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Profession and Privacy: Critiquing the Surrogacy Bill

Surrogacy is the process wherein a woman bears a child for another individual or couple who, after birth, become the parent(s) of the child. The ...
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Letter to Law Students – Lessons from the Adjusted Gross Revenue (‘AGR’) Case

[Ed Note: We are delighted to bring to our readers this post as part of a series of letters addressed to law students from Prof ...
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The Controversial Legacy of Justice Arun Mishra

INTRODUCTION Justice Arun Mishra retired from the Supreme Court of India on September 2, 2020. A plethora of articles have been written since, which have ...
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ConQuest by CLPR | Quiz on the Indian Constitution, History and Politics | From October 3rd, 2020

The Centre for Law and Policy Research (CLPR) is excited to announce the 5th edition of ConQuest: India’s Premiere National Quiz on the Indian Constitution, History ...
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A Brief Response to Robi Rado’s ‘A Tale of India, Diaspora, and Development’ by Neeraj Grover

[Ed Note: As part of our New Scholarship Section, we have been inviting discussants to respond to specific articles. This Response Piece is part of a series ...
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A Tale Of India, Diaspora and Development

[Ed Note:  As part of our New Scholarship Section, we have been inviting discussants to respond to specific articles. This Response Piece is part of a ...
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NLAT 2020: Is it really wrong?

[Ed Note: We recently published a two-part post written by Bhavisha Sharma and Dayaar Singla on the NLSIU's decision to conduct NLAT which can be ...
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Part II: NLAT: Lack of Transparency, Accountability & Other Concerns

[Ed Note: This piece has been published on an evolving situation with all updates till 5:00pm, 9th September having been accounted for. LAOT invites responses ...
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Part I- NLAT: Can a Consortium Member have an independent test?

[Ed Note: This piece has been published on an evolving situation with all updates till 5:00pm, 9th September having been accounted for. LAOT invites responses ...
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Response to ‘The Sound of Constitutional Silences: Interpretive Holism and Free Speech under Article 19 of the Indian Constitution’ by Arpita Sarkar

[Ed Note: As part of our New Scholarship Section, we have been inviting discussants to respond to specific articles. This Response Piece is part of ...
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‘The Sound of Constitutional Silences: Interpretive Holism and Free Speech under Article 19 of the Indian Constitution’

[Ed Note: The second piece that we have under discussion is by Raghav Kohli, a Final Year Student at Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar. His ...
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Letter to Law Students on Teachers’ Day: My Law School Inspirations

[Ed Note: We are delighted to bring to our readers this post as part of a series of letters addressed to law students from Prof ...
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Response to Prof. Dipika Jain’s article: “Law-Making by and for the People: A Case for Pre-legislative Processes in India” by Anirudh Burman

[Ed Note: As part of our New Scholarship Series, we have been inviting discussants to respond to specific articles. This Response Piece is part of ...
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Explainer: Contempt Of Court – The Case Of Prashant Bhushan

The recent conviction of Advocate Prashant Bhushan by the Apex Court in a contempt case has sparked a huge controversy among activists, academia, and members ...
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A Brief Response to “Law-Making by and for the People: A Case for Pre-legislative Processes in India”

[Ed Note: As part of our New Scholarship Section, we have been inviting discussants to respond to specific articles. This Response Piece is part of ...
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Law-Making by and for the People: A Case for Pre-Legislative Processes in India

[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 ...
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Discussing Volume 41, Issue 2 of the Statute Law Review (SLR), Oxford University Press

Our second part of discussions under the New Scholarship series around public law themed articles will include pieces featured in the recently released Volume 41 ...
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The Ideas that led to Justice Frustrated

‘I often think about how litigation or the threat of litigation affects people. It takes over one’s whole life. The fear of the lawyers and ...
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Judicial Overreach and Basic Structure-II

Basic Structure and Judicial Decisions The logic discussed in Part I of this essay can be summarized as: power conferring provisions under our Constitution come ...
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Judicial Overreach and Basic Structure-I

It is now trite to assert that the Supreme Court has time and again indulged in judicial aggrandizement by arrogating to itself powers it was ...
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Letter to Law Students on Obama’s DNC Speech: Finding the North Star of the Indian Constitution

[Ed Note: We are delighted to bring to our readers this post as part of a series of letters addressed to law students from Prof ...
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Socio-Legal Issues with the 2020 Farmer’s Ordinance- Part II

Part I of the post dealt with the major issues that the specific portions of the ordinance raise. This part will solely focus on the ...
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent: A View from the Dock | Talk by Abdul Wahid Shaik | Centre for Criminal Justice Reform and Research, NALSAR

The Centre for Criminal Justice Reform and Research, NALSAR is holding a talk by Abdul Wahid Shaik titled "Guilty Until Proven Innocent: A View from ...
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Call for Papers: NLSIU’s Indian Journal of Law & Technology Vol. 17: Submit by October 31, 2020

The Indian Journal of Law & Technology (IJLT) is now accepting submissions for Volume 17. Please send in your submissions on or before October 31, ...
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An Introduction to the Vol. 31(2) of the National Law School of India Review

[Ed Note: We’re happy to report the release of Vol. 31(2) of the National Law School of India Review. This has been developed from NLSIR-Samvād: ...
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Orissa HC Judgment Highlights the Challenge of Protecting Privacy of COVID-19 Patients

A judgment of the Orissa High Court on 16.07.2020 has brought into focus the challenges involved in formulating a balanced privacy policy in relation to ...
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Socio-Legal Issues with the 2020 Farmer’s Ordinance- Part I

INTRODUCTION Indian economy is heavily dependent on agriculture almost 58% of the population of India, relying on it as their primary source of income. Both ...
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An Introduction to the Socio-Legal Review, NLSIU Vol. 16(1)

[Ed Note: We're happy to report the release of Vol 16(1) of the Socio-Legal Review. We're grateful to Shannon Khalkho for having taken the initiative ...
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