Sandli Pawar This article examines the applicability of Dworkin’s ‘moral reading’ of a right to the ‘right to legal representation’ to accommodate numerous unenumerated rights therein; it also argues that Article 22(3) […]
Ashwin Vardarajan Introduction On the 12th of January, 2021, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court (‘SC’) ordered a stay on the application of the three Farm laws, namely the Farmer’s Produce […]
Prof. Tiju Thomas Permitting a registered ‘deed of familial association (DFA)’, drawing from ‘Indian Contract Law’ and ‘right to life’ would aid legitimization of LGBT+ families. Despite progress in Indian queer rights […]
Mansi Gupta This piece examines the procedural lapses, judicial shortcomings and executive interference vis-á-vis the Foreigners Tribunal established under the Foreigners Tribunal Act, 1946 to demonstrate how the onerous burdens of proof, […]
Prof. Kent Roach One of my current research interests is the comparative study of wrongful convictions. Almost two decades ago, when I first taught in Singapore, my students assured me that there […]
Sarthak Wadhwa This piece analyses how the High Court of Orissa departed from the heteronormative marriage-centric jurisprudence of ‘live-in relationships’ to allow a trans-man and a cis-woman to cohabit, and how it […]
Anirudh Krishnan This post is a replug of the our C20 Archives. This year marks 10 years of LSPR’s Predecessor Blog- the Critical Twenties. Traditionally, rights have been divided into civil and […]
Ananya Narain Tyagi The irony is that the judiciary, after all its effort to distance itself from the executive after the emergency, has come a full circle to face the same questions […]
Anshul Butani Recent Controversies on Blasphemy law across the globe, necessitate revisiting the Indian Position on this point The recent political division over a French teenager’s tirade on Islam, and the controversy over the extrajudicial […]
Tanishka Goswami The Apex Court’s verdict challenges the notion of free speech in Indian democracy. This piece traces the idea of ‘contempt of the court’ through Indian Jurisprudence. On August 14, 2020, […]
