Socio-Legal Review: All Issues

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Special 20th Anniversary Issue
SLR@20: Reflections from India, South Asia, and Beyond

Fingerprints And Fragments: Reflections on the Challenges and Contributions of Socio-Legal History

Cultivating Attentiveness to Law in India through Legal Anthropology

The Meaning and Challenges of an Interdisciplinary Sentencing Exercise: Reflections from a Death Penalty Mitigation Practice

Locating Socio-Legal Research in Pakistan: A Reflexive Approach

Socio-Legal Enquiry on a Global Scale: Legal Intermediation, the Geography of Extraction, and the (Re)Negotiation of Africa’s Relationship with the World Economy

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Volume 19 (2023)

Issue 1

Full Issue

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Editorial

Jurimetrics and Detention: Understanding the Supreme Court Through Detention Cases During the 1975 National Emergency

A Tribal Chief and a Colonial Legislation: The Excluded Areas Act of 1846

Deconstructing Police Discretion as Brahminism

Janhit Abhiyan: Where does it lead us?

Book Review of Pamela Cox and Sandra Walklate (eds), Victims' Access to Justice: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (Routledge: 2022)

Issue 2:
Special Issue on Street Vendors and the Law

Full Issue

Front Matter

Editorial

Report of the Symposium on Street Vendors and the Law: Practices, Hierarchies, and Economic Citizenship

Street Vendor Politics and Legal Mobilisation in Metropolitan India: A Retrospective View

Street Vendors and Social Solidarity Economy: Reimagining Credit and Social Security

Claiming the City Between Two Laws: The Street Vendors Movement in Shillong

Micropolitics of Urban Informality and Street Vendors in Kolkata

Volume 18 (2022)

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Agenda Control in the Indian Parliament and the Impact on its Oversight Function – Analysis and Evidence

The Majesty and Dignity of Courts: Changes in Court Dynamics with the Onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic in India

‘Private Acts’ and Structural Inequality: Law and Housing Discrimination

Women, Gender Politics, and Resistance in Kashmir

Living By Religion, Playing by Law: Early Glimpses of The Ban On Triple Talaq

Issue 2

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COVID-19 Vaccines in India: Judicial Blind Spots in upholding the Right to Health

Socio-spatial Consequences of Disturbed Areas Act 1991 on Urbanizing Spaces in Gujarat

Gender Data Gaps in Agriculture and Land Ownership: Uncovering the Blind Side of Policymaking

Legislating Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse in India and China: A Divergence of Legislative Choice

Child Sexual Abuse Cases in India and Judicial Officers’ Perceptions and Experiences of POCSO-related Special Training

Understanding Construction of Technologies of (Trans)gender in India Shaped By Mechanisms of Security, Surveillance and Welfare

Volume 17 (2021)

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The Supreme Court Collegium and Transparency: A Non-Committal Relationship

Experiences of Dispute Resolution in Non-Court Forums: Justice Sans Rule Of Law?

Hadiya, Hinduism and Heterosexuality

Silicosis and the State: Configuring Labour’s Interest as the Public Interest

Justice Versus Judiciary: Justice Enthroned or Entangled in India? (2019) By Sudhanshu Ranjan, Oxford University Press, New Delhi

Issue 2

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Criminalisation Without an Object: Critical Reflections on the Muslim Women (Protection of rights on Marriage) Act, 2019

Privacy and Reproductive Health: Curtailing Rights and Choices

Statelessness And The Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019: The Case Of Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees

Article 15 and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act – A Thought Experiment

The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India, by Jinee Lokaneeta, Orient Longman, Hyderabad

Volume 16 (2020)

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

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

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

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

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

Issue 2

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Universalization of Minimum Wages As A Pipe Dream: Many Discontents of the Code on Wages, 2019

"The Right to Have Rights": Assam and the Legal Politics of Citizenship

The Demand Side of the Rule of Law: India’s Experience With Eminent Domain Law Reform

Ethnographic Study of Rape Adjudication in Lucknow’s Trial Court

Volume 15 (2019)

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Pendency in the Indian Criminal Process: A Creature of Crisis or Flawed Design?

