The penultimate panel for the 2nd edition of The Courts & The Constitution, focused on reviewing the developments in equality jurisprudence over 2019. The panel was moderated by Professor Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Vice-Chancellor, NLSIU. Arundhati Katju …
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The Citizenship Amendment Act and ‘Persons Belonging to Minority Communities’
The Citizenship Amendment Act alters the definition of ‘illegal immigrant’ for the purposes of the Citizenship Act 1955. It provides that ‘persons belonging to minority communities, namely, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from …
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Yet another creation of crime!
This post discusses the approach in the Lok Sabha from regulating commercial surrogacy to criminalizing it and how such transition is in conflict with the guaranteed rights.
Continue readingCall for Applications for Centre for Law & Policy Research | Equality Fellowship
The Centre for Law and Policy Research is inviting applications for its Equality Fellowship to engage in litigation and advocacy that responds to intersectional discrimination in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
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Religious Denomination – Multiculturalism, Group Rights and the Constitution
This post analyses the Supreme Court’s attempt to reconcile its dominant liberalism/individualism based approach towards fundamental rights as against the group right claims under Article 26, in the recent Sabarimala verdict.
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Sabarimala and the Essential Religious Practices Test
In this post, Vivek Anandh thematically analyses the important doctrinal conclusions on the ‘Essential Practices’ test and its discursive impact on the constitutional jurisprudence in the context of the Sabarimala Judgment.
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Social Dimensions Of Judicial Decisions: The Navtej Johar Template
In this post, the authors argue that while the Navtej Johar judgment is tool for social change, it may be unable to function as an effective measure for social acceptance.
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