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Rescuing Duty From Fundamentalism: An Ambedkarite Re-Imagining of Part IV-A of the Constitution

- Achintya Anita Gurumurthy* I. Introduction Given recent discussions on the attack on constitutional and democratic values, it would be...

Environmental Whistleblowing In India: Existing Framework And Potential Considerations

- Sarthak Yadav* Introduction The Kali is a river that flows through the south Indian state of Karnataka, on the banks of which rests the...

Panel Report - Socio-legal Water and Sanitation Dialogue

On May 23, 2021, the Socio-Legal Review, NLSIU, in collaboration with the Rehabilitation Research Initiative, India (‘the RRI’),...

Regulation Through Reputation: The Case of Beyond Petroleum

- Malavika Parthasarathy I. Why do corporations comply with soft regulation? Beyond Petroleum (‘BP’), an integral part of the world’s...

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Can Ownership Rights Create a Better Life for Residents of Unauthorized Colonies in Delhi?

- Prerna Prabhakar* Population of Delhi is estimated to be 29 million, second only to Tokyo with 37 million people; and it is likely to...

Gandhi Beyond Gandhi: The Space of Translation in History

- Dr. Neilesh Bose* Mohandas Gandhi may be understood from a variety of angles, such as those of a saint, an activist, a political...

Neoliberalization of Indian Agriculture: Undermining of the Right to Food of Farmers

- Zainab Lokhandwala* I. Introduction Food security has been one of India’s core policy objectives for several decades. India’s strategy...

‘Not The Right People’: Why Jury Trials were Abolished in India

- James Jaffe * Several years ago, I wrote a short piece for EPW on the fate of jury trials in India after the famous Nanavati trial.[1]...

Enabling Trust Through Effective Oversight: Response to the Protocol

- Shweta Reddy* An assortment of digital measures have been deployed across the world to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. These measures...

Law and Film

Due Process of Law and Undue Regressions of the Spectacle: A Genealogy of Indian Cinema

- Abhineet Maurya* Genealogy is a form of historical critique, designed to study normative structure through an examination of their...

Exploring the Links between the Law, Cinema, and Extra-Judicial Violence

- Abhineet Maurya* The very existence of the idea of law implies that there are elements of society that are at variance with it. To the...

From Celluloid to The Courtroom: Mapping Queer Politics in Rituparno Ghosh's Cinema

-Rajashri Seal* Introduction Hailed as one of India’s greatest movie directors, Rituparno Ghosh was a name to reckon with when it came to...

Mapping the Depiction of Sexual Assault Trials in Bollywood

- Ayushi Agarwal* Introduction Cinema is a social phenomenon[1] in that it is at once a mirror of society’s practices, aspirations and...

From the Real to the Reel: Courtroom Trials in Hindi Cinema

- Dhruva Gandhi* In India, one of the main sites for a law and culture study is Hindi Cinema (Bollywood). It is one of the most widely...

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Election Series

Regulating the Unlegislated: Redefining the Powers of the Election Commission of India

This is Part IV of the Election Series - Pratik Dixit* Introduction In 181 B.C., the lex Cornelia Baebia was enacted by the Roman...

Election Commission: Orders and Constitutional Chaos

This is Part III of the Election Series - Hrishika Jain* In the run up to the 2019 elections, the Election Commission’s [‘the...

Bans and Extensions: How far can the Election Commission go?

This is Part II of the Election Series - Unnati Ghia* In exercise of its powers under Article 324, the Election Commission of India...

Campaign Bans and Lok Sabha Elections: An Example of the Election Commission Giving Itself Teeth?

With the conclusion of the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, SLR Forum brings to you the 'Election Series' - a four-part series which will...

Environment Law

Mundane Environmentalism and Accumulation-Horizon in India and the Global South

- Atreyee Majumder* We have witnessed the debate over the Draft EIA Notification 2020, which relaxed several safeguards to protect the...

Enabling Trust Through Effective Oversight: Response to the Protocol

- Shweta Reddy* An assortment of digital measures have been deployed across the world to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. These measures...

Does Tourism need to be within the EIA?

- Stella James and Nayana Udayashankar* To many of us, travel has become an important part of our lives. With bike trips in the Himalayas...

From 2006 to 2020: The Ongoing Problems of the EIA

- Stella James and Nayana Udayashankar* In the early days of the lockdown, as everyone worried about the spread of COVID-19 and mourned...

In the Belly of the Beast: EIA and its Willfully Engineered Failings

- Mridula Mary Paul* The law is not inert. It neither originates in a vacuum nor operates in ether. This is especially visible in the...

India and its Adivasis: Time to Reframe Environmental Justice

- Sakshi Aravind* I. Introduction India has consistently registered a high number of environmental conflicts in the last decade. The...

Environmental Justice in India

- Abhayraj Naik* Crisis, sustainability and environmental justice In early October 2018 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...

Which Environmental Issues did our Lok Sabha Representatives Raise during Question Hour?

A Data Analysis and Visualisation Of The Trends In Lok Sabha Questions Addressed To The Ministry Of Environment, Forests And Climate...

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