Mon. Nov 17th, 2025

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

  1. Legal implications of digital lending platforms in India: regulating app-based microloans
  2. Cyber-fraud and banking law: RBI’s role in domain-name controls and banking security
  3. Legal challenges in cross-border fintech payments under Indian banking regulation
  4. Regulatory sandbox frameworks in banking law: assessment of innovation vs consumer protection
  5. Data privacy obligations of banks under IT & banking laws in India
  6. Legal liability of banks for account freezing without due process
  7. Insolvency and bankruptcy of banks: interplay between IBC and banking regulation
  8. Legal regulation of sustainable finance (green bonds) in banks in India
  9. Banking regulation for cooperative banks: reforms, governance and supervisory challenges
  10. Legal issues in bank-customer contracts and T&Cs in Indian banking law
  11. Legal aspects of bank mergers & acquisitions in India: due diligence and regulatory compliance
  12. Bank-fintech partnerships: contractual frameworks and regulatory risks
  13. Consumer protection in banking: evolving Ombudsman schemes and DPI guidelines
  14. Legal treatment of cryptocurrency & banks—indirect regulation under banking law
  15. Priority sector lending obligations: legal enforcement and banking law compliance
  16. Banking regulation for NBFCs and their borrowing rights: legal interface
  17. Digital banking licences and virtual banks in India: legal feasibility and regulatory design
  18. Legal frameworks for Open Banking and APIs in Indian banking law
  19. AML (Anti-Money Laundering) regulation and banks: legal obligations and enforcement
  20. Banking laws and climate change risk: legal duty of banks to disclose climate risks
  21. Contractual liability of banks for wrongful foreclosure under SARFAESI & DRAT/DRT route
  22. Legal developments in branchless banking and banking correspondents in rural India
  23. Banking regulation of payment banks: legal viability and consumer risk
  24. Legal status of bank guarantee vs letter of credit: comparative banking contract law
  25. Impact of RBI digital lending guidelines (2024-25) on unregulated lenders and the banking-law interface

Hindu Succession (Succession & Inheritance Law)

  1. Interaction of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, with Scheduled Tribes: law and practice
  2. Impact of the 2005 Amendment on coparcenary rights of daughters: an empirical study
  3. Intersectionality in inheritance laws: caste, gender and region under HSA
  4. Digital assets and ancestral property: legal challenges in Hindu succession law
  5. Extrajudicial settlement vs partition suits under Hindu succession law: reform proposals
  6. Comparative Study of Hindu Succession and Muslim Succession Law Reforms in India
  7. Life-interest vs absolute interest in ancestral property: evolving jurisprudence
  8. Inheritance rights of adopted children under the Hindu Succession Act
  9. Mitakshara vs Dayabhaga systems: relevance in modern Hindu succession law
  10. Testamentary freedom in Hindu succession law: scope, limits and reform
  11. Rights of widows under Hindu Succession and changes in family law practice
  12. Digital record keeping of succession deeds: legal validity and reform under HSA
  13. Impact of migration and diaspora on Hindu succession rights of daughters
  14. Succession rights in blended families (step-children) under Hindu law
  15. Ancestral property and rights of female heirs before and after HSA amendments
  16. Partition deeds registered online: legal validity and issues under succession law
  17. Disinheritance practices in Hindu law: culture, court decisions and reform
  18. Settlement deeds and rights of pre-deceased heirs under the HSA framework
  19. Impact of bankruptcy/insolvency of Hindu coparceners on succession rights
  20. Digital property and NFTs: how Hindu succession law treats intangible inheritances
  21. Rights of grandchildren and great-grandchildren in Hindu succession: legal clarity
  22. Succession issues in mixed-religion marriages under Hindu law
  23. Role of alternative dispute resolution in family property partition under HSA
  24. Gender justice and Hindu succession law: implementation gaps and legal reform
  25. Comparative Asian perspective: inheritance rights of daughters in Hindu law in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka

