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Call for Lawyer and Research Associate: CPA Project

On June 21, 2022 By Suhani Paruvelly In Announcements, Call for Applications

The CPA Project are looking to hire a Research Associate with 2-3 years of experience with litigation drafting and research. Further information can be found below:

Proposed Changes to the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980

On June 17, 2022 By Saumya Khandelwal In Explainer

Objectives and Features of the Act The Constitution of India places a fundamental duty on every citizen under Article 51-A(g) and on the State under Article 48-A to improve and protect the environment, including forests. …

Call For Applications at The Centre for Communication Governance at the National Law University Delhi

On June 15, 2022 By Anushri Bhuta In Announcements, Call for Applications

Call For Applications – Research Position at CCG (i) Full Time CCG Researcher, and (ii) Part Time Consultant The National Law University Delhi (‘University’), through it’s Centre for Communication Governance (‘CCG’/’Centre’) is inviting applications for …

Gig-Worker as The Archetypal Citizen-Subject

On June 4, 2022 By Amrita Vasudevan In Fundamental Rights, Governance, Labour Laws, Legislative Reform

Between 2019 and 2020 the Parliament passed four codes that re-organized the existing labour laws in India. The Code on Social Security, 2020, for the first time, introduced gig and platform-workers as distinct categories in …

LAOT Podcasts: #Episode 2.1 – Interview with Sannoy Das & Ananyaa Mazumdar on the Indian Feminist Judgments Project (Rewriting of the Charan Lal Sahu case)

On May 16, 2022 By Ananyaa Mazumdar, Sannoy Das and Shravani Shendye In Judgment Analysis, Podcasts, Women's Rights

The Indian Feminist Judgments project [IFJP] is a collaboration between feminist legal academics, litigators and judges, practitioners, activists from law and other disciplines, who are using a feminist lens to re-write alternative opinions to existing judgements. Indian Law …

On Matter, Manner, Method: Notes on Oishik Sircar’s Violent Modernities [Part II]

On May 16, 2022 By Atreyee Majumder In Book Discussions

Over the next few days, we we will be runing a book discussion on Oishik Sircar’s “Violent Modernities: Cultural Lives of Law in New India”. This is Part II of a two-part review by Atreyee Majumder.

On Matter, Manner, Method: Notes on Oishik Sircar’s Violent Modernities [Part I]

On May 16, 2022 By Atreyee Majumder In Book Discussions

Over the next few days, we we will be runing a book discussion on Oishik Sircar’s “Violent Modernities: Cultural Lives of Law in New India”. This is Part I of a two-part review by Atreyee Majumder.

Oishik Sircar’s Violent Modernities: Review by Nivedita Menon

On May 10, 2022 By Nivedita Menon In Book Discussions, New Scholarship

[Ed Note: Over the next few days, we we will be runing a book discussion on Oishik Sircar’s “Violent Modernities: Cultural Lives of Law in New India”. This is the second review by Nivedita Menon. …

LAOT Monthly Round Up- April 2022

On May 9, 2022 By Nitya Ravichandra In LAOT Monthly Round Up, Monthly Roundups

We at LAOT are back with an update of all the interesting things that we have been up to over the past couple of months. Happy reading! Introducing LAOT Podcasts! LAOT, in an attempt to …

The Courts and the Constitution: 2020 and 2021 in Review Conference- Summary

On May 9, 2022 By Nitya Ravichandra, Khushi Mittal and Mrityunjoy Roy In Courts and the Constitution

We bring to you a summary of the discussions in ‘The Courts and the Constitution: 2020 and 2021 in Review’ conference that was held this year. This summary of the conference was compiled and drafted …