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 […]
Criminalizing Blasphemy and the Threat to Free Speech – The Indian Perspective
In Re Prashant Bhushan: Two Cents on Contempt and Free Speech
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, […]
Pride at Work- Assimilationist versus Special Rights Discourse
Rishav Devrani and Poojan Bulani An analysis of LGBTQ+ rights in the context of workplace discrimination with a focus on Japan and USA INTRODUCTION The advent of the twentieth century brought about […]
LSPR’s Blog Symposium & Webinars on Law & Political Economy in India after COVID
The Indian political economy had been in a state of flux even before we became one of the worst-hit COVID-19 affected countries in the world. The coronavirus has aggravated several structural issues […]
Reflections on the Case of Rehana Fathima
Neelabh Niket & Arush Mittal Introduction Women Rights Activist, Rehana Fathima (hereinafter petitioner), had recently published a video on her social media account, of her children (14-year-old boy and 8-year-old girl) painting […]
How Biased are Neoliberal Reforms: Examining Post-Covid Changes to Labour Regulations in India
Unnati Ghia This post is part of our Symposium on Law and Political Economy in India After Covid. In the face of a lockdown in the country, a contracting growth rate and rising […]
Supremacy of Economic over Constitutional Mandate
Abishek Nippani This post is part of our Symposium on Law and Political Economy in India After Covid. Amidst the turmoil created by the ongoing pandemic, what is often found missing from public […]
Environmental Degradation and Neoliberalism: Does De-Regulation work?
Utsav Mitra This post is part of our Symposium on Law and Political Economy in India After Covid. Environmental regulation has always taken a back seat when it comes to neoliberalist policies and […]
LSPR’s Blog Symposium Theme#3: Neoliberalism And the Law
This is the third and final theme of the webinar series and blog symposium – organized by the student wing of the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, the Kautilya Society, in partnership with the Young Scholars […]
Market Surveillance by SEBI: Catching up to Technology
Aastha Agarwalla A sound regulatory policy is thus the need of the hour to curb insider trading in the securities market and catch up to advancing technology. Introduction Undisputedly, the advent of […]
