Rakesh Aggarwal Memorial National Conference, 2025 on Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 by GGSIPU: Submit by Jan 25

About the Institute

The Institute was established in the year 1999 under the auspices of the New Millennium Education Society and holds affiliation to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. Being NAAC Accredited and awarded with ‘A’ grade by the University, Government of National Capital Territory and State Fee Regulatory Committee, it melds state-of-the-art infrastructure imparting quality education through B.A. LL.B (H), BBA and BCA courses.

About School of Law

The School of Law of the Institute takes forward the mission and vision of the Institute and marks distinction by focusing and emphasizing the clinical legal education and instilling humanitarian values in addition to the intensive classroom programs.

About the Competition Commission of India (CCI)

Competition Commission of India is a regulatory body established by the Government of India with effect from October 14, 2003. The duty of the Commission is to eliminate practices having adverse effects on competition, promote and sustain competition, protect the interests of consumers and ensure freedom of trade in the markets of India. The Commission is also required to undertake competition advocacy, create public awareness and impart training on competition issues.

About the National Conference

The Ideal Institute of Management and Technology conducts National/International Level Conferences annually with an aim to facilitate knowledge sharing on Contemporary Legal Issues as well as to serve as a pivotal platform for legal professionals, scholars, students, and experts to converge on the topic. In the past, we have successfully organized multiple National as well as International Conferences on various legal and contemporary issues of significant importance whereby participants from pan-India presented their well researched papers adding much required knowledge, suggestions, criticisms etc to the said field.

Rakesh Aggarwal Memorial National Conference 2025 has decided the theme “The Intersection between Digital Data Protection Act, 2023 and the Anti Trust Regulation” to be held on 15th February, 2025. This is the second collaboration between School of Law, IIMT and Competition Commission of India to foster knowledge sharing and research on Competition policies and its future implications.

Structure of the Conference

The Conference shall be divided into two segments:

About the Theme

“The Intersection between Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the Antitrust Regulations”

Thematic Areas of Paper Presentation

Contribution in terms of research papers and case comments will be invited on the following proposed sub-topics for paper presentation:

• Legal Framework Governing Data Control in India
• Data privacy and market competition
• Challenges in enforcement and compliance of Competition Law and Data protection in the digital space in India
• Conflicts between privacy compliance and antitrust obligations
• Ethical and social dimensions of regulating data privacy and market fairness
• Technology and innovation in regulatory practices
• Data localization and cross-border data flows
• Implications of data control on market competition and consumer choice in India
• Small enterprises in navigating digital economies
• Role of data fiduciaries in competition
• Digital advertising and Data Control
• Nexus of cyber-security and antitrust
• Data portability and consumer empowerment
• Digital ecosystems and Data monopoly in contemporary times
• Challenges to regulatory enforcement and remedies for Data Privacy and Antitrust
• *Any other related area

Panel Discussion

For enhancement in knowledge of all the participants in the specialized field of Antitrust Regulations and Data Privacy, a panel discussion shall be organized with professionals/academics possessing expertise in these areas. The topics for the Round Table Conference are:

• Navigating the Digital Landscape: Balancing Data Privacy and Antitrust Regulations in India
• Antitrust Issues in Digital Platforms: Fair Competition and Consumer Welfare

About Call for Papers

The School of Law of the Institute cordially invites Research Papers on the Theme and Sub-Themes from Academicians, Researchers, Advocates, Students pursuing Law or any other Academic Degree as well as Stakeholders in this Sector to contribute towards determining and shaping the National Conference by their valuable submissions.

Conference Proceedings

(PUBLICATION OF ABSTRACTS AND FULL PAPERS)

All submitted Conference Papers would be blind peer-reviewed by the Review Committee and all the abstracts and selected papers would be published in the Conference Proceedings bearing ISBN No. 978-81- 937914-2-4 by the School of Law, IIMT.

