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 expand its...
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...
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...
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...
[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...
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.
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...
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...
In this episode, Shanthan (Senior Analyst, LAOT) interviews Arvind Narrain, author of the recently published book "India's Undeclared Emergency -Constitutionalism and the Politics of Resistance". The...
We are excited to launch our podcast series! Through this podcast series we intend to bring to our listeners conversations with some great people on a wide range of topics covering law, politics...
[As part of our New Scholarship section, we have been inviting discussants to respond to the public law-themed articles featured in Volume 5 the Indian Law Review. You can access all the posts in...
[As part of our New Scholarship section, we have been inviting discussants to respond to the public law-themed articles featured in Volume 5 of the Indian Law Review. You can access all the posts in...
Introduction On 29th December 2021, a Single Bench of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir [“J&K High Court”] quashed the detention order of Umar Fayaz Mir on the ground that all documents...