Hearing the 'Little Guy' - Litigant Involvement to Promote Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in India

Judicial Narrative and Rape Myths: The Farooqui Case

Rethinking Poverty: A Socio-Legal Enquiry

Propaganda and Genocide: Setting Standards for Responsibility

Review of 'Sedition in Liberal Democracies' by Anushka Singh

Issue 2

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

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

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

Domesic Violence Laws in United States and India: A Sytematic Comparison of Backgrounds and Implications

Volume 14 (2018)

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Problems of Refugee Protection in International Law: An Assessment Through the Rohingya Refugee Crisis in India

Social Security for Domestic Workers in India

(Trans)Gressing the Binary: Coalitional Self-Determination for the 'Third Gender' Framework

Bureaucratization of Transgender Rights: Perspective from the Ground

Navigating Through 'Age' and 'Agency' in Eera v. State

Issue 2

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Protecting Citizens from the State Post Puttaswamy: Analysing the Privacy Implications of the Justice Srikrishna Committee Report and the Data Protection Bill, 2018

Anticorruption by Fiat: Structural Injunctions and Public Interest Litigation in the Supreme Court of India

Rights of Women with Disabilities under Indian legislations

Biggest Internal Security Threat or Non-International Armed Conflict?

The Constitution of India: A Contextual Analysis

Making a Case for Municipal Autonomy in Realizing the Paris Agreement

Volume 13 (2017)

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Scheduled Castes vs. Caste Hindus: About A Colonial Distinction and its Legal Impact

Mothers Who Donate and Mothers Who Sell- False Dichotomies in the Regulation of Living Organ Transplantation

The Judicial Scrutiny of Environmental Risk and the Legislative Scheme of the Water Act: A Comment

Feminist Reflections on Labour: The 'Ethics of Care' Within Maternity Laws in India

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Special Issue on Crime and Society

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Public Prosecutors, Victims and the Expectation Gap: An Analysis of Indian Jurisdiction

Battered Women: The Gendered Notion of Defences Available

An Unclear Empiricism: A Review of the Death Penalty India Report

Tenuous Legality: Tensions Within Anti-Terrorism Law in India

Reconceptualising Rape in Law Reform

Volume 12 (2016)

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Dance Bar Ban: Doing a Feminist Legal Ethnography

Changing Rights to Family Life: Biolegalities in the Globalization of Reproduction

Defining Domestic Violence and Women's Autonomy in Law

Negotiating Constitutionalism and Democracy: The 262nd Report of the Law Commission of India on Death Penalty

The "Illegal Immigrant" Identity and its Fragments- From "Enemy Foreigner" to "Bangladeshi Illegal Immigrant" in (Post) Colonial India

The Fraught Terrain of Law and Feminism: 20 Years of Subversive Sites

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Special Issue on Ecological Justice and Development

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Revamping the Groundwater Legal Regime in India: Towards Ensuring Equity and Sustainability

Changing Terrain of Environmental Citizenship in India's Forests

Law and Ecological Conflicts: The Case of the Sacred Cow in India

Dholera and the Myth of Voluntary Land Pooling

The Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project: The Issue of Resettlement and Rehabilitation

Volume 11 (2015)

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Wizards at Making a Virtue of Necessity': Street Vendors in India

The Politics of Financial Regulation

From Nyaya Panchayats to Gram Nyayalayas: The Indian State and Rural Justice

Judicial Restraint in an Era of Terrorism: Prevention of Terrorism Cases and Minorities in India

Finding Subaltern Voices: A Case for Preservation of Colonial Legal Proceedings

Critical International Law: Postrealism, Postcolonialism and Transnationalism (Prabhakar Singh and Benoit Mayer eds., 2014)

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Special Issue on Law, Technology, and Society

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Claiming the Social: Beyond 'Law as Technology'

Identity and Identification: The Individual in the Time of Networked Governance

Standard Essential Patents on Low-Cost Mobile Phones in India: A Case to Strengthen Competition Regulation?

Blurred Lines - Between the Artist and his Art

Aadhar: Wrong Number, or Big Brother Calling?

Volume 10 (2014)

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The Language of Evidence in Rape Trials

Rape, Impunity and Justice in Kashmir

The Good, The Bad and The Adulterous: Criminal Law and Adultery in India

Issue 2:
Special Issue on Gender and Sexuality

Full Issue

Front Matter

Introduction

Transcript of Proceedings of the Conference on Gender and Sexuality Organized by the Law and Society Committee

A Bio-Political Perspective on Intersexuality and Disability in Discourses of Law

Freedom to Be: Assessing the Claims of LGBTQ Asylum Seekers

Redefining Gender and Identity Formation Among Sexual Minorities

Volume 9 (2013)

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Special Issue on Legal Education and Practice

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Peel-Off Lawyers: Legal Professionals in India's Corporate Law Firm Sector

Women Leaders in the Areas of Higher Education, the Legal Profession and Corporate Boards: Continued Challenges and Opportunities in the United States

Recasting the LLM: Course Design and Pedagogy

It's All About the People: Hierarchy, Networks and Teaching Assistants in a Civil Procedure Classroom Community

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Grassroots NGO Regulation and China's Local Legal Culture

