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Volume 17(2)

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Kajal Bhardwaj and Veena Johari, COVID-19 Vaccines in India: Judicial Blind Spots in upholding the Right to Health

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

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Mahiya Shah and Soumya S, Gender Data Gaps in Agriculture and Land Ownership: Uncovering the Blind Side of Policymaking

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Wenjuan Jhang and Avantika Chawla, Legislating Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse in India and China: A Divergence of Legislative Choice

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

 

 

 

 

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

Volume 17(1)

Advance Articles

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Shraddha Chaudhary, Criminalisation without an object: Critical Reflections on the Muslim Women (Protection of rights on Marriage) Act, 2019

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Ambika Tandon, Privacy and reproductive health: Curtailing rights and choices

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

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

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Book Review

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

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Shruti Vidyasagar and Shruthi Naik, Experiences of Dispute Resolution in Non-Court Forums: Justice Sans Rule Of Law?

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Madhavi Menon, Hadiya, Hinduism and Heterosexuality

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

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Rangin Pallav Tripathy, The Supreme Court Collegium and Transparency: A Non-Committal Relationship

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Book Review

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

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Articles

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

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

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

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        Notes from the Field 

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Neetika Vishwanath, Ethnographic Study of Rape Adjudication in Lucknow’s Trial Court

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Articles

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Abhinav Sekhri, Pendency in the Indian criminal process: A creature of crisis or flawed design?

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Ameen Jauhar, Hearing the 'Little guy'- Litigant involvement to promote alternative dispute resolution mechanisms in India​

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Arun Sagar, Judicial narrative and rape myths: The Farooqui case

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Book Review 

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Arudra Burra, Review of 'Sedition in liberal democracies' by Anushka Singh

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Notes from the field

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Radhika Kapoor, Propaganda and genocide: Setting standards for responsibility

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Interview

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Dr. Usha Ramanathan, Rethinking poverty: A socio-legal enquiry

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Articles

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Vrinda Bhandari and Renuka Sane, Protecting citizens from the state post Puttaswamy: Analysing the privacy implications of the Justice Shrikrishna Committee Report and the Data Protection Bill, 2018

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Dr. Chintan Chandrachud, Anticorruption by Fiat: Structural Injunctions and Public Interest Litigation in the Supreme Court of India

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Swagata Raha and Shampa Sengupta, Rights of Women with Disabilities under Indian legislations

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Short Articles

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Rishabh Bajoria, Red Corridor: "Biggest Internal Security Threat" or Non-International Armed Conflict?

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Book Reviews

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Dr. Mahendra Pal Singh, The Constitution of India: A Contextual Analysis

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Mrinalini Shinde, Making a Case for Municipal Autonomy in Realizing the Paris Agreement

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Dabiru Sridhar Patnaik and Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddqui, Problems of Refugee Protection in International Law: An Assessment Through the Rohingya Refugee Crisis in India

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Utkarsh Agrawal and Shailja Agarwal, Social Security for Domestic Workers in India

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

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Case Note

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Arushi Garg, Navigating Through 'Age' and 'Agency'  in Eera v. State

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Notes From the Field

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Dipika Jain, Gauri Pillai, Surabhi Shukla and Justin Jos, Bureaucratization of Transgender Rights: Perspective from the Ground

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Articles

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

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Keerthana Medarametla, Battered Women: The Gendered Notion of Defences Available

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

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Manisha Sethi, Tenuous Legality: Tensions Within Anti-Terrorism Law in India

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Shraddha Chaudhary, Reconceptualising Rape in Law Reform

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Articles

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Preeti Sampat and Simi Sunny, Dholera and the Myth of Voluntary Land Pooling

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Arjun Joshi and Namrata Maheshwari, The Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project: The Issue of Resettlement and Rehabilitation

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

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Arpitha Kodiveri, Changing Terrain of Environmental Citizenship in India's Forests

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

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Sameena Dalwai, Dance Bar Ban: Doing a Feminist Legal Ethnography

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Sonja van Wichelen, Changing Rights to Family Life: Biolegalities in the Globalization of Reproduction

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Gopika Solanki and Geetanjali Gangoli, Defining Domestic Violence and Women's Autonomy in Law

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

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

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Interview

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Oishik Sircar interviews Ratna Kapur and Brenda Cossman, The Fraught Terrain of Law and Feminism: 20 Years of Subversive Sites

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Articles

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Naveen Thayyil, Claiming the Social: Beyond 'Law as Technology'

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

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

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Manasi Gandhi, Blurred Lines- Between the Artist and His Art

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Notes from the Field

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Kalyani Menon Sen, Aadhaar: Wrong Number, or Big Brother Calling? 

