Categories

August 3, 2025

Caste Data, Digitisation and its Problematic Impact on Privacy and Policing

Anagha Damaraju

June 28, 2025

The Legacy of Capital Sentencing Discretion: Unpacking the Unfair History Behind ‘Fair’ Powers of Discretion

Lakshmi Menon

June 17, 2025

Muslimness, Feminism, and the Constitution | SLR Interviews Dr Sagnik Dutta

June 9, 2025

Statues, Decolonisation, and Memory | SLR Interviews Dr Rahul Rao – Part II

June 9, 2025

Statues, Decolonisation, and Memory | SLR Interviews Dr Rahul Rao – Part I

SLR Editorial Team

June 5, 2025

Looking Back: An Interview with Former SLR Editors

Megha Mehta, Dhruva Gandhi and Gautam Bhatia

May 9, 2025

On the conjoined habitus of law and aesthetics: An interview with Oishik Sircar

Oishik Sircar, SLR Editorial Team

May 6, 2025

Remembering to Forget the 2002 Gujarat Pogrom, 23 Years After: Heba Ahmed reviews ‘Ways of Remembering’

Heba Ahmed

May 1, 2025

The Illusion of a ‘Just Law’ in the Nation-State: Britta Ohm reviews ‘Ways of Remembering’

Britta Ohm

April 25, 2025

Creating and Recreating the Muslim: Zahir Janmohamed Reviews ‘Ways of Remembering’

Zahir Janmohamed

April 16, 2025

Hyper-nationality and the Untouchability of UAPA: A Postmodern Analysis

Navdha Sharma

March 20, 2025

Should §498A be Made a Compoundable Offence? – A Response

Aravind Sundar

  • Family Law

February 22, 2025

The Wollstonecraft Dilemma and the Puzzling Case of Indian Child Care Leave

Avani Agarwal

January 20, 2025

The Value of Biographical Work in Law and Jurisprudence: Reflections on Upendra Baxi’s Life and Legacy

Parv Tyagi

January 20, 2025

The Value of Biographical Work in Law and Jurisprudence: Reflections on Upendra Baxi’s Life and Legacy

Parv Tyagi

January 20, 2025

The Limits of Indigeneity: Speculative Inspirations from Upendra Baxi

Dikshit Sarma Bhagabati

January 20, 2025

Bringing Baxi to the Fore

Abhinav Sekhri

January 12, 2025

Should §498A be Made a Compoundable Offence?: A Theoretical Approach

Tanya Sara George

  • Book Round-Table: Out of Place

December 17, 2024

Of Routine Scrutiny: Insider and Outsider

Narmala Halstead

  • Book Round-Table: Out of Place

November 27, 2024

Out of Place in India: Reimagining Indigenous Identity and Law Using Luis Eslava’s Trigueño International Law

Shubhangi Agarwalla

  • Book Round-Table: Out of Place

November 25, 2024

Out of Place in Italy: Positionality in Comparative Studies

David Nelken

  • Book Round-Table: Out of Place

November 23, 2024

Out of Place in an Indian Court: Notes from Researching Domestic Violence in Mumbai’s Lower Courts

Sneha Bhambri

  • Book Round-Table: Out of Place

November 21, 2024

You Don’t Belong: Understanding the “Out of Place” Refugee

Pallavi Ramanathan

  • Book Round-Table: Out of Place

November 19, 2024

Navigating Insider-Outsider Relationalities with Sex Workers in China’s Sex Industry

Jo Hemlatha

  • Book Round-Table: Out of Place

November 17, 2024

Epistemic Privilege, Gender Violence, and Care in Empirical Socio-Legal Research

Rachel Sieder

  • Book Round-Table: Out of Place

November 15, 2024

Feeling Out of Place, Fighting to Belong: Response to Leisy Abrego

John S.W. Park

  • Book Round-Table: Out of Place

November 13, 2024

Taking Some Positions on Positionality: A Comment on Massoud’s Introduction to Out Of Place

