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Beyond the headline,into the record

Legal Chronicle is a student-led publication for deeper legal thinking — explainers that hold up under scrutiny, case analysis you can actually follow, research with a visible trail of sources, and practical legal skills for a profession that is changing fast.

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01 — Mandate

Most legal writing arrives either too shallow to trust or too dense to read. We publish explainers that hold up under scrutiny, case analysis a non-specialist can follow, and research with a visible trail of sources — every claim cited, every ruling explained, every argument held to one standard.

02 — Current issue2 June 2026
Research · Contract Law & Technology
Research · Contract Law & Technology

Who Owns the Breach? Liability in Smart Contracts

When code executes a bargain without a human in the loop, contract law's oldest questions — who promised what, and who answers for failure — don't disappear. They just get harder to answer.

Kabir Mehta11 min read5 sources
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ArticleWhat Is Public Interest Litigation, Actually?PILs let someone file a case on behalf of people who can't easily approach a court themselves. That flexibility is also what makes the tool easy to misuse — by both sides.
AI & Legal SkillsDrafting a Legal Memo That Holds Up Under QuestioningA memo that only states a conclusion is a guess with formatting. A memo that survives someone pushing back on it shows its work at every step.
AI & Legal SkillsHow to Build a Legal Research Trail From ScratchGood legal research is reproducible. If you can't show how you got from question to answer, you don't yet have an answer — you have a guess with citations attached.
03 — The index

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04 — What we publish

Four pillars, one standard

Judgments read closely and explained in order — what the court was asked, what it actually held, and what changes for everyone downstream of the ruling.Browse Law

Longer pieces with a declared method and a visible trail of sources, so a reader can retrace every step of the argument rather than take it on trust.Browse Research

Argued positions from the editorial desk, clearly labelled as argument — on how legal institutions are designed and where that design falls short.Browse Perspective

Practical craft for a profession under pressure from new tools: research method, drafting, citation discipline, and using AI without cutting corners.Browse Skills

05 — By the numbers

Every figure below is drawn from published work, not ambition. The source count is the one we hold ourselves to.

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06 — Position
“A good statute enforced slowly is not much better than no statute. The DPDP Act's real test is the Data Protection Board, not its text.”
Aditi Rao

Opinion: the author argues enforcement infrastructure, not statutory language, will determine whether the DPDP Act succeeds.

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07 — The desk

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08 — Write for us

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Write clearly.
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