Shahrukh Alam’s review is the fifth post in our blog’s round-table book discussion on Prof. Jeff Redding’s A Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India moderated by Prof...
Shahrukh Alam’s review is the fifth post in our blog’s round-table book discussion on Prof. Jeff Redding’s A Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India moderated by Prof...
Shahrukh Alam is an advocate at the Supreme Court of India and the Patna High Court. She writes extensively on questions of criminal law, personal law and constitutionalism.
A Round Up of the posts published by Law and Other Things in October 2020.
CLPR focuses on addressing discrimination at the intersections of caste, gender, sexuality, and disability and other minorities through law. As a part of this work, they are excited to announce The...
On 18-26 November, the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL) Global Roundtable ‘Democracy 2020: Assessing Constitutional Decay, Breakdown, and Renewal Worldwide’ will take place as...
In this post, the authors introduce their paper "The Enduring Gaps and Errors in Capital Sentencing in India" published in the latest volume of the National Law School of India Review. They identify...
Neetika is a lawyer and member of the Executive Steering Committee at Project 39A, National Law University, Delhi. She heads Project 39A’s work on sentencing, torture and communications. Her...
Preeti Pratishruti Dash is a Research Associate at Project 39A, National Law University, Delhi. Her areas of interest include the death penalty, sentencing and gender-based crimes.
This article presents an account of the recent Supreme Court judgment in Amit Sahni v. Commissioner of Police and Ors. which answers a disputed question of drawing the balance between the right to...