Anish Gawande* On November 15, 1988, a group of 500 sex workers and trans women marched from Mumbai’s red light district, Kamathipura, to Churchgate’s Hotel Samrat (right next to Mantralaya, the administrative […]
Beyond the Letter of the Law: Queer Policymaking From the Margins
Panel Discussion on EWS Reservations: Dissecting Janhit Abhiyan v Union of India
Editorial Note The equal protection framework under the Constitution has taken its most robust form in the manner of affirmative action specifically for socially and economically backward classes under Article 15(4) and […]
Aishat Shifa: Dushyant Dave on ERP, Article 25 Jurisprudence, and Religious Freedom in India
Parv Tyagi In the latest episode of Arbitrary, the flagship podcast of Law School Policy Review, Parv Tyagi (Managing Editor, LSPR) sits down with Senior Advocate Dushyant Dave to discuss the Supreme […]
Queering The Right to Health: Marginalisation, Equal Citizenship and Social Determinants of Healthcare
Rohin Bhatt This piece aims to analyze how accessible healthcare is to queer individuals and locates itself within personal accounts. It presents access to healthcare as a function of one’s socio-economic standing […]
LSPR Monthly Newsletter (Volume 5)
Indian jurisprudence on abortion rights: Progressive or Merely Inconsistent? Rakshit Agarwal and Niveditha K Prasad The Indian judiciary, despite the criminalization of abortion under the IPC has been proactive and progressive in […]
The ‘Hinduization’ of Tribes: Examining the Application of the Hindu Code Bill to Scheduled Tribes
Debayan Bhattacharya Courts have been sharply split over whether the Hindu Code Bill applies to Scheduled Tribes that are ‘sufficiently Hinduized.’ This piece analyses such judicial decisions and argues that Section 2(2) of […]
Aishat Shifa: Decoding Justice Gupta’s Opinion in the SC’s Hijab Decision
Anmol Jain The Supreme Court recently delivered a split verdict on the constitutionality of the Karnataka Government’s Order proscribing the use of religious identities as part of the school uniform. Justice Gupta […]
A Review of the International Economic Consensus to combat Climate Crisis
Malhar Satav This piece examines the importance of global consensus to combat the Climate Crisis by arguing that the cost of inaction exceeds far more than the cost of immediate, intensive, and […]
ONDC: Democratising The E-commerce Industry
Piyush Chaubey and Anshika Gubrele Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), an initiative by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, seeks to democratise the e-commerce industry by carving a […]
LSPR Monthly Newsletter (Volume 4)
Private Jails: Is it the Reform that India Needs? Suhana Z. and Binit Agrawal Justice KM Joseph, while hearing the petition in Gautam Navlakha v. NIA, remarked “There’s a study of prisons. […]
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