Google Scholar Metrics: He reached right at the threshold of the 100-citation mark, holding 95 recorded citations on Google Scholar, along with an h-index of 3 and an i10-index of 1.

On March 22, 2026, the eminent Director of Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar, Dr Sanjeevi Shanthakumar, unveiled the First Edition of LegalTechPolicy.com Playbook.

This Launch was conducted in the Roundtable Conference of the 7th GNLU Annual Legal Services Forum, 2026.

The forewords of this book were graced by:

Padma Shri Dr Saurabh Srivastava, Co-Founder, nasscom

Prof Dr Mukund Sutaone, Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad

Manohar Samal, MCIArb, Partner, Ratan Samal Associates LLP

Featured through Interviews and Insights published in Times of India, Swarajya and Mint as part of discussions around the timeline of the India AI Impact Summit 2026

EuropeIndia40 Leaders List: He was officially selected for the 2025 Class of the EuropeIndia40 Leaders List, which was announced at the end of December 2025.

Between 2018 and the end of 2025, he amassed a portfolio of 64 research publications dedicated strictly to AI policy and law. This includes 49 in-house publications and 15 third-party pieces, representing one of the largest independent bodies of work in Indian AI policy research.

His foundational book, Artificial Intelligence Ethics and International Law, achieved massive institutional penetration, becoming a standard text across premier engineering, law, and international tech programs:

International Adoptions

University of Niagara Falls (Canada): Core teaching resource for the Masters in Computer Applications program.

Arts College (Singapore): Featured in the institution's Online Public Access Facility.

San Francisco Public Library (USA): Officially indexed and available in the library's collection.

Core Engineering & AI Curriculums (India)

Bennett University: Recommended textbook for the BTech in Artificial Intelligence program.

Babu Banarasi Das University: Recommended text for the AI Ethics and Law credit course within the BTech CS (AI & Blockchain) program.

Law Schools & Premier Institutes (India)

Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University: Formally cited as an official reading reference.

IIT Bhubaneswar: Actively circulated resource within the institute's library ecosystem.

Prominent Tamil Nadu University: Built an entire credit course entirely around the book’s frameworks (circa 2020).

2025 marked the successful culmination of ISAIL's intensive 5-year-long Virtual Internship programme, a massive undertaking that actively mentored the next generation of tech-law professionals. Additionally, he concluded the influential AI and Policy in India editorial series, capping off a multi-year effort to document and shape the national discourse on technology regulation.

He released the fifth version of his privately proposed AI regulation framework. Following this, in October 2025, he launched the "India AI Governance Landscape 101 Visualiser"—India's first comprehensive visual regulatory tracker mapping AI regulations from 2000 to the present.

He spearheaded the development of The Global AI Inventorship Handbook, India's first detailed handbook with Kailash Chauhan and Bhavana J Sekhar, focusing specifically on the legal mechanics of AI inventorship.

Manipal Academy of Higher Education: He developed and directly presented the "Indo-Pacific Research Ethics Framework on Artificial Intelligence Use" (IPac AI) to establish baseline ethical guidelines for AI deployment and research across the Indo-Pacific corridor.

Invest Karnataka 2025: He was a featured panelist at the Invest Karnataka 2025 summit. He spoke on the "Global Approach to AI Regulation" panel, which was co-organized by Economist Impact.

Observer Research Foundation (ORF): In addition to his written contribution to their 2025 India Think Tank Forum Compendium, he actively spoke at ORF's 7th India Think Tank Forum, helping shape the dialogue around tech-diplomacy in emerging markets.

In February 2025, he presented the "Averting Framework Fatigue in AI Governance" report at a 42.ai workshop for product managers, developers, and legal practitioners down in Hyderabad.

G20 Brazil / Startup20: He was invited to the Startup20 Brazil Engagement Group (part of G20 Brazil 2024) to provide expert insights on the effective implementation and operationalization of various National AI Strategies on a global scale.

TRESCON India & World AI Show: Under his leadership as President, ISAIL served as the official Supporting Association for Trescon's massive 43rd Global Edition of the World AI Show in Mumbai (October 2024), deeply integrating his organization into the enterprise and startup AI sector.

Manipal Law School, Bengaluru: He drafted the exclusive GenAI + FinTech Moot Proposition for the inaugural Dr. TMA Pai International Technology Arbitration Moot Court Competition, cementing his role in shaping tech-law and arbitration curriculums.

