Deepa Raghavan

In an age where a virus can cross borders faster than diplomacy, bioterrorism has emerged as one of the most silent yet dangerous threats to national and global security. This paper will illustrate why bioterrorism is not only a security issue but also a failure in global governance, preparedness, and ethics in managing scientific knowledge. Unlike other security issues, bioterrorism is situated where the realms of biology, geopolitics, and ethics converge, thereby rendering global frames...

Executive Summary The DPDP Act, 2023, is the first comprehensive data protection law regime of India, whereby individuals have the right to control their personal data. The strength of the DPDP Act, 2023, lies in the fact that it provides for a legislative privacy regime, removes barriers for data compliance, and provides flexible rules for cross-border data transfers. However, the DPDP Act, 2023, also features several weaknesses.  It curbs the autonomy of the DPDB, provides wide exemptions...

Briefly being publicly stated in 2001, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) was actually the result of decades of international efforts to address the major atrocity crimes and rethink the boundaries of state sovereignty (Anon, 2021). Even before the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS) released its seminal report, post-war international organisations that struggled to address serious violations such as following - systematic discrimination, ethnic cleansing,...