The India Business Law Journal is a monthly magazine (published 10 times a year) that specializes in providing detailed and comprehensive analysis of the legal, financial and regulatory scenario challenges that feature prominently in the Indian business world. Among other things, this journal seeks to provide vital intelligence to the subscribers (
The focus areas of the journal include intellectual property law, corporate finance, taxation, dispute resolution, mergers and acquisitions, labour law, FDI regulations and many more disciplines. Its contents involve information on all major sectors including IT, telecoms, infrastructure, biotechnology, finance, power and outsourcing, critical analysis of the underlying legal structure of significant business transactions. Further information about the journal can be obtained from the link available at the Spicy IP Website (here) or from here.
In what ought to be perceived as a laudable move, the journal has decided to offer 200 free annual subscriptions, each worth US$790 to law students (both graduate & post-graduate) at academic institutions in India. To qualify for the said free subscription, one has to be a full-time LLB or LLM student at a recognized academic institution in
This move ought to be welcomed by the Indian law students, who are in the best position to truly appreciate the value of quality legal journals being available to facilitate legal research and scholarship (and perhaps also to fill in the necessity of substantiating that n-th number of footnote!). One wonders whether this is the first step that will be followed by other leading law journals too. Perhaps nothing will be able to match the state of euphoria that law students will be in then!
[This post is actually to be attributed to Ms. Prakruthi P. Gowda; I’m merely filling in for her owing to her being unavoidably indisposed otherwise]
