Circumvention of Federalism & The GNCTD (Amendment) Bill, 2021
By Shravani Shendye / April 26, 2021
In this explainer piece, our Reporter, Shravani analyses the GNCTD (Amendment) Bill that makes substantial changes to Delhi’s unique federal structure. The new Amendment is studied using the principles of cooperative federalism to understand how...
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In Memoriam: V.S. Mallar
By Vikram Raghavan / April 25, 2021
Varadaraja Shivaraya Mallar, who taught at seven law schools across India, left us on Saturday. With his ebulliently booming voice, Professor V.S. Mallar introduced generations of students to the lofty precepts of constitutional law and...
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Letting Go: The End (of the Start)
By Swethaa Ballakrishnen / April 23, 2021
Prof. Ballakrishnen responds to the comments from Akshaya Kamalnath, Nida Kirmani and Hemangini Gupta on their book Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility among India’s Professional Elite.
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Analysing NEP Through Gendered Lens – Part II
By Shraddha and Harshwardhan Pushkin Sharma / April 20, 2021
This is a two-part series on the analysis of the National Education Policy through gendered lines.
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Response to “Who are our Judges? Assessing the Information Disclosure Practice of Indian Supreme Court Judges”
By Deepika Kinhal and Shreya Tripathy / April 14, 2021
Ed Note: As part of our New Scholarship Section, we have been inviting discussants to respond to specific articles. This is part of a series of posts discussing the public law themed research articles featured...
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Analysing the National Education Policy through Gendered Lens – Part I
By Shraddha and Harshwardhan Pushkin Sharma / April 10, 2021
The Union Cabinet of India has approved the National Education Policy 2020 (NEP) for implementation. It is set to be the guiding document of India’s future education system, containing several innovative educational initiatives and reforms....
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Discussing Volume 9 of the Indian Journal of Constitutional Law
By DGV Rithvik / April 10, 2021
The fourth part of our discussions under the New Scholarship series around public law themed articles will include pieces featured in the recently released Volume 9 of the Indian Journal of Constitutional Law. IJCL’s editorial board...
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Who Are Our Judges? Assessing the Information Disclosure Practice of Indian Supreme Court Judges
By Rangin Tripathy and Chandni Kaur Bagga / April 10, 2021
In this piece, Rangin Tripathy and Chandni Kaur Bagga introduce the arguments they make in their research article titled “Who Are Our Judges? Assessing the Information Disclosure Practice of Indian Supreme Court Judges
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Monthly Round-Up: March 2021
By Mohini Parghi / April 8, 2021
This month, Law and Other Things published a range of articles & discussions. Below, we bring you an update on the Blog’s activities over the month of March 2021. Blog Posts We started off with...
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Locating the civil services in a federal set-up
By Abhirup Srivastav and Lahar Jain / April 5, 2021
Introduction In early December, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs ordered three IPS officers belonging to the West Bengal Cadre to report for deputation at the Centre. The officers were responsible for the security of...
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Trajectories of Indian Carceral Feminism
By Shruti Iyer / April 4, 2021
In her response piece, Shruti Iyer writes about how Dash's article provides an apt opportunity for feminists to reflect on the outcome of their efforts. She also makes observations about the status of civil society...
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Feminists and Rape Law Reform: Wielding Power with Expertise?
By Saptarshi Mandal / April 3, 2021
[Ed Note: As part of our New Scholarship Section, we have been inviting discussants to respond to specific articles. This is part of a series of posts discussing the public law themed research articles featured in...
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The Silent Dialogue – A Comparative Characterisation of the Agricultural Laws’ Adjudication in India
By Anushka Mittal / April 1, 2021
In this piece, the author attempts to examine the plenary jurisdiction of the Supreme Court by examining if the interim Order passed by the Supreme Court in the course of forming a committee in the...
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Ruling by executive fiat: Time for greater judicial control?
By Harsh Jain / March 31, 2021
The power of the executive to promulgate ordinances was incorporated into the Constitution of India, with certain checks on its abuse, in order to enable effective decision making in times of emergency. While a feature...
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Response to Dr Farrah Ahmed’s paper: Arbitrariness, Subordination and Unequal Citizenship
By Apurva Thakur / March 26, 2021
Ed Note: As part of our New Scholarship Section, we have been inviting discussants to respond to specific articles. This is part of a series of posts discussing the public law themed research articles featured...
