Online Gaming in India: Technology, Policy and Challenges

This book offers a comprehensive overview from diverse perspectives of online gaming technology, policy, and experiments to understand and review the Indian approach. It starts with the technological viewpoint on the governance and regulation of online gaming and includes the Indian experiment in governing and regulating it.

Dr. Lovely Dasgupta has been in the teaching profession for the last Eighteen years. She is an alumnus of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, where she has completed her LL.M., M.Phil, and Ph.D. She primarily teaches Contract and Commercial law at the Undergraduate Level and Competition Law at the Postgraduate Level. She is one of the founding Indian academics to introduce a taught course on Sports Law. In the past sixteen years, she has been writing about and researching issues within the field of sports law. In addition, she has also published in competition law. To date, she has published four books on Sports Law and Competition Law. In addition, she has also published on Legal Education, which has been one of her highly cited works. Amongst others, Prof. Werner Menski in ’Shah Bano, Narendra Modi and reality checks about global understandings of Indian law’. Nirma University Law Journal (Ahmedabad), Volume 1, Issue 1(2011), has cited pp. 7-26 of ’Reforming Indian Legal education: Linking Research and Teaching, Journal of Legal Education, Volume 59, Number 3’ (See Footnote No. 15 of Menski). She is heading the Centre for Sports Law and Policy at NUJS. She is the only Indian to be a member of the International Network of Doping Research, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Dr. Shameek Sen is an Associate Professor at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, India. He specialises in public law disciplines such as constitutional law and media law. He has several publications as books, book chapters, and articles in
peer-reviewed journals and newspaper op-ed articles. His book titled Sports Law in India: Policy, Regulation and Commercialisation, co-edited with Dr. Lovely Dasgupta, is considered to be one of the leading Indian books on the
subject. He has also presented several papers at international conferences and symposia, including the Asian Law Institute (ASLI) Annual Conferences and the Biennial Conferences organised by the Asian Constitutional Law Forum. His article titled ’Constitutional Crisis, Autocratic Legalism and the Indian Constitution: Constitutionalism at Crossroads?’ was selected as the sole Indian entry at a project on Constitutional Struggles in Asia and was presented at an International Webinar organised by the Australian National University and the National University of Singapore Centre for Asian Legal Studies Faculty of Law. He currently holds the position of Director at the Centre for Technology, Entertainment and Sports Laws, a Research Centre that was set up at WBNUJS with financial support from M/S Gameskraft Technologies Pvt. Ltd., one of India’s largest skill-based online gaming platforms. The Centre is a pioneer academic contributor in India to the scholarship in these niche areas of study, organising lectures, symposia, workshops and training programmes dealing with the latest domain knowledge on the nuances of these subject matters.