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Job Title: Legal Intern — Regulatory Tagging and Compliance Research
Organisation: Inflect Consulting
Location: New Delhi
Reports to: Founder’s Office
Duration: 2 months (with possibility of extension)
About Inflect
Inflect is a policy intelligence and systems-diagnostics firm working at the intersection of public policy, regulatory foresight, and institutional reform. We partner with governments, multilaterals, and private-sector stakeholders to diagnose systemic delivery failures, map policy architecture, and design implementation-ready interventions across sectors, including climate resilience, public health, fiscal systems, digital governance, land administration, EV policy, and social protection.
Our work is deeply research-driven, politically informed, and implementation-focused. We are building a team that combines analytical rigour with strong stakeholder engagement and the ability to translate complex policy insight into actionable partnerships.
Role Overview
As a Legal Intern at Inflect, you will read primary regulatory sources — legislation, delegated instruments, regulator circulars, and judicial guidance — and apply structured tagging to identify how specific provisions affect specific Indian businesses. This is not general legal research; it is precise, methodical work that requires close reading, sound legal judgment, and the discipline to apply a consistent analytical framework across large volumes of regulatory material.
You will work alongside our Regulatory and Compliance Lead and contribute directly to the quality and coverage of the regulatory dataset that powers our platform. Interns who demonstrate strong performance will have opportunities to take on broader research and analytical responsibilities.
Key Responsibilities
Regulatory Reading and Tagging
- Read primary regulatory sources — Acts, Rules, Notifications, Circulars, and Guidance Notes — across domains including IT and data protection, e-commerce, consumer protection, fintech, broadcasting, and digital advertising.
- Apply Inflect’s regulatory tagging framework to identify: the type of regulatory instrument; the business category or platform type it applies to; the specific obligation imposed (disclosure, registration, audit, consent, reporting, etc.); the applicable deadline or periodicity; and the consequence of non-compliance.
- Distinguish between provisions that create hard legal obligations and those that constitute guidance, best practice, or aspirational standards.
- Flag provisions where interpretation is genuinely uncertain and document the basis for the tagging decision taken.
Compliance Mapping Across Business Categories
- Map regulatory requirements to business categories across sectors — including manufacturing, trading, services, financial entities, and digital businesses such as e-commerce marketplaces, OTT platforms, payment aggregators, and social media intermediaries — based on applicability criteria in the underlying legislation.
- Identify how compliance obligations vary by business size, user base, sector classification, or geographic scope.
- Maintain structured records of coverage decisions, including rationale for inclusion, exclusion, or conditional applicability.
Regulatory Monitoring and Research Support
- Track developments in the regulatory pipeline, such as draft rules, consultation papers, parliamentary bills, and key judicial and tribunal decisions affecting Indian businesses.
- Summarise new or amended instruments and assess their implications for existing tags and coverage.
- Support senior team members with targeted research tasks, comparative regulatory analysis, and preparation of client-facing notes.
Thematic Areas of Focus
Interns will work across one or more of the following regulatory domains, depending on background and business need:
- FMCG
- Automobiles OEMs
- Real Estate
- Agro-Processing
- Chemicals
- Manufacturing
- Financial Services and FinTech
What We’re Looking For
Essential
- Currently enrolled in an LLB or LLM programme at a recognised law school; penultimate or final year preferred.
- Strong close-reading skills and the ability to parse dense statutory and regulatory language with precision.
- Intellectual rigour and the discipline to apply a structured framework consistently, even across repetitive material.
- Basic familiarity with Indian regulatory architecture — the distinction between Acts, Rules, Regulations, and Circulars; the role of statutory regulators; and how delegated legislation works.
- Clear written communication in English; comfortable producing structured analytical notes rather than discursive essays.
- Genuine interest in technology regulation, digital governance, or compliance as a domain.
Desirable
- Prior coursework or internship exposure in technology law, data protection, corporate law, or regulatory practice.
- Familiarity with primary source research: reading Gazette notifications, regulatory websites, and tribunal orders rather than relying on secondary commentary.
- Experience with structured or annotated datasets, tagging exercises, or legal taxonomy work (in academic or professional contexts).
- Awareness of key regulatory frameworks: the IT Act and Intermediary Guidelines, the DPDP Act, the Consumer Protection Act, or RBI’s digital finance circulars.
What We Offer
- Substantive work on real regulatory content that ships into a live product — not shadow projects.
- Direct exposure to how a regulatory intelligence platform is built, structured, and validated.
- Mentorship from practitioners with deep experience across Indian regulatory and compliance domains.
- Structured feedback on your analytical and legal writing over the course of the internship.
- A stipend commensurate with the role.
- Strong performers will be considered for extended engagements or full-time roles as the team grows.
How to Apply
Send your CV and a brief note (no more than 300 words) to team@inflectpolicy.com. In your note, identify one regulatory development affecting online platforms in India that you think is underappreciated or poorly understood, and explain why it matters.
Writing samples, if available, are welcome but not required.
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
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