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Thinking with ‘Accidental Feminism’
By Hemangini Gupta / March 26, 2021
[Ed Note: As part of our blog round-table book discussion on Professor Swethaa Ballakrishnen’s Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility among India’s Professional Elite, this is the review by Hemangini Gupta. The introductory post and...
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Rape adjudication in India in the aftermath of Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2013: Findings from trial courts of Delhi
By Preeti Pratishruti Dash / March 24, 2021
Ed Note - As part of our New Scholarship Section, we have been inviting discussants to respond to specific articles. This is part of a series of posts discussing the public law themed research articles featured...
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Life and Law in Delhi’s Terrorism Trials | Centre for Criminal Justice Reform and Research, NALSAR
By DGV Rithvik / March 23, 2021
Centre for Criminal Justice Reform and Research Invites you to a talk Life and Law in Delhi’s Terrorism Trials by Dr. Mayur Suresh. Mayur Suresh is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law at...
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Letting Go: The End (of the Start)
By Swethaa Ballakrishnen / April 23, 2021
Prof. Ballakrishnen responds to the comments from Akshaya Kamalnath, Nida Kirmani and Hemangini Gupta on their book Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility among India’s Professional Elite.
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Killing A Constitution With A Thousand Cuts: A Response to the Symposium Blogs
By Tarunabh Khaitan / February 18, 2021
[Ed Note – We are hosting an international blog symposium on India and Global Decline in Democracies as a part of our New Scholarship initiative. We discussed Professor Tarunabh Khaitan’s article, which he introduced here. All responses to his...
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Unraveling the New Land Regime in Jammu and Kashmir
By Mariyam Mayan / December 22, 2020
In this post, Mariyam Mayam, legal reporter at LOAT, explains the new land law regime being put in place in Jammu and Kashmir
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India & Global Decline in Democracies
By DGV Rithvik / December 14, 2020
Law and Other Things is happy to announce that we are hosting an international blog symposium on India and Global Decline in Democracies as a part of our New Scholarship initiative.
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Interview with Prof. Tarunabh Khaitan
By Vishal Rakhecha / December 1, 2020
Prof. Khaitan talks about the Junior Faculty Forum, his personal journey in academic writing and shares advice on how to improve writing! He also talks about the writing skills that undergraduate law students and early-career...
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Discussing Vol. 4 Issue 2 of the Indian Law Review
By Shanthan Reddy / November 27, 2020
This is the third part of our New Scholarship Series. In this series we discuss public law themed articles featured in the recently released Issue 2 of the 2020 Volume of India Law Review. This...
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Over-Regulation of The Civil Society: Unpacking the FCRA 2020
By Shravani Shendye / November 15, 2020
In this Explainer, our Legal Reporter Shravani, unpacks the substantive and procedural issues with the recent Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Amendment Act, 2020. FCRA 2020 seeks to regulate foreign funding of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in order...
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Institutional Reform at the Supreme Court
By Nick Robinson / November 10, 2020
[Ed Note: As part of our series marking 15 Years of Law and Other Things, we bring to you posts from our long-time contributors and supporters! In this post our Senior Editor Nick Robinson traces the...
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Circumvention of Federalism & The GNCTD (Amendment) Bill, 2021
By Shravani Shendye / April 26, 2021
In this explainer piece, our Reporter, Shravani analyses the GNCTD (Amendment) Bill that makes substantial changes to Delhi’s unique federal structure. The new Amendment is studied using the principles of cooperative federalism to understand how...
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In India, one of the most high-profile cases to come out of the #MeToo movement against workplace sexual harassment perpetrated has finally seen its culmination. The Case involved Journalist Priya Ramani, as an accused after...
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In this explainer, our Reporter Shravani explains the regulatory framework for the development, approval and distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine in India. It explains the legal compliances required under the current regulatory regime while also...
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Labour Codes: The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020
By Mariyam Mayan / February 1, 2021
This post discusses the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, focusing on some of its key features as well the limitations and inconsistencies posed by it.
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Labour Codes: Code on Social Security, 2020
By Sahil Aggarwal / January 17, 2021
Sahil discusses some crucial new changes introduced by the Code on Social Security, 2020 and its potential limitations in light of the recent release of the corresponding Code on Social Security (Central) Draft Rules, 2020...
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Unraveling the New Land Regime in Jammu and Kashmir
By Mariyam Mayan / December 22, 2020
In this post, Mariyam Mayam, legal reporter at LOAT, explains the new land law regime being put in place in Jammu and Kashmir
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Labour Codes: Industrial Relations Code 2020
By Chitranksha Kumari / December 17, 2020
The Government recently passed three labour codes - the Industrial Relations Code, 2020, the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, and the Code of Social Security, 2020 - in a bid to consolidate...
