The Indian Journal of Law and Technology at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore (NLSIU), in association with the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore is organising the 3rd IJLT-CIS Lecture Series at …
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Guest Post by Shraddha Chigateri on “Now you see it, now you don’t…’ Hindu sentiment and the legal discourse on cow slaughter”
Anup Surendranath’s recent post on the Madhya Pradesh anti-cow slaughter law is an interesting and timely intervention on the nature of the broader legal discourse on cow slaughter. It provides us with tiny glimmers of …
Continue readingThe Gram Nyayalaya: The New Face of the Judiciary
Guest Post by Vasudha NagarajThe Gram Nyayalaya: The New Face of the Judiciary The Gram Nyayalayas Act passed in January 2009 proposes to set up a Magistrate’s court at the Mandal level. In a press …
Continue readingDignity on Trial: Human Rights Watch Report on Conducting and Interpreting Forensic Examinations of Rape Survivors
Human Rights Watch has released a comprehensive report “Dignity on Trial” on the use of forensic evidence in rape trials. The report compiled by Aruna Kashyap has also been covered by the New York Times. …
Continue readingExtension of deadline for submission of papers to Lassnet 2010
Dear All, On the requests of a number of people, the deadline for submissions of abstracts for papers and panels for the Second Law and Social Sciences Research Network (LASSnet) Conference to be held in …
Continue readingCourage Craft and Contention: Human Rights and the Judicial Imagination (Transcript of public lectures by Justice A P Shah and Prof. Baxi
On the 12th of June, the Alternative Law Forum (ALF) celebrated its tenth anniversary with a public lecture by Justice A P Shah and Prof. Upendra Baxi on the topic Courage Craft and Contention: Human …
Continue readingGuest Article by Vasudha Nagraj on lawyers and the Telengana movement
Lawyers, Cases and the Telangana movement by Vasudha Nagraj The agitation for separate Telangana, by the students of Osmania University, has drawn severe repression from the police. For the past two months, the campus has …
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