Call for Blogs| RGNUL’s RFMLR Sidebar Blogs on Digital Commerce and FinTech: Submit by Oct 11

About the Organizers

RGNUL Financial and Mercantile Law Review (RFMLR) is a bi-annual, double-blind peer-reviewed law journal published by the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab. The journal was first published in the year 2014 and gives an opportunity to the legal academia, legal professionals, and law students to contribute cutting-edge, doctrinal, theoretical, and empirical research in the field of business and commercial laws. The Editorial Board also collaborates with legal experts and undertakes various academic initiatives to promote study and research in the field of business and commercial laws.

The blog series aims to encourage an insightful discourse around the legal landscape surrounding FinTech and digitization of financial services by inviting submissions from legal academicians, practitioners, lawyers, legal experts, and students.

Topic

In an attempt to encourage insightful discourse in the legal landscape around “FinTech”, the Editorial Board of RFMLR is now inviting blog submissions from legal academicians, practitioners, lawyers, legal experts, and student.

Eligibility

The Editorial Board invites blog submissions from legal practitioners, professionals, academicians and law students

Sub-Theme(Illustrative)

FinTech and Digital Payments

• RBI Guidelines on Digital Lending: Protecting the Borrower
• Neo-banking and the Regulatory Concerns
• RBI’s Report on QR Code: Future of Contactless Transactions
• An Analysis of RBI’s “Guidelines on Regulation of Payment Aggregators and Payment Gateways, 2020”
• Open Banking: A Step Towards Financial Inclusion in India?
• Account Aggregator Framework in India: A Critical Appraisal
• Introduction of Numberless Cards for Teenagers: Pros and Cons
• Significance of UPI for Digital Trade and Legal Issues
• Reimagining the Future of Digital Transactions vis-à-vis Blockchain Technology
• Reforms in Legal Framework for Card Transactions in India
• Role of NPCI in Promoting Digital Payments in India: A Legal Analysis
• Digital KYC and Blockchain-based Portable KYC Solution: Feasibility and Regulatory Concerns
• Peer-to-peer Lending Landscape in India
• FinTech vs. TechFin
• Tokenisation and its impact on Financial Markets
• The European Data Protection Board’s Guidelines 06/2020 on the interplay of the Second Payment Services Directive and the GDPR.

E-Commerce

• Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020: An Analysis
• Blockchain Technology: The Driving Force for E-Commerce in Future

Virtual Currency and Regulatory Issues

• Central Bank and Digital Currency: Feasibility, Regulatory Challenges and its Impact on International Trade
• Cryptocurrency Regulation in India in the context of the Internet and Mobile Association of India v. Reserve Bank of Indiaand the draft “Banning of Cryptocurrency and regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill, 2019”

Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) in the Digital World

• Transition from ADR to ODR: Inevitability and Legal Challenges
• Development of Blockchain Arbitration in India and Legal Challenges

Corporate Espionage

• Corporate Espionage in the Cyberspace and the need of a new Trade Secret Law in India

Intermediary Liability and Concerns for Digital Economy

• Chinese App Ban – Legality in Domestic and International Law
• Sharing of Source Code: “Public Interest” vs. IPR Rights of Companies

Submission Procedure 

• The author(s) shall submit the manuscript along with the duly signed Certificate of Originality and Copyright via Google Form here.
• The Editorial Board strives to communicate its decision regarding publication of the blog at the earliest. Ordinarily, the author(s) shall be apprised of the decision of the Editorial Board within a fortnight from the date of submission.
• The author(s) shall, therefore, refrain from sending any follow-up emails to the Editorial Board.
• All queries shall be sent to the Editorial Board at [email protected].

Submission Deadline

The submissions shall be sent to the Editorial Board through Google form (here) by October 11, 2020.

Contact

Write to the Editorial Board: [email protected].

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