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Over-Regulation of The Civil Society: Unpacking the FCRA 2020
By Shravani Shendye / November 15, 2020
In this Explainer, our Legal Reporter Shravani, unpacks the substantive and procedural issues with the recent Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Amendment Act, 2020. FCRA 2020 seeks to regulate foreign funding of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in order...
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Letting Go: The End (of the Start)
By Swethaa Ballakrishnen / April 23, 2021
Response to “Who are our Judges? Assessing the Information Disclosure Practice of Indian Supreme Court Judges”
By Deepika Kinhal and Shreya Tripathy / April 14, 2021
Discussing Volume 9 of the Indian Journal of Constitutional Law
By DGV Rithvik / April 10, 2021
Who Are Our Judges? Assessing the Information Disclosure Practice of Indian Supreme Court Judges
By Rangin Tripathy and Chandni Kaur Bagga / April 10, 2021
Feminists and Rape Law Reform: Wielding Power with Expertise?
By Saptarshi Mandal / April 3, 2021
Response to Dr Farrah Ahmed’s paper: Arbitrariness, Subordination and Unequal Citizenship
By Apurva Thakur / March 26, 2021
Thinking with ‘Accidental Feminism’
By Hemangini Gupta / March 26, 2021
Rape adjudication in India in the aftermath of Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2013: Findings from trial courts of Delhi
By Preeti Pratishruti Dash / March 24, 2021
Arbitrariness, Subordination and Unequal Citizenship
By Dr.Farrah Ahmed / March 18, 2021
Free Market Feminism: A Review of Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility among India’s Professional Elite
By Akshaya Kamalnath / March 5, 2021
Killing A Constitution With A Thousand Cuts: A Response to the Symposium Blogs
By Tarunabh Khaitan / February 18, 2021
We have met the enemy and he is us: Thoughts inspired by Tarunabh Khaitan’s “Killing a constitution with thousand cuts”
By Professor Mark Graber / February 9, 2021
The Case for Systemic Constitutional Analysis
By Professor Kim Lane Scheppele / January 30, 2021
Response to Zaid Deva’s Article – Basic without Structure? : the Presidential Order of 1954 and the Indo-Jammu & Kashmir Constitutional Relationship
By Muhammad Mutahhar Amin / January 26, 2021
Deirdre N. Dlugoleski Responds to the Discussion on her Paper on Forest Rights Act
By Deirdre N. Dlugoleski / January 22, 2021
Summary – Basic without Structure? : The presidential order of 1954 and the Indo-J&K constitutional relationship
By Zaid Deva / January 20, 2021
Fellow Travelers in Illiberalism: India and Hungary
By Gábor Halmai / January 18, 2021
Putting Politics Ahead of Institutional Critique
By Professor Mark Tushnet / January 15, 2021
Chameleon Constitutions and Sri Lanka’s 20th Amendment
By Dr. Dinesha Samararatne / January 11, 2021
Killing A Constitution With A Thousand Cuts: A Response to the Symposium Blogs
By Tarunabh Khaitan / February 18, 2021
[Ed Note – We are hosting an international blog symposium on India and Global Decline in Democracies as a part of our New Scholarship initiative. We discussed Professor Tarunabh Khaitan’s article, which he introduced here. All responses to his...
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India & Global Decline in Democracies
By DGV Rithvik / December 14, 2020
Law and Other Things is happy to announce that we are hosting an international blog symposium on India and Global Decline in Democracies as a part of our New Scholarship initiative.
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Some Reflections on What the State is doing with our Time
By Malavika Prasad / December 11, 2020
In this post, our Senior Editor Malavika Prasad examines state action relying upon the lens of time
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Samvidhaan: Reflections on Shyam Benegal’s rendition of Indian Constitutional history
By Dr. Arvind Elangovan / November 30, 2020
In this post, Professor Arvind Elangovan reflects upon the famous television series "Samvidhaan: The Making of the Constitution of India" by Shyam Benegal. He argues that despite the accomplishments of the series, which ostensibly aims to...
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Institutional Reform at the Supreme Court
By Nick Robinson / November 10, 2020
[Ed Note: As part of our series marking 15 Years of Law and Other Things, we bring to you posts from our long-time contributors and supporters! In this post our Senior Editor Nick Robinson traces the...
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Prashant Bhushan and Suriya: A Search for Natural Justice in Non-Contempt Proceedings
By V.Venkatesan / September 25, 2020
In this post our Senior Editor V. Venkatesan writes about the contempt case against the actor Suriya.