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Articles

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

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Sanaa Ahmed, The Politics of Financial Regulation

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

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

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Notes from the Field

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

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Book Review

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

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Articles

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Saumya Maheshwari, The Language of Evidence in Rape Trials

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Seema Kazi, Rape, Impunity and Justice in Kashmir

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

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

 

Introduction

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Arvind Narrain, Transcript of Conference Proceedings

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Papers Presented at the Conference

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

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Douglas McDonald, Freedom to Be: Assessing the Claims of LGBTQ Asylum Seekers

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Sonakshi Anand, Prakash Bhakuni and Rahul Anthwal, Redefining Gender and Identity FormationAmong Sexual Minorities

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Articles

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Jayanth K Krishnan, Peel-Off Lawyers: Legal Professionals in India's Corporate Law Firm Sector

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Natasha Ann Lacoste and Maria Pabon Lopez, Women Leaders in the Areas of Higher Education, the Legal Profession and Corporate Boards: Continued Challenges and Opportunities in the United States

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Sudhir Krishnaswamy and Dharmendra Chatur, Recasting the LLM: Course Design and Pedagogy

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

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Notes from the Field

 

Danish Sheikh, Taking Popular Culture Seriously: Towards Alternative Legal Pedagogy

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Articles

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William Rhee, The Micro-Macro Legal Continuum and the Levels of Law

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Michael Adler, The Rise and Fall of Administrative Justice- A Cautionary Tale

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

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

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Siddharth Narrain, Gender Identity, Citizenship and State Recognition

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Articles

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Dr. Michal Tamir and Judge Amir Dahan, Side Judges: The Case of the Israeli Military Courts

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

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Notes from the Field

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G. Haragopal, The Maoist Movement and the Indian State: Mediating Peace

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Book Reviews

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Parvathi Menon, A Liberal Theory of International Justice

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Articles

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Werner Menski, Flying Kites in a Global Sky: New Models of Jurisprudence

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

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Special Comment

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Asghar Ali Engineer, Rights of Women and Muslim Societies

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Hans Dembowski and Rudiger Korff, Stealth Censorship: How the Calcutta High Court is Suppressing a Sociological Book on Public Interest Litigation

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Notes from the Field

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Atreyee Majumder, Kneejerks and Fresh Starts: A History of Speakers and Authors of Protibaad

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Uzramma, Learning from the Grassroots

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Book Review

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

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Articles

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

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Laura R. Ford, Max Weber on Property: An Effort in Interpretative Understanding

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Short Article

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Abhayraj Naik, Imperative Values of a Logical Forgiveness

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Comment

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

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Sudha Ramalingam and R.S. Akila, The Right to Life Endangered

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Articles

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

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Ruth Buchanan, Reconcepualizing Law and Politics in the Transnational: Constitutional and Legal Pluralist Approaches

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Sidharth Chauhan, Representations of the Indian Emergency in Popular Fiction

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

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Conversations

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Roger Cotterrell, Is Law Just a Means to an End

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Ofer Raban, Law and the Common Good

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

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Abhayraj Naik, Sarendib's Sorrow: Sri Lanka's Continuing Conflict

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Short Article

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Ali M. Abrar, Into the Breach: The Legislative Function of  Taboo

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Law's Translations

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

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Articles

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Dr. Narnia Bohler-Muller, Western Liberal Legalism and its Discontents: A Persepective from Post- Apartheid South Africa

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Dr. Fiona A. Kumari Campbell, States of Exceptionality: Provisional Disability, its Mitigation and Citizenship

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

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Special Article

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Shelley A.M. Gavigan, "Prisoner Never Gave Me Anything For What He Had Done:" Aboriginal Voices in the Criminal Court

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Comment

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Ameya Kilara, Facing the Demons of the Past: Transitional Justice in Gujarat

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Law's Translations: Perceptions from the Field

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

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

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Rajeev Dhavan and Aparna Ray, Hate Speech Revisited: The "Toon" Controversy

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Abhayraj Naik, Pharmaceutical Patents and Healthcare

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

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

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