MOB, Murder, Motivation: The Emergence of Hate Crime Discourse in India

Since 2015, various legal and civil society actors started highlighting the visible rise in media-re....

Author: M . Mohsin t Alam Bhat   Year: 2021 /Month: 5 /Vol: 16 /Issue:1 |  Subject: Criminal | Date: 24 May 2021 | Category: (Academic Journals)

Essential Religious Practices’ Doctrine as a Cautionary Tale: Adopting Efficient Modalities of Socio-Cultural Fact-Finding

In India, interactions between law and religion have often culminated in fractious, long-standing disputes. To reconcile this tension, a diluted form of legal pluralism was embraced in the post-Indepe....

Author: Mary Kavita Dominic   Year: 2021 /Month: 5 /Vol: 16 /Issue:1 |  Subject: Miscellaneous | Date: 24 May 2021 | Category: (Academic Journals)

Coexistence and Violence: The Case for Equality of Opportunity in Sri Lanka

Equality of opportunity reflects the availability of opportunities to all individuals in a society t....

Author: Gehan Gunatilleke   Year: 2021 /Month: 5 /Vol: 16 /Issue:2 |  Subject: Miscellaneous | Date: 24 May 2021 | Category: (Academic Journals)

A Right to the Indian City? Legal and Political Claims Over Housing and Urban Space in India

In Ajay Maken v Union of India, a case concerning the legality of the demolition of Shakur Basti in Delhi, a division bench of the Delhi High Court held that slum-dwellers possess the right to housing....

Author: Mathew Idiculla   Year: 2021 /Month: 5 /Vol: 16 /Issue:2 |  Subject: Land Acquisition | Date: 24 May 2021 | Category: (Academic Journals)

Anti-Terrorism Courts And Procedural (in) Justice: The Case of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Special Courts In South Chhattisgarh, India

The National Investigation Agency Act, 2008 (‘NIA Act’) was enacted for setting up a central agency,....

Author: Shikha Pandey   Year: 2021 /Month: 5 /Vol: 16 /Issue:1 |  Subject: Miscellaneous | Date: 24 May 2021 | Category: (Academic Journals)

Domestic Violence Laws in the United States and India: A Systematic Comparison of Backgrounds and Implications

Book Review: Domestic violence is a social issue which cuts across the legal jurisdictions of India and the United States. Comparative legal studies provide the foundation for the understanding of the....

Author: Dr Keerty Nakray and Vishu Surana   Year: 2020 /Vol: 15 /Issue:2 |  Subject: Miscellaneous | Date: 24 May 2021 | Category: (Academic Journals)

The New Face of Waste Colonialism: A Review of Legal Regulations Governing the Import of Waste Into India

The term “waste colonialism” was coined by activists in the late 1980s to describe the practice of developed nations dumping toxic wastes in developing and low-income countries, despite the fact that ....

Author: Lekha Sridhar and Parul Kumar   Year: 2020 /Vol: 15 /Issue:2 |  Subject: Miscellaneous | Date: 24 May 2021 | Category: (Academic Journals)

Conceptualising Children’s Rights in Digital Spaces: Emerging Issues and Challenges

The transnational and ostensibly age-blind digital spaces, facilitating new socio-cultural interconnections, recasting of identities, and commiserations of creative output, posits a distinctive set of....

Author: Aratrika Choudhuri   Year: 2020 /Vol: 15 /Issue:2 |  Subject: Human Rights | Date: 24 May 2021 | Category: (Academic Journals)

Biology, Intention, Labour: Understanding Legal Recognition of Single Motherhood in India

In recent years, the state’s conception of parenthood, giving priority to the father in the child’s ....

Author: Saptarshi Mandal   Year: 2020 /Vol: 15 /Issue:2 |  Subject: Human Rights | Date: 24 May 2021 | Category: (Academic Journals)

Review of 'Sedition in Liberal Democracies' by Anushka Singh

Sedition in Liberal Democracies is a welcome addition to the growing number of books on free speech ....

Author: Arudra Burra   Year: 2019 /Vol: 15 /Issue:1 |  Subject: Miscellaneous | Date: 19 May 2021 | Category: (Academic Journals)