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A Substantive Equality Guide to Making Judicial Spaces Accessible to Persons with Disabilities

On January 24, 2022 By Ishika Garg and Yash Dodani In Accessibility, Discrimination, Equality, Instituional Reform, Judiciary

In this piece, the authors discuss the various hurdles that judicial spaces, both physical and virtual, present for persons with disabilities. They attempt to do so within the theoretical framework of substantive equality.

Divine labours, devalued work: Concluding response to the discussion pieces

On January 14, 2022 By Sneha Banerjee and Prabha Kotiswaran In Discrimination, Equality, New Scholarship, Parliament, Privacy, Reproductive Rights, Surrogacy

Ed Note: 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 …

Divine labours, devalued work: Response by Sharmila Rudrappa

On January 4, 2022 By Sharmila Rudrappa In Discrimination, Equality, New Scholarship, Parliament, Privacy, Reproductive Rights

Ed Note: 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 …

Divine labours, devalued work: Response by Swati Gola

On December 21, 2021 By Swati Gola In Discrimination, New Scholarship, Parliament, Privacy, Reproductive Rights, Surrogacy

Divine labours, devalued work: Response by Anindita Majumdar

On December 13, 2021 By Anindita Majumdar In Discrimination, Equality, New Scholarship, Parliament, Privacy, Reproductive Rights, Surrogacy

Ed Note: 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 …

Divine labours, devalued work: Response by Chayanika Shah

On December 7, 2021 By Chayanika Shah In Discrimination, Equality, New Scholarship, Parliament, Privacy, Surrogacy

Ed Note: 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 …

Divine labours, devalued work: the continuing saga of India’s surrogacy regulation: Summary by Eeshan Sonak

On November 22, 2021 By Dr. Sneha Banerjee and Dr. Prabha Kotiswaran In Discrimination, Equality, New Scholarship, Parliament, Privacy, Reproductive Rights, Surrogacy

[Ed Note: 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 …

Addressing Intersectionality And Access To Justice: The Need For An Anti-Discrimination Legislation

On November 2, 2021 By Kavya Arora and Eishan Mehta In Constitutional Interpretation, Constitutional Law, Discrimination, Equality, Fundamental Rights, Legislative Reform

The present constitutional provisions that provide protection against different forms of discrimination fall short of recognizing and doing complete justice to the victims of intersectional discrimination. Therefore, an anti-discrimination legislation in terms of substantive equality, horizontal applicability and access to remedies is argued for.

Deterring private discrimination, constitutionally

On October 29, 2021 By Thulasi K. Raj In Article 15, Discrimination, Equality, New Scholarship

The Constitution recognises the threat of private discrimination, and prohibits it in its text. But what’s the right principle to detect it? Thulasi K Raj argues for the principle of ‘public service’, which goes further than linguistic and other interpretations of Article 15(2).

The Forgotten Alternative to Addressing Caste Discrimination

On January 4, 2021 By Adithya Reddy In Constitutional Law, Discrimination

In this post, the author raises the question of what has led to the failure to annihilate caste. He investigates whether such a failure has taken place despite taking a constitutional approach or whether such a failure has taken place as a result of such an approach