There is an evident lack of implementation of Machine Learning (ML) in the legal domain in India,... more There is an evident lack of implementation of Machine Learning (ML) in the legal domain in India, and any research that does take place in this domain is usually based on data from the higher courts of law and works with English data. The lower courts and data from the different regional languages of India are often overlooked. In this paper, we deploy a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture on a corpus of Hindi legal documents. We perform a bail Prediction task with the help of a CNN model and achieve an overall accuracy of 93\% which is an improvement on the benchmark accuracy, set by Kapoor et al. (2022), albeit in data from 20 districts of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
This report describes the 2 nd edition of the Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Law (SAIL)... more This report describes the 2 nd edition of the Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Law (SAIL) organized as a virtual event during June 6--9, 2022. The aim of SAIL is to bring together experts from the industry and the academia to discuss the scope and future of AI as applied to the legal domain. The symposium is also meant to foster collaborations between researchers of the following communities: Law, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, and Natural Language Processing. Eminent researchers working on AI and Law in both the academia and the industry were invited to deliver talks at this symposium. Date: 6--9 June, 2022. Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sail-2022/.
In this article, we seek to delineate the nature of India’s ongoing constitutional struggles agai... more In this article, we seek to delineate the nature of India’s ongoing constitutional struggles against a grave crisis, considering the threat that such crisis poses to the functioning of the country’s constitutional democracy. Using the acceptable definitive models of such a crisis, we then try to examine the extent to which India’s constitutional struggle might have been necessary in order to confront such a crisis. The role played by the deliberate usage of the legal and prima facie constitutional routes to render the very spirit and safeguards of the constitutional system redundant, or the concept of autocratic legalism, as a singular symptom displayed by such a crisis, is focused upon in this context. We draw analogies from multiple jurisdictions with myriad political legacies, including the USA, Poland, Hungary, Turkey, Russia and the Latin American nations. Increasing the judicial burden to cripple the adjudicating machinery; appointment of judges exhibiting specific political i...
With the onset of the recession and gradual collapse of hedge funds, investment banks and mercant... more With the onset of the recession and gradual collapse of hedge funds, investment banks and mercantile firms apart from state-owned central banks across the Western hemisphere, the study of the types and sources of wealth possessed by Governments is of utmost importance. Although the international investment climate is in doldrums, business is booming as far as India is concerned. In this article, the authors seek to trace a primary study of the concept, functions and operations of sovereign wealth funds. Special emphasis has been laid on the manner in which Governments employ and utilize such funds. In conclusion, the authors have attempted to establish links between global politics and diplomacy on international investments and the effects of the former on the investments made by states.
Although not popularly perceived as a major cause for augmenting the refugee problem worldwide, f... more Although not popularly perceived as a major cause for augmenting the refugee problem worldwide, forced migration owing to environmental disasters has nonetheless undergone an exponential expansion, thereby assuming considerable significance in the arena of international refugee law. In course of this paper, the author has sought to examine the suitability of said branch of law to deal with the consequences of environmental migration and accord sufficient protection to such migrants. The paper begins with a brief overview of various environmental concerns that can lead to migration and then goes on to check the eligibility of such migrants to non-refoulement protection under the Refugee Convention or other regional instruments. The key role played by the principle of non-refoulement in customary international law has also been discussed in the process, along with the status of the principle of temporary protection in situations of mass influx in customary international law. Among the...
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2021
There is an evident lack of implementation of Machine Learning (ML) in the legal domain in India,... more There is an evident lack of implementation of Machine Learning (ML) in the legal domain in India, and any research that does take place in this domain is usually based on data from the higher courts of law and works with English data. The lower courts and data from the different regional languages of India are often overlooked. In this paper, we deploy a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture on a corpus of Hindi legal documents. We perform a bail Prediction task with the help of a CNN model and achieve an overall accuracy of 93\% which is an improvement on the benchmark accuracy, set by Kapoor et al. (2022), albeit in data from 20 districts of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
This report describes the 2 nd edition of the Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Law (SAIL)... more This report describes the 2 nd edition of the Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Law (SAIL) organized as a virtual event during June 6--9, 2022. The aim of SAIL is to bring together experts from the industry and the academia to discuss the scope and future of AI as applied to the legal domain. The symposium is also meant to foster collaborations between researchers of the following communities: Law, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, and Natural Language Processing. Eminent researchers working on AI and Law in both the academia and the industry were invited to deliver talks at this symposium. Date: 6--9 June, 2022. Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sail-2022/.
In this article, we seek to delineate the nature of India’s ongoing constitutional struggles agai... more In this article, we seek to delineate the nature of India’s ongoing constitutional struggles against a grave crisis, considering the threat that such crisis poses to the functioning of the country’s constitutional democracy. Using the acceptable definitive models of such a crisis, we then try to examine the extent to which India’s constitutional struggle might have been necessary in order to confront such a crisis. The role played by the deliberate usage of the legal and prima facie constitutional routes to render the very spirit and safeguards of the constitutional system redundant, or the concept of autocratic legalism, as a singular symptom displayed by such a crisis, is focused upon in this context. We draw analogies from multiple jurisdictions with myriad political legacies, including the USA, Poland, Hungary, Turkey, Russia and the Latin American nations. Increasing the judicial burden to cripple the adjudicating machinery; appointment of judges exhibiting specific political i...
With the onset of the recession and gradual collapse of hedge funds, investment banks and mercant... more With the onset of the recession and gradual collapse of hedge funds, investment banks and mercantile firms apart from state-owned central banks across the Western hemisphere, the study of the types and sources of wealth possessed by Governments is of utmost importance. Although the international investment climate is in doldrums, business is booming as far as India is concerned. In this article, the authors seek to trace a primary study of the concept, functions and operations of sovereign wealth funds. Special emphasis has been laid on the manner in which Governments employ and utilize such funds. In conclusion, the authors have attempted to establish links between global politics and diplomacy on international investments and the effects of the former on the investments made by states.
Although not popularly perceived as a major cause for augmenting the refugee problem worldwide, f... more Although not popularly perceived as a major cause for augmenting the refugee problem worldwide, forced migration owing to environmental disasters has nonetheless undergone an exponential expansion, thereby assuming considerable significance in the arena of international refugee law. In course of this paper, the author has sought to examine the suitability of said branch of law to deal with the consequences of environmental migration and accord sufficient protection to such migrants. The paper begins with a brief overview of various environmental concerns that can lead to migration and then goes on to check the eligibility of such migrants to non-refoulement protection under the Refugee Convention or other regional instruments. The key role played by the principle of non-refoulement in customary international law has also been discussed in the process, along with the status of the principle of temporary protection in situations of mass influx in customary international law. Among the...
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2021
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