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...
The Centre for Law and Policy Research (CLPR) is excited to announce the 6th edition of ConQuest: India’s Premiere National Quiz on the Indian Constitution, History and Politics. Since its first...
The Everyday In Sedition in Liberal Democracies, Dr. Singh “juxtaposes the understanding of sedition emerging from the higher judiciary with the practice of the law on the ground.” Her chosen field...
In an interview with the BBC, the Pakistani singer Ali Sethi spoke of zamana (loosely translated as, the times one lives in) being the ultimate muse in Urdu poetry, or the ‘great enemy’. For, to be...
In part two of the blog, the authors argue how IPC doesn't have a presumption of constitutionality, being a colonial law, and hence deserves a examination on its prima facie text, instead of a simple...