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Looking Back & Looking at the Future: [email protected]!
By Vikram Raghavan, Dayaar Singla and Arun Thiruvengadam / September 25, 2020
In early August, Law and Other Things turned fifteen. To mark that milestone, the editors have invited past and present contributors to share their reflections. This piece is the first in that series. In it,...
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Life and Law in Delhi’s Terrorism Trials | Centre for Criminal Justice Reform and Research, NALSAR
By DGV Rithvik / March 23, 2021
Centre for Criminal Justice Reform and Research Invites you to a talk Life and Law in Delhi’s Terrorism Trials by Dr. Mayur Suresh. Mayur Suresh is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law at...
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Call for Papers – Comparative Constitutional Law and Administrative Law Quarterly Journal (CALQ) – Vol. 5 Iss. 2 – Submit by 15th March 2021
By Shanthan Reddy / February 22, 2021
About The Comparative Constitutional Law and Administrative Law Journal ["CALQ"] is an open-access online journal initiated at National Law University, Jodhpur, aiming to foster debate on contemporary issues in comparative constitutional law and administrative law,...
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Call for Papers | DAKSH Report
By DGV Rithvik / February 11, 2021
Call for Papers for DAKSH Report
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IDIA Legal Workshop 2021 | NUJS x NLSIU x NALSAR
By DGV Rithvik / January 5, 2021
IDIA Chapters of West Bengal, Karnataka, and Hyderabad are jointly conducting a two-day Legal Workshop on 9th and 10th January 2021. The Workshop will help participants in improving their skills in various activities that are...
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Introduction to the Roundtable Killing a Constitution with a Thousand Cuts: A Report from India
By Tarunabh Khaitan / December 16, 2020
We are hosting an international blog symposium on India and Global Decline in Democracies as a part of our New Scholarship initiative. We will be discussing Professor Tarunabh Khaitan’s article “Killing a Constitution with a Thousand Cuts: Executive...
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Call for Papers | The GNLU Law Review [Volume VIII]: Submit by 31st January 2021
By DGV Rithvik / December 14, 2020
The GNLU Law Review [Volume VIII] Call for Papers.
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Centre for Communication Governance, National Law University, Delhi | Digital Fellowship 2021
By DGV Rithvik / December 11, 2020
The Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi (CCG), is calling for applications for the DIGITAL (Digital Rights and Inclusive Technology for All) Fellowship, to be offered to successful candidates for a period...
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Call for Papers | Indian Journal of Constitutional Law Vol X : Submit by 17th January 2021
By Shanthan Reddy / November 17, 2020
Call for Papers for the Indian Journal of Constitutional Law (IJCL) Vol X. IJCL isa flagship journal of NALSAR University of Law and seeks to promote scholarship on core and comparative constitutional law issues.
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Discussing Vol. 4 Issue 1 of the Indian Law Review
As our readers might be aware, we have recently started the New Scholarship Section on our Blog, to promote new academic literature in the field of public law. As an added dimension to this, we have decided to invite discussants...
In Memoriam: V.S. Mallar
Varadaraja Shivaraya Mallar, who taught at seven law schools across India, left us on Saturday. With his ebulliently booming voice, Professor V.S. Mallar introduced generations of students to the lofty precepts of constitutional law and administrative law. He did so...
Circumvention of Federalism & The GNCTD (Amendment) Bill, 2021
INTRODUCTION In March 2021, both Houses of the Parliament passed the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2021 (hereinafter, GNCTD Bill) amidst massive furore. The President also gave his assent to the Bill immediately after its passing...
Response to “Who are our Judges? Assessing the Information Disclosure Practice of Indian Supreme Court Judges”
Ed Note: As part of our New Scholarship Section, we have been inviting discussants to respond to specific articles. This is part of a series of posts discussing the public law themed research articles featured in Volume 9 of the...
Letting Go: The End (of the Start)
[Ed Note: We have been hosting a Book Roundtable on Swethaa Ballakrishnen’s Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility among India’s Professional Elite. We had the introductory post by Nick Robinson and blog posts from Akshaya Kamalnath, Nida Kirmani, and Hemangini...
Analysing NEP Through Gendered Lens – Part II
[Ed Note: This is a two-part series on the analysis of the National Education Policy through gendered lines. Part I can be accessed here.] Ignoring LGBTQIA+ The NEP also fails to address LGBTQIA+ concerns. The NEP is vaguely worded and it...
