The ''Indian Journal of Law and Technology'' is an annual peer-reviewed, student-edited, open access law journal published by India's premier law school, the National Law School of India University (

Bangalore, India Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...

). The journal was established in 2005 and is the first and only Indian law journal devoted exclusively to the study of the interface between law and technology. The journal carries scholarship in the areas of

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information and communications technology Information and communications technology (ICT) is an extensional term for information technology (IT) that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications ( telephone lines and wireless signals) and computer ...

, privacy,

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, and

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, along with focusing on developing country perspectives on contemporary issues involving the intersection of law, technology, industry and policy. IJLT is one of top ranked law journals in India, and is indexed on international legal research databases such as

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and

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. Previous issues have featured articles by distinguished authors such as

Jonathan Zittrain Jonathan L. Zittrain (born December 24, 1969) is an American professor of Internet law and the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School. He is also a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, a professor of computer sc ...

(Harvard Law School),

Yochai Benkler Yochai Benkler (; born 1964) is an Israeli-American author and the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. He is also a faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Univers ...

(Author of "The Wealth of Networks"), Justice Michael Kirby (High Court of Australia), Justice Prathiba M. Singh (Judge, Delhi High Court), Professor Stephan Hobe (International Institute of Space Law),

Eben Moglen Eben Moglen (born 1959) is an American legal scholar who is professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, and is the founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center. Professional biography Moglen started out as ...

(Founder, Software Freedom Law Center), Elonnai Hickok (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), Dr. Carolyn Johnston (University of Melbourne), Tina van der Linden (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Justice S. Muralidhar (Chief Justice of Orissa High Court), and late Prof. Shamnad Basheer (Founder, SpicyIP). The journal is now in its 18th volume. It has previously published special issues on Privacy and Net-Neutrality. In 2020, the journal was recognised for its academic quality and publishing ethics by the

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, by its inclusion in the UGC-CARE List. The journal runs an online blog, and organises symposiums and conferences, to generate interest in the interface of law and technology.'About - Indian Journal of Law and Technology', accessible at https://www.ijlt.in/about

Editors-in-chief

The following persons have been

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of the journal:

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Indian Journal Of Law And Technology Indian law journals English-language journals Annual journals Publications established in 2005 Law journals edited by students