The Trafficking of Children: A Counter-Narrative to the CRC's Construction of 'Care'

Looking for the Guilty? Look Into a Mirror: Complicity in Oppression Through Choosing Inaction, and the Resistive Potential of Tragic Counter Narratives in Albert Camus' The Plague and Gabriel Garcia Marquez' Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Need to Change the Classroom: Reconciling Inquiry and Teaching

Remembering Revolution: Gender, Violence and Subjectivity in India's Naxalbari Movement

Volume 8 (2012)

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Special Issue on International Law and Human Rights

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The Medium Foreseeing the Future: The Role of NHRIs in Creating RHRIs in the Asia-Pacific Region

Side Judges: The Case of the Israeli Military Courts

The Maoist Movement and the Indian State: Mediating Peace

A Liberal Theory of International Justice

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The Micro-Macro Legal Continuum and the Levels of Law

The Rise and Fall of Administrative Justice - A Cautionary Tale

The Role of the Courts in Addressing Poverty, Inequality and Unemployment in South Africa

Private Speculations and the Public Interest: N.C. Kelkar's Land Acquisition Bill

Gender Identity, Citizenship and State Recognition

Volume 7 (2011)

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Flying Kites in a Global Sky: New Models of Jurisprudence

Feminist Politics and the Use of Force: Theorising Feminist Action and Security Council Resolution 1325

Rights of Women and Muslim Societies

Stealth Censorship: How the Calcutta High Court is suppressing a sociological book on Public Interest Litigation

Kneejerks and Fresh Starts: A History of Speakers and Authors of Protibaad

Learning from the Grassroots

Justice In Her Infinite Variety: Mithi Mukherjee, India in the Shadows of the Empire: A Legal and Political History 1774 – 1950 (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010)

Anupama Roy's 'Mapping Citizenship in India' (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010)

Volume 6 (2010)

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Braving Crocodiles with Kali: Being a Prawn Seed Collector and a Modern Woman in the 21st Century Sunderbans

Max Weber on Property: An Effort in Interpretative Understanding

Imperative Values of a Logical Forgiveness

The Right to Life Endangered

Inclusion in Law and Exclusion in Praxis: The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006

Volume 5 (2009)

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Law as Theory: Constitutive Thought in the Formation of (Legal) Practice

Reconceptualizing Law and Politics in the Transnational: Constitutional and Legal Pluralist Approaches

Representations of the Indian Emergency in Popular Fiction

Aging, Gender, Poverty: The Case of a Slum in Bangalore

Volume 4 (2008)

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Is Law Just a Means to an End

Law and the Common Good

State Identity, Territorial Integrity and Party Banning: The Case of a Pan-Arab Political Party in Israel

Sarendib's Sorrow: Sri Lanka's Continuing Conflict

Into the Breach: The Legislative Function of Taboo

Strengthening Civil Society: Lessons from the Consumer Forum at Basrur in Karnataka

Volume 3 (2007)

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Western Liberal Legalism and its Discontents: A Persepective from Post- Apartheid South Africa

States of Exceptionality: Provisional Disability, its Mitigation and Citizenship

Masking Identity: The French Headscarf Controversy vis-a-vis Children's Rehabilitation Homes in Bangalore

"Prisoner Never Gave Me Anything For What He Had Done:" Aboriginal Voices in the Criminal Court

Facing the Demons of the Past: Transitional Justice in Gujarat

Implementing the Fundamental Right of the Child to Education: The Case of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Volume 2 (2006)

Issue 1

From Illegality to Accepted Reality: Analysing the Impact of the I.C.J.'s Advisory Opinion on "The Wall" in Palestine

Condemned by Birth: The Implications of Genetics for the Theories of Crime and Punishment

Theory in Practice in a Global Age: What Legal Theory Can and Cannot Do

Hate Speech Revisited: The "Toon" Controversy

Pharmaceutical Patents and Healthcare

Volume 1 (2005)

Issue 1

Of Marginality: Poverty, Migration and Memory in the Megacity

The Middle Passage: Migration and Displacement of Sri Lankan Tamil Women of the Diaspora

Globalisation and City-Zenship in a Not-So-Networked Society: Looking for Narratives of Empowerment in the Process of Seepage of Techno-Cultural Practices

Marginalisation and Reservation in India: An Analysis in the Light of Rawlsian Theories of Justice and Equality

From Ambedkar's Idealism to Mayawati's Symbolism: Tracing the Contours of the Dalit Movement

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Issue 2:Special Issue on Crime and Society

Issue 2:Special Issue on Ecological Justice and Development

Issue 2:Special Issue on Law, Technology, and Society

Issue 2:Special Issue on Gender and Sexuality

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