Foreword – Volume 9
Writing a foreword for a Volume of the Journal of Indian Law and Society in the time of a pandemic…
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COMMENT- THE TRIPLE TALAQ TRAVESTY
By Vaishnavi Prasad The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2019 or the infamous ‘Triple Talaq Bill’ was…
A Case For Reformation Of Narcotics Law In India
By Shreevatsa Lakhotia and Harishankar Raghunath International pressure forced India to hastily conform to a global regime on drug control and formulate laws that focused on penalisation. This resulted in…Continue Reading →
Interview with Catharine A. MacKinnon
* Interview taken by Archismita Raha, Debomita Sadhu, Siddharth Sonkar, and Shivani Kabra As we live in the internet era,…
Abortion for Minor Rape Survivors
By Devangana Mandal and Dhwani Parekh The years 2015 and 2016 have been monumental for the issue of medical termination…
MeToo and Section 499: The Story of a SLAPP
By Kushagr Bakshi In 2014, Subramanian Swamy, joined by Arvind Kejriwal Rahul Gandhi amongst others, moved the Court under Article 32 challenging the constitutional validity of Section 499 and 500…Continue Reading →
A case against the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Sarath Ninan Mathew* Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (“MGNREGA”): Setting the Context The unemployment rate in the period…
SAVE THE TIGER REMAINS A SLOGAN
By Lakshay Kewalramani INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND 1,00,000 Tigers were killed in India between 1850 and 1950 and there have been 115 tiger…
Are Francis Lieber’s Ideas on Rights and Obligations Still Relevant? Indian and American Scenario
By Aditya Sharma Introduction In his treatise, Manual of Political Ethics, Francis Lieber dedicates an entire chapter to the topic Reciprocal Relation of Right and Obligation[1]. Rights are of no…Continue Reading →
Intra-group Dissent and Sabarimala
By Bhaskar Kumar and Snehil Kunwar Singh “The irony of these times is that as actual places and localities become…