Ashley Rubin

  • Book Round-Table: Out of Place

November 10, 2024

Out of Place: Editorial Introduction

SLR Editorial Team

Feature Image: Le Défenseur" (Counsel for the Defense), c. 1862/1865 by Honoré Daumier. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

October 16, 2024

Economics of the Quasi-criminal Standard of Proof

Chytanya S. Agarwal

  • Voices from the Field

October 11, 2024

Legal Theory, Practice, And Pedagogy: Bridging The Needless Divide

Ashwini Obulesh

  • Rights to the Forest

October 2, 2024

India’s New ‘Climate Right’: Boon or Bane for Climate Justice?

Birsha Ohdedar

  • Rights to the Forest

September 30, 2024

Missing Trees, Cancelled Rights: Does Compensatory Afforestation Negate Forest Rights?

Patrik Oskarsson, Sarthak Shukla

  • Rights to the Forest

September 26, 2024

The Folly of Ignoring Indigenous Rights over Forest and Resources

Kriti Sharma

  • Rights to the Forest

September 23, 2024

The Systematic Dismantling of India’s Forest Rights Act Through the Amendments to the Forest Conservation Act

Meenal Tatpati

  • Rights to the Forest

September 20, 2024

The Tribal Tapestry: Exploring the Social Evolution of Indian Tribes through Indigeneity and State Dynamics

Kumarjeeb Pegu

September 18, 2024

Rights to the Forest: Editorial Introduction

SLR Editorial Team

  • Rights to the Forest

September 6, 2024

‘Decolonising’ the Law: The Wrong Answer to the Wrong Question

Arudra Burra

  • Decolonization and the Law

September 2, 2024

On Decolonising Law in a Time of Genocide

Maria Giannacopoulos

  • Decolonization and the Law

August 29, 2024

Decolonisation as Critical Praxis

Rishika Sahgal

  • Decolonization and the Law

August 27, 2024

Decolonisation and the Law: Editorial Introduction

SLR Editorial Team

August 26, 2024

Malleshwaram, Manual Scavengers, and Murals: The Blueprint of Segregation In Bengaluru

Simone Vaidya

  • Law and Emotion

July 16, 2024

Civic Virtue and Social Hurt: Why Emotions Matter for the Politics of the Oppressed?

Ganesh Gaigouria

  • Law and Emotion

July 14, 2024

The Death Penalty and the Politics of Defining Emotion

Susan Bandes

  • Law and Emotion

July 12, 2024

Looking for Emotion in Western Legal Theory

Renata Grossi

  • Law and Emotion

July 10, 2024

Law and Emotion: Editorial Introduction

SLR Editorial Team

  • Book Round-Table: Hurt Sentiments

June 6, 2024

A Battle for the Soul of Postcoloniality?: Arvind Elangovan Reviews Hurt Sentiments

Arvind Elangovan

  • Book Round-Table: Hurt Sentiments

June 6, 2024

Modern (Un)Belonging and Imperial Inclusion: Parvati Sharma Reviews Hurt Sentiments

Parvati Sharma

  • Book Round-Table: Hurt Sentiments

June 6, 2024

Towards a Subcontinental Understanding of Secularism, Hurt Sentiment, and the Law: Siddharth Narrain Reviews Hurt Sentiments

Siddharth Narrain

  • Book Round-Table: Hurt Sentiments

June 6, 2024

Hurt Sentiments: An Interview with Neeti Nair

SLR Editorial Team

January 8, 2024

Curtailing Freedom of Choice: The Implication of Mandating Parental Signatures for Registering Love Marriages

Muskan Suhag

November 27, 2023

Free Market, Meritocracy, and Employment: The Debilitating Effect of Caste

Rohit Dalai

  • Constitutional Law
  • Human Rights

August 22, 2023

The Constitutionality of the Manipur Internet Shutdown

Natasha Maheshwari

  • Marriage Equality

August 9, 2023

Of Shared Struggles Beyond the Water: A Sri Lankan Perspective with Themal Ellawala