The Certificate of Presentation and Participation/Attendee will be awarded to the Participants or Attendees respectively.

Registration Procedure

• The Authors and Co-Authors are required to fill the ‘Registration Form’ before submitting the ‘Abstract’ at [email protected] and on acceptance of the same a separate form for registration would be circulated for paper presentation.

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• The Authors and Co-Authors shall register along with submission of separate fees and the combined scanned copy of the payment of the Registration Fee receipt shall be uploaded in the Registration Form.
• Co-Authorship is permissible (subject to an upper limit of two authors per submission).
• The registration shall be confirmed and communicated only after the receipt of the fees is received.
• The participants shall forward their Paper as a reply to the confirmation mail sent by the organizers and the subject of the same shall be changed to “Submission of Paper for National Law Conference”.
• The selected participants shall present their paper(s) on the day of the conference.

Submission Guidelines

ABSTRACT

• The maximum word limit must not exceed five hundred (500) words and the same shall be inclusive of relevant keywords.
• The Author(s) shall specify the Title of the Paper, Name(s) & Designation of the Author(s), E-Mail Address(es) and Contact Number(s).
• All Abstracts should be submitted through E-Mail only.
• The Author(s) should clearly and precisely indicate the Sub-Theme on which the Abstract is based.

Note: The Abstracts shall be screened by the Review Committee. The Author(s) of the shortlisted Abstract(s) shall be intimated accordingly through mail.

Research Papers

• The maximum word limit of the Manuscript must not exceed Four Thousand to Ten Thousand (2,500 – 5,000) words (exclusive of the abstract and footnotes).
• The Paper must be accompanied by a cover letter which shall include the following details of the Author(s):
• Full Name(s) of Author and Co-AuthorProfessional/ Educational DetailsInstitutional/ Organizational/ University Affiliation
• The Paper should be in Microsoft Word .doc/.docx formats in Times New Roman Font with the font size of 12 along with 1.5 line spacing. The font size for the footnotes shall be 10 with single line spacing.Alignment – Justified, No Page Borders, Margin 1 inch on each side.The heading encompassed in the main text of the paper shall be divided under different levels and the same shall be formatted as follows:
• Level One: Numbered and in the centre.Level Two: Left aligned and in bold letters.Level Three: Left aligned and italicized.
• The writings must conform to the Indian Law Institute style of citation.The Paper must begin with the subject matter of the study and shall:
• Include Literature review;State the problem and hypothesis, andExamine the hypothesis and provide conclusion and suggestions.
• The submission should be the original work of the Author(s), and should not have been submitted for publication/ published elsewhere in any form.
• The submission is subject to strict plagiarism check and any unattributed work is liable to be rejected.

Registration Procedure

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Registration Fee

PAPER PRESENTERS

Professionals and Academicians –  Rs. 1000/- Research Scholars and Students –  Rs. 750/- ATTENDEES -Rs. 500/-

Registration fee must be paid through the below-mentioned online link.

Payment Details

• Online Link: https://eps.eshiksa.net/DirectFeesv3/IIMTLaw Programme Code: Law Conference 2025
• Institutional Area: Ideal Institute of Management & Technology (School of Law)
• Please note: Receipt of payment should be attached with the online registration form.

Important Dates

• Last Date of Abstract Submission-25th January, 2025 (Saturday)
• Notification of Selection of Abstracts – 28th January, 2025 (Tuesday) Last Date of Registration &
• Payment of Registration Fee – 31st January, 2025 (Friday)
• Date of Full Paper Submission – 31st January, 2025 (Friday)
• Date of Paper Presentation – 5th February, 2025 (Saturday)

Organizing Comittee

For any further details please contact Convening Team

• Sangeetha Abraham, Associate Professor (Convener, Rakesh Aggarwal Memorial National Conference) +91-9718018421
• Ms. Anukriti Gupta, Assistant Professor (Convener, Rakesh Aggarwal Memorial National Conference) [email protected]