About Law and Other Things Started in 2005, Law and Other Things (LAOT) is India’s first public law blog devoted to fostering discussion on India’s legal system, its Courts, and its Constitution...
In this two-part series, the author analyzes Justice D.Y. Chandrachud’s reasoning while tackling the challenge of Article 17 in the Sabarimala Temple Entry Case (“Sabarimala”). Chandrachud J. took a...
In this two-part series, the author analyzes Justice D.Y. Chandrachud’s reasoning while tackling the challenge of Article 17 in the Sabarimala Temple Entry Case (“Sabarimala”). Chandrachud J. took a...
About LSPR LSPR is an online Law and Policy platform run by Kautilya Society from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, under the aegis of Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy. We aim to...
In this article, Rushil Batra critiques the inherent subjectivity of the ERP test in the context of the hijab ban. Instead, he posits that the sincerely held belief test is the best approach to...
LAOT Editors-in-Chief, Anushree Verma and Shravani Shendye interview Abhinav Sekhri and Gautam Bhatia on legal writing. Both Abhinav and Gautam run successful blogs - the Proof of Guilt and Indian...
In this explainer, our analyst Ishika Garg writes on all the challenges raised against the UAPA in the past in light of the upcoming Supreme Court hearing of a recent petition challenging the...
Given the rise in disputes regarding Hindu and Islamic places of worship, this explainer analyzes the constitutionality of The Places of Worship Act, 1991. It unpacks the arguments related to the cut...
Michigan Law Review has put out a Call for Papers for its Junior Scholars Conference.
In this explainer, our analyst Nishka Kapoor writes on the recently released draft of the New Drugs, Medical Devices and Cosmetics Bill, 2022, while analysing the objectives that the Bill seeks to...
[Over the past couple of months, we have been running a book discussion on Oishik Sircar’s “Violent Modernities: Cultural Lives of Law in New India”. This is the final review by Parthasarathi...
In this episode, our legal editor Eeshan Sonak is in conversation with Shreya Atrey and Gauri Pillai discussing their rewriting of Nergesh Meerza, which dealt with the constitutionality of Air India...
The Anil Divan Foundation has launched the Friend of the Court podcast series that forensically reconstructs three major cases that senior advocate and constitutional expert, Anil Divan argued: the...