027), ISBN 9781041288480
  2. Legal Protection of Same-Sex Marriage: A Comparison Between India and Europe (The Netherlands and Romania)In Global Comparison on Legal Protection for Same Sex Marriage, Lex Memento (accepted, 2026)
  3. Breaking the Silence on Female Perpetrators of Domestic ViolenceIn From Abused to Abuser, edited volume (2023)

Conference papers

  1. Reassessing Maintenance Jurisprudence: When Maintenance Exceeds Need, Creating Unreasonable Burden and Unjust EnrichmentInternational Conference on Indian Knowledge System in the context of NEP 2020 (2026)
  2. Embedding Intellectual Property in National Development Strategies: Pathways to the SDGs in Developing and Least Developed Countries2nd South Asian Global Intellectual Property Conference (2025)
  3. Bridging the Justice Divide: Empowering Marginalised Communities through the DISHA SchemeNational Seminar on Social Justice and Legal Empowerment (2025)

Columns and public writing

  1. Election sops: The proviso protects promises, not paymentsBar & Bench, 8 October 2026, with Nupur Chaurasia
  2. Newspaper columns and editorials, 2014 to the presentHindustan Times, The Indian Express, The Statesman, Herald, Greater Kashmir, Rising Kashmir, The Asian Age, State Times and others, and The Daily Observer, Bangladesh
  3. The Oxygen Divide: Why India's Air Pollution is a Crisis of InequalityVirtuosity Legal, Faculty of Law, Aligarh Muslim University (2026), invited
  4. Biographical writing on Bhagat SinghExcerpted in Hindustan Times (2016)

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