  • Marriage Equality
  • Top Picks

August 7, 2023

Of Queer Movements and the State’s Desire to Discipline: An Interview with Sumit Saurabh Srivastava

  • Marriage Equality
  • Top Picks

August 4, 2023

Reproducing Harm at the Margins: An Interview with Sayan Bhattacharya

  • Marriage Equality
  • Top Picks

August 2, 2023

Of Love Marriages That Have Always Existed: An Interview with Ruth Vanita

  • Marriage Equality
  • Top Picks

August 1, 2023

Of Queerness, Rights, and Utopic Possibilities: An Interview with Dr. Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen

  • Marriage Equality
  • Top Picks

July 31, 2023

Queering the (Court)Room: SLR Special Series on the Marriage Equality Debate in India

  • Constitutional Law

March 7, 2023

Rescuing Duty From Fundamentalism: An Ambedkarite Re-Imagining of Part IV-A of the Constitution

Achintya Anita Gurumurthy

  • Environmental Law

May 6, 2022

Environmental Whistleblowing In India: Existing Framework And Potential Considerations

Sarthak Yadav

  • Panel Reports

January 17, 2022

Panel Report – Socio-legal Water and Sanitation Dialogue

SLR Editorial Team

  • Environmental Law

January 13, 2022

Regulation Through Reputation: The Case of Beyond Petroleum

Malavika Parthasarathy

  • Miscellaneous

December 18, 2021

Repealed Farm Legislations, Minimum Support Price, and National Food Security

Darsana Prakash, Swarna Sadasivam Vepa

  • Miscellaneous

October 4, 2021

Exploring the Links between the Law, Cinema, and Extra-Judicial Violence

Abhineet Maurya

  • Miscellaneous

October 4, 2021

Due Process of Law and Undue Regressions of the Spectacle: A Genealogy of Indian Cinema

Abhineet Maurya

October 4, 2021

Due Process of Law and Undue Regressions of the Spectacle: A Genealogy of Indian Cinema

Abhineet Maurya

  • Criminal Law

October 1, 2021

From Marriage to Autonomy: Rethinking Sections 493 and 496 of the IPC

Anmol Kohli

  • Panel Reports

August 31, 2021

Panel Report – Jail is the Rule: Bail Jurisprudence under the UAPA

SLR Editorial Team

  • Socio-Economic Rights
  • Top Picks

July 3, 2021

Can Ownership Rights Create a Better Life for Residents of Unauthorized Colonies in Delhi?

Prerna Prabhakar

  • Socio-Economic Rights
  • Top Picks

June 25, 2021

Gandhi Beyond Gandhi: The Space of Translation in History

Dr. Neilesh Bose

  • Constitutional Law

June 18, 2021

Religion, Bank Balance and the Indian Citizenship Law

Silpi Jain

  • Socio-Economic Rights

April 15, 2021

An Anti-Discrimination Law for the Socio-Economically Disadvantaged in India

Surbhi Soni

  • Socio-Economic Rights

January 30, 2021

Neoliberalization of Indian Agriculture: Undermining of the Right to Food of Farmers

Zainab Lokhandwala

January 11, 2021

From Celluloid to The Courtroom: Mapping Queer Politics in Rituparno Ghosh’s Cinema

Rajashri Seal

  • Criminal Law

December 16, 2020

Admissibility of Syndrome Evidence in Rape Trials in India

Mansi Gupta

  • Family Law

December 12, 2020

The Law of Reunion: An Outlook from the Minor’s Perspective (Part II)

Chaitanya Shah

  • Constitutional Law

December 12, 2020

“Balancing” Away Free Speech: Some Thoughts

Shrutanjaya Bhardwaj

  • Family Law

December 2, 2020

The Law of Reunion: An Outlook from the Minor’s Perspective (Part I)

Chaitanya Shah

  • Socio-Economic Rights

November 19, 2020

The Property Rights of Persons with Mental Illnesses- A Story of Rights Sans Realization

