In this piece, the author shows how the Supreme Court's minority opinion in Rojer Mathew v. South Bank India Ltd. departs from the traditional essential legislative functions standard — which...
Summary: The approach to ‘transformative constitutionalism’ in Bandhua Mukti Morcha vs Union stands in stark contrast to the rationale preferred in Balram Singh. The central issue concerns both...
This blog examines Assam’s 2025 executive framework for identifying and expelling alleged “illegal immigrants” under the Immigrants (Expulsion from Assam) Act, 1950. It argues that the new Standard...
The article reviews the 2025 Special Intensive Revision in Bihar and its impact on voter rolls. Large-scale deletions followed, often affecting vulnerable groups, not because of disqualification but...
This piece examines how India’s Online Gaming Act, 2025 challenges the country’s federal balance by using the internet as a pretext for central regulation raising urgent questions about the future of...
This article critiques the August 2025 orders of the Supreme Court on stray dogs, exposing how human-centered laws ignore animal agency. The author argues that relocation mandates, punitive measures...
What happens when a Constitution promises rights, but the systems built around it keep concentrating power? In this episode, LAOT host Arnav Mathur speaks with constitutional scholar Dr...
In this article, the author explores the scope of the judicial review of Money Bills by questioning the neutrality of the Speaker’s certification of the Money Bills and analysing Justice...
The LAOT Team is delighted to bring our readers a discussion on Dr Datar’s paper published in the World Comparative Law Journal, The Judicial Concept of Religion in the Indian Supreme Court:...
Summary: In this piece, we continue the discussion on Prof. Nivedita Menon’s latest book, Secularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South. The summary of the book by Prof...