Between 2019 and 2020 the Parliament passed four codes that re-organized the existing labour laws in India. The Code on Social Security, 2020, for the first time, introduced gig and platform-workers as distinct categories in …
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Category: Constitutional Law
LAOT Podcasts: #Episode 1 – Interview with Arvind Narrain – Lawyer, Author & Scholar 
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 conversation entails a discussion on authoritarian and totalitarian states, India’s declared emergency of 1975, India’s current undeclared emergency, methods of resistance in modern India and other such inter-related topics.
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Review by Prof. (Dr.) Shruti Bedi – Privacy, the shield that protects or the sword that strikes freedom of speech?
[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 …
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Umar Fayaz Mir v. Union Territory of J&K: Analysing J&K High Court’s Delay in Disposing Habeas Corpus Petitions
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 relied upon …
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Genre Trouble
[Ed Note: In the conclusion to our blog round-table book discussion, Danish Sheikh writes a response to the reviews for Love and Reparation: A Theatrical Response to Section 377 in India. The introduction by Douglas …
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Privacy, the shield that protects or the sword that strikes freedom of speech? Summary by Harsh Jain
[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 this …
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The Standard of Assistance from Legal Aid Lawyers: An Indian Perspective
[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 this …
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Dismantling the Marital Rape Exception: Constitutionality and Consent
Ed Note: The article presents a constitutional argument against marital rape, grounded in the anti-stereotyping principle. It attempts to answer a persistent question in the marital rape debate – what comes next after striking down …
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Aadhaar and Exclusion: The Right to Social Security
This piece is Part 2 of a two-part series discussing the exclusionary effect of the Aadhaar Act. Section 142 of the Social Security Code was notified in May 2021 and requires employers and unorganised workers …
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Sui Generis Nature of the Indian Basic Structure Doctrine – A Response to Monika Polzin
Ed Note: In this post, Sanjay Jain responds to the arguments made by Monika Polzin in her paper titled “The basic-structure and its French and German origins: a tale of migration, integration, invention and forgetting”. …
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