Soham Gupta

I am a second-year B.Com. LL.B. (Hons.) student at Gujarat National Law University (GNLU), Gandhinagar, and a student selected among the top 30 students pan-India for the Aditya Birla Scholarship (2025).

My research is organised around a recurring structural question: what happens when legal frameworks designed for one technological environment are applied to a fundamentally different one? I have examined this question across constitutional law, online gaming regulation, arbitration, competition policy, and AI governance. In each context, I find that the problem is rarely the inadequacy of specific rules; it is the embedded assumptions of the legal architecture itself. I have developed this inquiry through a doctrinal framework I call Medium Arbitrariness, which identifies how legal outcomes become structurally arbitrary when the medium of a regulated activity changes faster than the regulatory framework that governs it.

My published and forthcoming work includes “A Stillborn Law: Federalism, Medium Arbitrariness, and Legislative Abdication in India’s Online Gaming Act, 2025” (forthcoming, Comparative Constitutional Law and Administrative Law Journal, NLUJ, Vol. X Issue I, 2026) and “Markets in Pieces: Arbitration, Competition Law, and the Quiet Erosion of Coherence” (co-authored with Disha Joshi, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, 2026), which also received the Kautilya Society Essay Award at NLUO. I currently serve as a Research Assistant under Dr. Ishita Das at NALSAR University of Law, working on AI governance and legal policy.

Outside of research, I hold a Grade 2 Rock and Pop Guitar certification with Merit from Trinity College London, and completed Harvard University’s CS50AI in 2025.