Below is a comprehensive list of research and article writing topics in Banking Law, Hindu Succession, Evidence Law, Criminal Law, and Civil Law, curated specifically for law students and researchers:
Banking Law
- Legal implications of digital lending platforms in India: regulating app-based microloans
- Cyber-fraud and banking law: RBI’s role in domain-name controls and banking security
- Legal challenges in cross-border fintech payments under Indian banking regulation
- Regulatory sandbox frameworks in banking law: assessment of innovation vs consumer protection
- Data privacy obligations of banks under IT & banking laws in India
- Legal liability of banks for account freezing without due process
- Insolvency and bankruptcy of banks: interplay between IBC and banking regulation
- Legal regulation of sustainable finance (green bonds) in banks in India
- Banking regulation for cooperative banks: reforms, governance and supervisory challenges
- Legal issues in bank-customer contracts and T&Cs in Indian banking law
- Legal aspects of bank mergers & acquisitions in India: due diligence and regulatory compliance
- Bank-fintech partnerships: contractual frameworks and regulatory risks
- Consumer protection in banking: evolving Ombudsman schemes and DPI guidelines
- Legal treatment of cryptocurrency & banks—indirect regulation under banking law
- Priority sector lending obligations: legal enforcement and banking law compliance
- Banking regulation for NBFCs and their borrowing rights: legal interface
- Digital banking licences and virtual banks in India: legal feasibility and regulatory design
- Legal frameworks for Open Banking and APIs in Indian banking law
- AML (Anti-Money Laundering) regulation and banks: legal obligations and enforcement
- Banking laws and climate change risk: legal duty of banks to disclose climate risks
- Contractual liability of banks for wrongful foreclosure under SARFAESI & DRAT/DRT route
- Legal developments in branchless banking and banking correspondents in rural India
- Banking regulation of payment banks: legal viability and consumer risk
- Legal status of bank guarantee vs letter of credit: comparative banking contract law
- Impact of RBI digital lending guidelines (2024-25) on unregulated lenders and the banking-law interface
Hindu Succession (Succession & Inheritance Law)
- Interaction of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, with Scheduled Tribes: law and practice
- Impact of the 2005 Amendment on coparcenary rights of daughters: an empirical study
- Intersectionality in inheritance laws: caste, gender and region under HSA
- Digital assets and ancestral property: legal challenges in Hindu succession law
- Extrajudicial settlement vs partition suits under Hindu succession law: reform proposals
- Comparative Study of Hindu Succession and Muslim Succession Law Reforms in India
- Life-interest vs absolute interest in ancestral property: evolving jurisprudence
- Inheritance rights of adopted children under the Hindu Succession Act
- Mitakshara vs Dayabhaga systems: relevance in modern Hindu succession law
- Testamentary freedom in Hindu succession law: scope, limits and reform
- Rights of widows under Hindu Succession and changes in family law practice
- Digital record keeping of succession deeds: legal validity and reform under HSA
- Impact of migration and diaspora on Hindu succession rights of daughters
- Succession rights in blended families (step-children) under Hindu law
- Ancestral property and rights of female heirs before and after HSA amendments
- Partition deeds registered online: legal validity and issues under succession law
- Disinheritance practices in Hindu law: culture, court decisions and reform
- Settlement deeds and rights of pre-deceased heirs under the HSA framework
- Impact of bankruptcy/insolvency of Hindu coparceners on succession rights
- Digital property and NFTs: how Hindu succession law treats intangible inheritances
- Rights of grandchildren and great-grandchildren in Hindu succession: legal clarity
- Succession issues in mixed-religion marriages under Hindu law
- Role of alternative dispute resolution in family property partition under HSA
- Gender justice and Hindu succession law: implementation gaps and legal reform
- Comparative Asian perspective: inheritance rights of daughters in Hindu law in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka
Evidence Law
- Implications of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, replacing the Indian Evidence Act: transitional issues
- Digital evidence and e-forensics in India: legal admissibility under modern evidence law
- Privilege and confidentiality in corporate communications: evidence law reforms
- Admissibility of AI-generated evidence in Indian courts: legal challenges
- Expert evidence and standards of reliability: evolving law in India
- Chain of custody in cybercrime evidence: Indian jurisprudence and reform
- Evidence law, and human-rights trials: issues of fair-trial and disclosure
- Electronic records and hearsay under the new evidence law: Indian perspective
- New approach to witness anonymity and protection under evidence reforms
