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.
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Oishik Sircar’s Violent Modernities: Review by Nivedita Menon
[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. …
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LAOT Monthly Round Up- April 2022
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 …
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The Courts and the Constitution: 2020 and 2021 in Review Conference- Summary
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 …
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LAOT Podcasts: #Episode 2 – Interview with Jhuma Sen & Rachna Chaudhary on the Indian Feminist Judgments Project
Jhuma Sen, Rachna Chaudhary and Aparna Chandra anchor the Indian Feminist Judgments project [IFJP], 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 Review, Volume 5 (Issue 3) presents a set of six re-written judgements and accompanying commentaries that were prepared as part of the IFJP.
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Analysis of the Provisions of the NDPS
In this post, our analyst, Harsh Jain, analyses the key provisions of the NDPS Act. Among other provisions, he specifically explains the distinction between ‘small’ and ‘commercial’ quantity and the implications of the same on the quantum of punishment and the grant of bail to the accused.
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Oishik Sircar’s Violent Modernities: Review by Siddharth Narrain
[Ed Note: Over the next few days, we we will be running a book discussion on Oishik Sircar’s “Violent Modernities: Cultural Lives of Law in New India”. This is the first review by Siddharth Narrain. The …
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Karnataka High Court’s Hijab Order Explained
In this explainer, Harsh Jain, our analyst identifies the key issues in the Karnataka High Court’s hijab order and critically analyses the findings of the Court in each of the three issues.
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Institutional Linchpin v Individual Agency: Revisiting the marital rape debate in light of the connubial law
Shloab Arora examines the centrality of sexual intercourse to marriage within personal laws and explains its impact on the debate around criminalisation of marital rape, and how far mere criminalisation could take us.
Continue readingThe Courts and the Constitution Conference 2022
The Editorial Team of the ‘Law and Other Things’ Blog is organizing the 3rd Courts and the Constitution Conference in collaboration with its institutional sponsors, the Centre for Constitutional Law, Policy & Good Governance, NALSAR …
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