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Volume 19

Issue 1 (2023)

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 (2024):
Special Issue on Street Vendors and the Law

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

Issue 1 (2022)

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 (2022)

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

Issue 1 (2021)

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 (2021)

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

Issue 1 (2020)

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 (2020)

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

Issue 1 (2019)

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 (2019)

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

Issue 1 (2018)

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

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

Bureaucratization of Transgender Rights: Perspective from the Ground

Issue 2 (2018)

Protecting citizens from the state post Puttaswamy: Analysing the privacy implications of the Justice Shrikrishna 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

Issue 1 (2017)

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

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

Issue 2 (2017)

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

Issue 1 (2016)

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

Issue 2 (2016)

Dholera and the Myth of Voluntary Land Pooling

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

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

Volume 11

Issue 1 (2015)

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)

Issue 2 (2015)

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

Issue 1 (2014)

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 (2014):
Proceedings of the Conference on Gender and Sexuality Organized by the Law and Society Committee

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

Issue 1 (2013)

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

Taking Popular Culture Seriously: Towards Alternative Legal Pedagogy

Issue 2 (2013)

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

Issue 1 (2012)

Side Judges: The Case of the Israeli Military Courts

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

The Maoist Movement and the Indian State: Mediating Peace

A Liberal Theory of International Justice

Issue 2 (2012)

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

Issue 1 (2011)

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

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

Volume 6

Issue 1 (2010)

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

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

The Right to Life Endangered

Volume 5

Issue 1 (2009)

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

Issue 1 (2008)

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

Issue 1 (2007)

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

Issue 1 (2006)

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

Hate Speech Revisited: The "Toon" Controversy

Pharmaceutical Patents and Healthcare

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

Volume 1

Issue 1 (2005)

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