- Presumption of death and evidentiary standards: comparative study
- Evidence law in arbitration and mediation: interplay between ADR and courts
- Admissibility of confessions under custodial conditions: reform post-2023 codes
- Use of social-media evidence in Indian litigation: authenticity and relevancy issues
- Evidence law, and adolescent testimony: legal protections and reform
- Reinventing the chain of evidence in biometric and blockchain records
- Evidence law in financial crime trials: proof of money-laundering in India
- Relevance and admissibility of voice-analysis evidence: Indian legal issues
- Evidence, law & cultural evidence: indigenous practices and courts
- Comparative study of evidence law reforms in India and Commonwealth jurisdictions
- Documentary evidence and digital signatures: legal validation under modern law
- Witness tampering and use of technology: legal safeguards under evidence law
- Private prosecution and production of evidence: evolving Indian law
- Forensic science and evidence law: reform of labs, accreditation and admissibility
- Evidence, law and rights of the accused in 2023-24 criminal law overhaul
- Implementation of statutory notice and disclosure obligations: evidence of law reforms
Criminal Law
- Legal implications of the replacement of IPC with Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023: transitional crimes
- Cyber-slavery and forced digital criminality: law and policy responses
- Criminal law reform and victims’ rights: emerging jurisprudence
- Regulation of AI in policing and predictive crime: constitutional and criminal-law issues
- Financing of terrorism and new legal definitions under Indian law
- White-collar crime and cryptocurrency laundering: current trends and legal response
- Sentencing reforms under new criminal codes: proportionality and rehabilitation
- Procedural safeguards in new criminal process statutes: rights of the accused under Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
- Consent, coercion and sexual offences: evolving law post-2023 reforms
- Environmental crimes and climate-justice offences: inclusion in the criminal code
- Private policing and corporate criminal liability in India
- Victim impact statements and compensation in criminal law: Indian law developments
- Transnational organised crime, smuggling and criminal liability: Indian context
- Juvenile justice and emerging digital crimes by minors: legal challenges
- Forensic DNA evidence and chain of custody in criminal trials
- Prison reform and custodial death liability: criminal-law implementation
- Hate speech, online violence and new criminal offences in India
- Drone-enabled crime and regulatory framework: criminal law challenges
- Illegal lending platforms and criminal enforcement in India’s financial sector
- Cyber-fraud, phishing, and bank-fraud liabilities under criminal law
- Criminal liability of public officials under new codes: corruption reform
- Victims’ right to appeal acquittals: recent Indian Supreme Court evolution
- Corporate manslaughter and new liability regimes in India
- Use of algorithms and facial recognition in investigation: constitutional & criminal-law issues
- Electronic evidence in criminal trials: new evidentiary standards and criminal procedure
Civil Law
- Remedies for breach of contract in consumer disputes: new patterns of relief
- Class-action suits in India: civil procedure and law reform
- Digital contracts and smart contracts: legal enforceability under Indian civil law
- Tort of defamation and internet intermediaries: Indian legal responses
- Privacy torts: evolving civil-law norms in India
- Environmental liability as a civil wrong: comparative Indian law
- Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and directors’ civil liability
- Land-usage disputes and digital registration: reform of civil property law
- Regulatory forbearance and civil liability of financial regulators
- Easements, rights-in-common and modern civil property reform
- ADR clauses in civil contracts: enforceability and judicial trends
- Civil liability for mis-selling financial products: regulatory and legal interplay
- Human-rights claims in civil litigation: structural reform and Indian law
- Digital assets and tokenised property: civil law of ownership and transfers
- Neo-banks and civil law claims by customers: liability of digital banks
- Consumer protection and unfair contract terms: Indian reform
- Multilateral investment treaties and Indian civil liability of multinationals
- Joint ventures and shareholders’ derivative suits under Indian company/civil law
- Partition suits and modern inheritance: interaction of civil procedure and property law
- Public-interest litigation in civil law: evolution and procedural innovation
- Fake news, online reputation and civil law of injunctive relief
- Civil law and climate change: liability of polluters for civil damages
- Civil liability for data breaches: negligence and breach of duty in India
- Construction-disputes and adjudication: fast-track civil procedure reforms
- Civil liability under AI-enabled systems: defects liability and redress mechanisms