 Evidence Law

  1. Implications of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, replacing the Indian Evidence Act: transitional issues
  2. Digital evidence and e-forensics in India: legal admissibility under modern evidence law
  3. Privilege and confidentiality in corporate communications: evidence law reforms
  4. Admissibility of AI-generated evidence in Indian courts: legal challenges
  5. Expert evidence and standards of reliability: evolving law in India
  6. Chain of custody in cybercrime evidence: Indian jurisprudence and reform
  7. Evidence law, and human-rights trials: issues of fair-trial and disclosure
  8. Electronic records and hearsay under the new evidence law: Indian perspective
  9. New approach to witness anonymity and protection under evidence reforms
  10. Presumption of death and evidentiary standards: comparative study
  11. Evidence law in arbitration and mediation: interplay between ADR and courts
  12. Admissibility of confessions under custodial conditions: reform post-2023 codes
  13. Use of social-media evidence in Indian litigation: authenticity and relevancy issues
  14. Evidence law, and adolescent testimony: legal protections and reform
  15. Reinventing the chain of evidence in biometric and blockchain records
  16. Evidence law in financial crime trials: proof of money-laundering in India
  17. Relevance and admissibility of voice-analysis evidence: Indian legal issues
  18. Evidence, law & cultural evidence: indigenous practices and courts
  19. Comparative study of evidence law reforms in India and Commonwealth jurisdictions
  20. Documentary evidence and digital signatures: legal validation under modern law
  21. Witness tampering and use of technology: legal safeguards under evidence law
  22. Private prosecution and production of evidence: evolving Indian law
  23. Forensic science and evidence law: reform of labs, accreditation and admissibility
  24. Evidence, law and rights of the accused in 2023-24 criminal law overhaul
  25. Implementation of statutory notice and disclosure obligations: evidence of law reforms

Criminal Law

  1. Legal implications of the replacement of IPC with Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023: transitional crimes
  2. Cyber-slavery and forced digital criminality: law and policy responses
  3. Criminal law reform and victims’ rights: emerging jurisprudence
  4. Regulation of AI in policing and predictive crime: constitutional and criminal-law issues
  5. Financing of terrorism and new legal definitions under Indian law
  6. White-collar crime and cryptocurrency laundering: current trends and legal response
  7. Sentencing reforms under new criminal codes: proportionality and rehabilitation
  8. Procedural safeguards in new criminal process statutes: rights of the accused under Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
  9. Consent, coercion and sexual offences: evolving law post-2023 reforms
  10. Environmental crimes and climate-justice offences: inclusion in the criminal code
  11. Private policing and corporate criminal liability in India
  12. Victim impact statements and compensation in criminal law: Indian law developments
  13. Transnational organised crime, smuggling and criminal liability: Indian context
  14. Juvenile justice and emerging digital crimes by minors: legal challenges
  15. Forensic DNA evidence and chain of custody in criminal trials
  16. Prison reform and custodial death liability: criminal-law implementation
  17. Hate speech, online violence and new criminal offences in India
  18. Drone-enabled crime and regulatory framework: criminal law challenges
  19. Illegal lending platforms and criminal enforcement in India’s financial sector
  20. Cyber-fraud, phishing, and bank-fraud liabilities under criminal law
  21. Criminal liability of public officials under new codes: corruption reform
  22. Victims’ right to appeal acquittals: recent Indian Supreme Court evolution
  23. Corporate manslaughter and new liability regimes in India
  24. Use of algorithms and facial recognition in investigation: constitutional & criminal-law issues
  25. Electronic evidence in criminal trials: new evidentiary standards and criminal procedure

Civil Law

  1. Remedies for breach of contract in consumer disputes: new patterns of relief
  2. Class-action suits in India: civil procedure and law reform
  3. Digital contracts and smart contracts: legal enforceability under Indian civil law
  4. Tort of defamation and internet intermediaries: Indian legal responses
  5. Privacy torts: evolving civil-law norms in India
  6. Environmental liability as a civil wrong: comparative Indian law
  7. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and directors’ civil liability
  8. Land-usage disputes and digital registration: reform of civil property law
  9. Regulatory forbearance and civil liability of financial regulators
  10. Easements, rights-in-common and modern civil property reform
  11. ADR clauses in civil contracts: enforceability and judicial trends
  12. Civil liability for mis-selling financial products: regulatory and legal interplay
  13. Human-rights claims in civil litigation: structural reform and Indian law
  14. Digital assets and tokenised property: civil law of ownership and transfers
  15. Neo-banks and civil law claims by customers: liability of digital banks
  16. Consumer protection and unfair contract terms: Indian reform
  17. Multilateral investment treaties and Indian civil liability of multinationals
  18. Joint ventures and shareholders’ derivative suits under Indian company/civil law
  19. Partition suits and modern inheritance: interaction of civil procedure and property law
  20. Public-interest litigation in civil law: evolution and procedural innovation
  21. Fake news, online reputation and civil law of injunctive relief
  22. Civil law and climate change: liability of polluters for civil damages
  23. Civil liability for data breaches: negligence and breach of duty in India
  24. Construction-disputes and adjudication: fast-track civil procedure reforms
  25. Civil liability under AI-enabled systems: defects liability and redress mechanisms