Shagun Bhargava A critique of the legislation’s understanding of discrimination and its inadequacy to tackle the lack of representation and discrimination in the workplace. The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 […]
The Inadequacy of the Transgender Persons Act to Tackle Workplace Discrimination
Phishing – Examining Stakeholders’ Liability And Awareness in India
Akanksha Agrahari and Prerna Sengupta The existing framework fails to provide any preventive measures to generate awareness regarding phishing “Economic crimes committed via acts like phishing are public wrongs or crimes […]
COVID19-XXVII: The Vaccine Race: Nationalism and Crony Auctioneering
Ayushi Singh This is the 27th post in our Covid19 series. Today, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan announced that by July 2021 India would receive 400-500 million doses of the Covid vaccine […]
COVID19-XXVI: To Open or Not to Open: Potential Liability of Universities
Naman Nayyar This is the 26th post in our COVID19 series. The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has drastically changed the manner in which the people of the world are leading their […]
E-Filing portal for RTI Applications: Amid the lockdown
Sanket Jha and Anchit Jain Background To handle COVID-19 infection, the Central government has imposed the lockdown under which, people are bound to restrict their movement. This has made the Right to […]
Do Data Protection Laws enhance the role of ‘Venue’ in Remote Arbitration Hearings?
Ajar Rab Arbitration proceedings no longer need “venue” as proceedings are taking place remotely. At the same time, the venue of arbitration may be more significant than it has ever been before […]
Is the Division of Rights into Socio-Economic and Civil and Political artificial ?
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 […]
Judicial Appointments: Is it time to look elsewhere?
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 […]
Criminalizing Blasphemy and the Threat to Free Speech – The Indian Perspective
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 […]
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, […]