CLEA International Conference 2024: Invited at the pleasure of the Attorney General for India, he spoke on "Artificial Intelligence Policy and Case Management in Indian Judicial Systems" at the Commonwealth Legal Education Association's (CLEA) conference. Notably, Justice M. Sundar of the Madras High Court publicly reviewed and remarked on Version 3 of Abhivardhan's privately proposed aiact.in regulatory bill during this event.

Tackling AI Hype: He co-authored the foundational technical report "Deciphering Artificial Intelligence Hype and its Legal-Economic Risks" (VLiGTA-TR-001). This report laid the groundwork for much of his later work criticizing overreliance on volatile tech narratives.

AIACT.IN (2023 Iterations): He drafted and officially presented the Artificial Intelligence (Development & Regulation) Act, 2023 (which served as Versions 2 and 3 of the AIACT.IN framework). This included a comprehensive, point-by-point proposal submitted by Indic Pacific Legal Research to reinvent India's National Strategy on Artificial Intelligence, specifically aligning with India’s GPAI Council Chairpersonship that year.

In November 2023, he released the highly anticipated 2nd Edition of his foundational text, Artificial Intelligence Ethics and International Law.

Launch of IndoPacific.App: He officially launched the IndoPacific.App (which evolved from the VLiGTA App). This established a dedicated digital library and interactive ecosystem designed to bridge skill-testing and research specifically within the law, policy, and technology domains across the Indo-Pacific corridor.

Launch of the 2021 Handbook on AI and International Law: Released officially on May 10, 2022, by Indic Pacific Legal Research LLP. As the primary editor—alongside Manohar Samal, Mridutpal Bhattacharyya, and Aditi Sharma—he delivered this concluding work of ISAIL’s Handbook project. The extensive volume mapped the legal implications of AI across various domains of international law.

Analytics India Magazine (AIM) Leaders Council: He was highly active with Analytics India Magazine in 2022, delivering specialized sessions and insights to industry leaders. Notable engagements included:

"Standardising Responsible AI" (August 2022)

"Being Lawyerly to Build Ethical AI for Business" (November 2022)

The Handbooks Project: He officially released the highly anticipated 2020 Handbook on AI and International Law (which hit the market in 2021) and simultaneously directed the compilation of the massive 2021 Handbook on AI and International Law (which featured 27 chapters and released the following year).

The Launch of IMAIL: In August 2021, under his leadership, ISAIL hosted the 1st Indian Moot on Artificial Intelligence & Law (IMAIL). This was a massive initiative as it was the first dedicated moot court competition in the country aimed explicitly at testing law students on the highly complex intersections of AI, tech ethics, and international law.

Global Academic Placements: He published a heavily cited paper, "The Ethos of Artificial Intelligence as a Legal Personality in a Globalized Space," which was presented at the AIAI 2020 (IFIP AICT) conference in Greece.

Launch of IndoCon: He hosted the inaugural 1st Indian Conference of Artificial Intelligence and Law (IndoCon 2020) in October. This established ISAIL’s flagship footprint right in the middle of the pandemic.

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities: His foundational text, Artificial Intelligence Ethics and International Law, gained significant interdisciplinary traction. Breaking beyond traditional engineering and law curriculums, the book's frameworks were featured and recognized within the academic circles of The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities during their 2020 conference, cementing its relevance in broader socio-legal and cultural discourse.

He made a major international debut by being invited to Prague to present his paper on "The Entitative Nature of Artificial Intelligence in International Law" at the SOLAIR Conference 2019, which was jointly organized by the Czech Government and the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Incorporation of the Core Entities: After laying the initial groundwork the year prior, he officially incorporated both his major ecosystem drivers: the Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law (ISAIL) and Indic Pacific Legal Research.

The First Book: He officially published the original 1st Edition of his foundational text, Artificial Intelligence Ethics and International Law. This initial release set the stage for its eventual global academic adoption in the following years.

Early Research Foundations: He published one of his earliest dedicated working papers on the subject, "The Wider Realm to Artificial Intelligence in International Law" (via SSRN). Alongside this, his early scholarly footprint was firmly established with key publications featured in the Amity Law Review and the GLC Contemporary Law Review. This 2018 research effectively laid the ideological groundwork for his entire future library of books, handbooks, and the eventual AIACT.IN regulatory frameworks.

The Founding of ISAIL: This is the year he officially founded the Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law (ISAIL). He established it as an independent, not-for-profit industry forum specifically to bridge the gap between the analytics/AI industry and legal standardization in India.