Anchal Bhatheja

  • Environmental Law

November 10, 2020

Mundane Environmentalism and Accumulation-Horizon in India and the Global South

Atreyee Majumder

  • Socio-Economic Rights

October 25, 2020

Discrimination and Biases in the Digital Age: Examining the Concept of Community Non-Personal Data

Sriya Sridhar

  • Human Rights
  • Socio-Economic Rights

October 19, 2020

Situating Access to Justice During COVID-19: India’s Business and Human Rights Obligations

Almas Shaikh

  • Criminal Law

October 19, 2020

Response Paper to ‘Reconceptualising Rape in Law Reform’

Shubhangi Agarwalla

  • Top Picks

October 1, 2020

‘Not The Right People’: Why Jury Trials were Abolished in India

James Jaffe

  • Environmental Law
  • Top Picks

September 15, 2020

Enabling Trust Through Effective Oversight: Response to the Protocol

Shweta Reddy

  • Environmental Law

August 20, 2020

Does Tourism need to be within the EIA?

Stella James and Nayana Udayashankar

August 20, 2020

Does Tourism Need to be Within the EIA?

Stella James, Nayana Udayashankar

  • Constitutional Law
  • Socio-Economic Rights

August 16, 2020

The NEP gets the Language Problem Wrong

Madhavi Gopalakrishnan and Kruthika R

  • Environmental Law

August 13, 2020

From 2006 to 2020: The Ongoing Problems of the EIA

Stella James, Nayana Udayashankar

  • Environmental Law

August 9, 2020

In the Belly of the Beast: EIA and its Willfully Engineered Failings

Mridula Mary Paul

  • Socio-Economic Rights

August 5, 2020

The Empty Promise of Socio-Economic Rights

Thulasi K. Raj

  • Criminal Law

July 31, 2020

Section 376C of the IPC and Sex by Abuse of Authority

Karthik Rai

  • Constitutional Law

July 8, 2020

Office of the Speaker: An Anathema to the Doctrine of Constitutional Trust

Kartik Agarwal, Jayesh Kumar Singh

  • Miscellaneous

May 16, 2020

Analysing the Preamble to the Indian Constitution within the COVID-19 Crisis

Shaileja Verma

  • Miscellaneous

April 21, 2020

Critical Thinking in Times of Crisis: International Law, Critical Education and COVID-19

Rohini Sen

April 10, 2020

The Revolving Door of Juvenile Justice in India

Vrishank Singhania

March 27, 2020

Is Rape ‘a fate worse than death?’ -Deconstructing the rhetoric around death penalty for rapists

Megha Mehta

February 18, 2020

Down the rabbit hole with Mob-Lynching?: Making the case for a reverse onus clause

Tanishk Goyal, Rishabh Singh

February 11, 2020

Reforming the Concept of ‘Karta’: Is Age the Correct Criterion?

Anmol Jain, Aditya Saraswat

February 6, 2020

Welfare Automation in the Shadow of the Indian Constitution

Divij Joshi

February 4, 2020

Democratising communal spaces: Locating individuals in group right claims

Vivek Anandh

December 18, 2019

If Randomised Controlled Trials enable evidence-based policy, why aren’t they conducted on the rich?

Rashmi Venkatesan

November 29, 2019

Ambedkar in 377

J. Daniel Elam

  • Election Series

September 19, 2019

Regulating the Unlegislated: Redefining the Powers of the Election Commission of India

Pratik Dixit

August 29, 2019

The Erosion of Deliberative Democracy in India

Dhruva Gandhi, Unnati Ghia

  • Election Series

August 2, 2019

Bans and Extensions: How far can the Election Commission go?

Unnati Ghia

  • Panel Reports

July 28, 2019

Indira Jaising’s Address on Transformative Constitutionalism

Indira Jaising, SLR Editorial Team

  • Election Series

July 20, 2019

Campaign Bans and Lok Sabha Elections: An Example of the Election Commission Giving Itself Teeth?

