Indian Journal of Law and Justice, Vol. 16, No. 01

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From the Editor’s Desk

Season’s Greetings!

I am glad to announce the publication of the Vol. 16 No. 01 issue of the Indian Journal of Law and Justice. The Indian Journal of Law and Justice has come a long way in the last one decade from being a national law journal to being an internationally acclaimed journal and from being a mere print version to having a website of its own, namely ijlj.nbu.ac.in. Along with being enlisted by the UGC CARE, the journal is proudly indexed with the esteemed SCOPUS along with the HeinOnline and EBSCO. Innumerable scholars, academicians and professionals from the field of law as well as other social sciences sector have been relying on this journal for their scholarly publications and have played a pivotal role in their early career success. I along with my highly efficient editorial team pledge to building on the legacy of this journal. We are making an endeavour for online submissions of articles and research papers to improve and expedite peer review. We, as a team, shall continue to remain committed to making it a forum that welcomes scholarship from a diverse and global group of authors, whose ideas are at the cutting edge of law and policy research.

 

Keeping the trend of the Indian Journal of Law and Justice, authors across the globe have contributed on varied topical matters and raised relevant and pressing questions in their papers to enrich the journal. The current issue gives the glimpse of insights on international and national issues. The current issue highlights on the Biodiversity Conservation, measures to protect migrant workers, security challenges facing electronic commercial remittance work, evaluation of ADR and practice, principle of common but differentiated practice on climate change, tribal disentanglement, comparative study on competition laws, PoSH, tech-driven rehabilitation, tracing blasphemy in digital media, comparative analysis of legal aid and analysis of reproductive health of Santhal tribals.

And also, in notes and comments the issue highlights on commercialistaion to innovation of Start-Ups in India and the book review highlights the issue of migration, identities and democratic practices in India.

I thank all contributors for their submissions to this edition and their cooperation with the editorial team during the production phase. I express my gratitude again to the entire Editorial Team whose commitment and perseverance made this publication possible.

Suggestions and opinions for the improvement of the journal is solicited.

 

With best wishes

Dr. Sujit Kumar Biswas

Chief Editor

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    Recognition of People's Rights to Land as a Panacea to Biodiversity Conservation
    (University of North Bengal, 2025-03) Ijaiya, B. L.
    Globally, biodiversity conservation is increasingly threatened by human activities. With the aim of augmenting man’s state of livelihood vide various environmental development activities such as construction of roads, buildings, companies and most notoriously, extraction of mineral resources, nocuous effects are melted on biodiversity. Although, Nigeria is praised as being rich in biodiversity, the traditional activities of its citizenry which are not limited to farming and hunting, as well as the uncurtailed oil exploration by its government since the discovery of oil towards the end of the 1950s, have posed an increasing threat to biodiversity. Peculiar to all the aforementioned activities is that they are all executed above or beneath the surface of the earth. Meanwhile, the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, with other international instruments not left out, recognizes the right of persons to immovable property – with land being the subject of this right. This article examines the recognition of this right to land as a panacea to biodiversity conservation. It finds that with due regard given to the right to land, ensuring its enforcement where activities of another erode it and also by imposing considerable responsibility on owners of the land as regards biodiversity conservation, the incessant biodiversity loss will drastically deplete. In reaching its findings, the article expatiates the state of biodiversity conservation in Nigeria, after which it elucidates the legal framework for biodiversity conservation, and then; amplifies the extent and limitations of the right to land as a panacea to biodiversity conservation before concluding and proffering recommendations on how to attain the findings of this article.