Tag: Human Rights

Should feeding stray dogs be banned?

By Rohin DubeyConstitutional Law
Humans have lived in harmony with dogs for over 30,000 years. But what that means now is no longer clear. Animal activists have long argued that stray dogs have an inalienable right to life and food and no one should be prevented to feed dogs that reside in their communities.…

Sanctimonious Surrogacy

By Ranjeev C DubeyConstitutional Law
It’s not just death and taxes that are certain: it’s also the law’s voyeuristic interest in the bedrooms of citizens! We have long struggled with the manner in which the law minds our private business. 2015 saw a bitter battle to determine if the law should decide which human orifices…

Is IPR moral?

By Ranjeev C DubeyIntellectual Property Law
Consider this scenario. A dominant world power forces all other countries to sign a treaty acknowledging that its IPR will be respected. It then creates laws allowing its citizens to register food grain grown in other nations as original inventions in its own country. The world power now uses the…