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LAOT Podcasts: #Episode 2.1 – Interview with Sannoy Das & Ananyaa Mazumdar on the Indian Feminist Judgments Project (Rewriting of the Charan Lal Sahu case)

On May 16, 2022 By Ananyaa Mazumdar, Sannoy Das and Shravani Shendye In Judgment Analysis, Podcasts, Women's Rights

The Indian Feminist Judgments project [IFJP] is a collaboration between feminist legal academics, litigators and judges, practitioners, activists from law and other disciplines, who are using a feminist lens to re-write alternative opinions to existing judgements. Indian Law …

LAOT Podcasts: #Episode 2 – Interview with Jhuma Sen & Rachna Chaudhary on the Indian Feminist Judgments Project

On May 5, 2022 By Jhuma Sen, Rachna Chaudhary and Gayatri Gupta In Podcasts, Women's Rights

Jhuma Sen, Rachna Chaudhary and Aparna Chandra anchor the Indian Feminist Judgments project [IFJP], a collaboration between feminist legal academics, litigators and judges, practitioners, activists from law and other disciplines, who are using a feminist lens to re-write alternative opinions to existing judgements. Indian Law Review, Volume 5 (Issue 3) presents a set of six re-written judgements and accompanying commentaries that were prepared as part of the IFJP.

Karnataka High Court’s Hijab Order Explained

On April 22, 2022 By Harsh Jain In Article 19, Explainer, Women's Rights

In this explainer, Harsh Jain, our analyst identifies the key issues in the Karnataka High Court’s hijab order and critically analyses the findings of the Court in each of the three issues.

The Tejpal Verdict: Exposing Public Secrets of Rape and Sexual Harassment Law – Part II

On June 10, 2021 By Megha Mehta In Criminal Law, Instituional Reform, Women's Rights

[Ed Note: This is a two-part series on the analysis of the Tarun Tejpal judgment. Part 1 can be accessed here.] Continuing from the discussion in Part I, the Verdict highlights the Indian legal system’s …

The Tejpal Verdict: Exposing Public Secrets of Rape and Sexual Harassment Law – Part I

On June 9, 2021 By Megha Mehta In Criminal Law, Instituional Reform, Women's Rights

[Ed Note: This is a two-part series on the analysis of the Tarun Tejpal judgment. Part 2 can be accessed here.] On May 21, 2021, the Addnl. Sessions Judge at Mapusa acquitted former Tehelka Editor-in-Chief …

Trajectories of Indian Carceral Feminism

On April 4, 2021 By Shruti Iyer In Criminal Law, Women's Rights

In her response piece, Shruti Iyer writes about how Dash’s article provides an apt opportunity for feminists to reflect on the outcome of their efforts. She also makes observations about the status of civil society engagement in policy making.

“Rubber-band” Secularism: How Islamic and Hindu majoritarianism repurpose colonial legal governance

On August 12, 2019 By Julia Stephens In Book Review, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Editor's Choice, Governance, Religion, Supreme Court of India, Women's Rights

In the conclusive post of the round-table book discussion, Professor Julia Stephens writes a response to the reviews for “Governing Islam: Law, Empire and Secularism in South Asia”. While analyzing the responses to her book, she simultaneously traces the paradigm of colonial secularism in the contemporary world

Governing Islam by Julia Stephens: A Response from Jhuma Sen

On July 31, 2019 By Jhuma Sen In Bombay High Court, Book Review, Constitutional Law, Governance, Religion, Supreme Court of India, Women's Rights

(As part of our blog round-table book discussion, this is the third of the substantive responses to Julia Stephen’s Governing Islam: Law, Empire and Secularism in South Asia, by Professor Jhuma Sen.) Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and …

Religious Denomination – Multiculturalism, Group Rights and the Constitution

On November 5, 2018 By Vivek Anandh In Constitutional Interpretation, Constitutional Law, Discrimination, Equality, Fundamental Rights, Judgment Analysis, Religion, Supreme Court of India, Women's Rights

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.