Sregurupriya Ayappan

  • Socio-Economic Rights

July 10, 2019

SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act at Thirty

J. Daniel Elam

  • Human Rights

July 6, 2019

Section 377 Read Down: The Way Forward

Shreya Mohapatra

  • Miscellaneous

June 18, 2019

The Supreme Old Boys’ Club

Shraddha Chaudhary, Shreedhar Kale

  • Criminal Law

May 12, 2019

A Rights-Based Critique of the Law of Sedition in India

Sumit Chatterjee

  • Miscellaneous

April 21, 2019

Book Review: Ornit Shani’s ‘How India Became Democratic’

Amlan Mishra

  • Criminal Law

April 10, 2019

Making a case for bringing Sexting under India’s Rape Shield Laws: Lessons from USA & Indian Culture

Mallika Sen

  • Family Law

April 10, 2019

Parental Alienation Syndrome: Analysis in India

Saurabh Gupta

  • Constitutional Law

April 9, 2019

Interview: Discrimination Law 101 with Prof (Dr.) Tarunabh Khaitan

SLR Editorial Team

March 30, 2019

India and its Adivasis: Time to Reframe Environmental Justice

Sakshi Aravind

March 22, 2019

Mapping the Depiction of Sexual Assault Trials in Bollywood

Ayushi Agarwal

  • Family Law

March 21, 2019

Criminalisation of Triple Talaq: Dissecting the Constitutional and Socio-Legal Aspects

Eesha Shrotriya and Shantanu Pachauri

  • Criminal Law

March 14, 2019

Non-consensual sharing of intimate images online: Solutions in Criminal, Media & Technology Laws

Raghav Mendiratta

  • Criminal Law
  • Human Rights

December 10, 2018

The Quest for Taharat: Sunita Tiwari v. Union of India

Shardha Rajam

  • Miscellaneous

October 25, 2018

Asian Games, 2018 and the Futility of Courts in Selection-Trial Disputes

Sarthak Sood

  • Criminal Law

October 19, 2018

The Offence of Adultery and Gender Equality in the Supreme Court of India

Nupur Raut

  • Environmental Law

October 19, 2018

Environmental Justice in India

Abhayraj Naik

  • Constitutional Law
  • Criminal Law

October 10, 2018

377 Bites the Dust

Agnidipto Tarafder, Arindrajit Basu

October 1, 2018

From the Real to the Reel: Courtroom Trials in Hindi Cinema

Dhruva Gandhi

  • Constitutional Law
  • Criminal Law

September 10, 2018

Section 295AA: Punjab’s Amendment to the Indian Penal Code is Constitutional Sacrilege

Rongeet Poddar

  • Criminal Law

August 30, 2018

Rewriting the “Rajesh Sharma v. State of UP” judgment from a Feminist Perspective [Part-II]

Atharv Gupta

  • Criminal Law

August 30, 2018

Rewriting the “Rajesh Sharma v. State of UP” judgment from a feminist perspective [Part I]

Atharv Gupta

April 21, 2018

Social and Economic Integration of Migrant Labour: A Policy Response

Simi Sunny

March 28, 2018

Internet Shutdowns: Amendment to the Telegraph Act and Mobile Company Licenses

Siddharth Narrain

March 11, 2018

Internet Shutdowns: Background and Use of Section 144, Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Siddharth Narrain

February 11, 2018

Bharat/India, Diversity/Plurality and the Constitution

Abhayraj Naik, Dr. S. Japhet

February 7, 2018

Abortion and Sexual Violence: Reform Beckons

Dhruva Gandhi

December 31, 2017

The Core of the Case against Public Interest Litigation: Book Review

Samya Chatterjee

December 5, 2017

National Food Security Act: Overlooking the Poverty-Nutrition Nexus

Sregurupriya Ayappan

November 29, 2017

National Food Security Act: Overlooking the Poverty-Nutrition Nexus