The Law School Policy Review (LSPR) is excited to bring to you the First Volume of its bi-weekly newsletter. It will tackle contemporary developments in the realm of law and policy and […]
LSPR Bi-Weekly Newsletter (Vol. 1)
Sex Workers: Undeserving of Morality?
Debmalya Biswas This article seeks to highlight the inherent contradiction between the law’s moral stance on sex work and long-standing principles of morality. Owing to the phenomenon of legal moralism, abstract moral […]
Rationality by Any Other Name- Common Principles for an Evolving Equality Code: Varta Ep. 3
Sarthak Wadhwa Parv Tyagi* About Varta: Dialogues on India’s Constitutional Democracy Indian constitutionalism is in a perilous state. Its ability to guarantee democratic governance and citizens’ rights are under deep stress. This […]
The Economic Analysis of Law: In Conversation with Dr. Shruti Rajagopalan
Parv Tyagi Dr. Shruti Rajagopalan is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University and a fellow at the Classical Liberal Institute, New York University School of Law. Before […]
Ensuring Fairness in Administrative Action
Kartik Garg Judicial checks are insufficient in ensuring fairness as they are conveniently ignored by the executive. The article argues for the need to have additional legislative and executive checks to safeguard […]
Law School Workshop Series: Session #3
The Law School Workshop Series – organized by the Jurisprudence and Political Philosophy Discussion Group, NLSIU in association with Kautilya Society (NLSIU-chapter) – will be hosting workshops to develop working papers in […]
The Case for Constraining Judicial Review: In Conversation with Professor Samuel Moyn
Professor Samuel Moyn is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School, U.S. and a Professor of History at Yale University, U.S. He has done extensive work on constitutional […]
Property Disputes and the Plea of ‘Oral Partition’
Ankit Gupta In absence of any checks and balances, the plea of ‘oral partition’ has been abused by dishonest litigants to prolong frivolous and vexatious civil suits, thereby, reducing it to a […]
Analyzing the ‘Right to Legal Representation’ from a Dworkinian Lens
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) […]
‘Separation of Powers’ after the Farm Laws Committee
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 […]
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