New on the SLR Forum: Madhur Bharatiya reviews Seema Azad’s prison memoir ‘Unsilenced: The Jail Diary of an Activist’ and discusses how the memoir serves as yet another account of the abysmal state of Indian prisons.
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Our editors Arya Harishankar and Hiranya Gupta sat down with Dr. Ankita Pandey to discuss her new book ‘Becoming Allies: Civil Liberties Activism in India’. In Part I, she discusses the origins of the book, why she treats allyship as a politics in its own right, and the dilemmas it carries.
In our closing piece for Vol. 21(2), @shefalij1712 reviews Sandhya Fuchs' Fragile Hope, bringing to light legal consciousness, meliorism and the tension between individual justice and movement-based aspirations. Full review: repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol21/is...
For our first Book Review of 21(2), Ammel Sharon reviews Rohit De and Ornit Shani's work, Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic History, investigating the conceptual and historical conditions shaping the "people." Full Article: repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol21/is...
In our third Article for Vol. 21(2), Deepti Mulgund traces the evolution of Indian museums as spaces generating citizenship and its meaning. Full Article: repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol21/is...
In our third Article for Vol. 21(2), Deepti Mulgund traces the evolution of Indian museums as spaces generating citizenship and its meaning. Full Article: repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol21/is...
In our second Article in Vol. 21(2), Ujal Mookherjee and Shreyasi Bhattacharya analyse the shifting modes of monument governance and conservation in India Full article available at: repository.nls.ac.in/cgi/viewcont...
Excited to present our first Article of Vol. 21(2), a multimodal analysis on the performance of gender, lawyering, and credibility by Bhumika Billa. Link to article: repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol21/is...
The SLR Editorial Board 2024-25 is happy to announce that our Vol. 21(2) Special Issue on Law and Culture is now out. We thank our authors, peer reviewers, and University for their support. The full issue can be accessed here: repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol21/is...
New on the SLR Forum: Deblina Dey examines how The Sacred Bond Bill 2026 is steeped in symbolism that emphasises duties of children towards their parents while sidelining the state’s welfare responsibilities or reimagining the eldercare ecosystem. Read more here: forum.nls.ac.in/slr-forum-bl...
Parent Care Leave Bill 2026: New Law, Old Morality - NLS Forum
The Sacred Bond Bill 2026 allows relief from work to employees in India to look after their ageing parents without suffering a pay loss. However, it is steeped in symbolism that emphasises duties of c...
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SLR and NLSIR are organising an event to commemorate the life and work of Professor Marc Galanter, on Saturday, 18th July, at 6:30 PM IST. Please fill this form to register: forms.gle/N94brSW9SK52... Continued as replies.
New on the SLR Forum! Nidah Kaiser reviews Dr Sagnik Dutta’s ‘In the Shadow of Minority Rights: Decolonising Gender, Liberalism, and the Politics of Difference’. Read more here - forum.nls.ac.in/slr-forum-bl...
Book Review: Sagnik Dutta's 'In the Shadow of Minority Rights: Decolonising Gender, Liberalism, and the Politics of Difference' - NLS Forum
Book Review of Sagnik Dutta's 'In the Shadow of Minority Rights: Decolonising Gender, Liberalism, and the Politics of Difference'
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Our conversation with Rohit De and Ornit Shani on their latest book ‘Assembling India’s Constitution’ is now live on the SLR Forum!
Assembling India's Constitution: An Interview with Rohit De and Ornit Shani - NLS Forum
An interview with Rohit De and Ornit Shani on their latest book 'Assembling India's Constitution'
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Now live on the SLR Forum: Senjuti Chakrabarti, the defence lawyer in the RG Kar Medical College case, revisits the Trial Court’s refusal to award the death penalty, challenging the limits of “collective conscience” despite intense public pressure. Read more here: forum.nls.ac.in/slr-forum-bl...
Denial of Death Penalty Amidst Public Outrage in the RG Kar Hospital Case - Reflections of the Defence Lawyer Post One-Year - NLS Forum
The crime at RG Kar Medical College, Kolkata shocked the nation and sparked the "Reclaim the Night" movement demanding justice. A year later, the Trial Court’s refusal to award the death penalty despi...
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New on the SLR Forum! CP Shruthi examines the persistent gap between the formal recognition of mitigation in Indian death penalty jurisprudence and its substantive application in the sentencing practice. Read more here: forum.nls.ac.in/slr-forum-bl...
Speaking Across Paradigms: Law and Social Sciences in Death Penalty Mitigation Cases - NLS Forum
This article examines the persistent gap between the formal recognition of mitigation in Indian death penalty jurisprudence and its substantive application in the sentencing practice.
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New on the SLR Forum! Poorva Sharma and Vasujit Dubey examine the ICJ’s 2025 Climate Advisory Opinion through a TWAIL lens, arguing that despite recognising climate change as existential, the Opinion reproduces Global North dominance through institutional, normative, and epistemic injustices.
The Socio-Legal Review (SLR) at NLSIU is currently inviting submissions for Volume 22 (2), a special issue on ‘Law and History in South Asia’. The issue will be published in late 2026. The deadline for submission is 15 March 2026.
Closing Issue 1 of Volume 21 is this systematic review analysing three recent books that focus on the incarceration of the “Bhima Koregaon-16”—sixteen activists who were detained in the aftermath of a 2018 gathering. To read more, visit repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol21/is...
For our Notes From the Field section in Volume 21(1), the authors of this piece examine how India citizens perceive and prioritise fundamental rights, with particular attention to Article 19(1) and the constitutional right to property. To read more, visit repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol21/is...
In the third article for Volume 21(1), Tejaswi Chhatwal critically examines Hitesh Verma v State of Uttarakhand (Supreme Court, 2020) and argues for reading it as a “landmark trial” in the judicial undoing of reform. To read the piece, visit repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol21/is...
In this article for Volume 21(1), Rashmi Banerjee examines the 1920 trial of Musammat Kelee, a Hindu widow from Ajmer-Merwara, accused of drowning her illegitimate infant son in a lake. To read the article, visit repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol21/is...
In our first article for Volume 21(1), Jayna Kothari, Nithya R Rajshekhar, and Naibedya Dash offer an insightful data-driven analysis of women in India's higher judiciary using official records. To read the article, visit repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol21/is...
The Editorial Board (2024-25) of the Socio-Legal Review is delighted to announce the release of Volume 21, Issue 1! To access the Issue, please visit repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol21/is...
SLR is hosting its third Annual Workshop online, on Saturday, 10th January 2026 at 11 AM. The keynote speaker is Dr. Anindita Adhikari, Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at NLSIU. The workshop is open to all, register here: forms.gle/8sjCsrjYcm82...
The Socio-Legal Review is pleased to announce its Editorial Board for 2025-26. We look forward to expanding the imaginations for socio-legal scholarship through dedicated editorial work and public-facing initiatives.
New on the SLR Forum: Sumedha Edara analyses 'In Re: Right to Privacy of Adolescents (2025)', situating Article 142 as a mechanism for facilitating a more dignitarian and agency-sensitive reading of provisions. forum.nls.ac.in/slr-forum-bl...
Rescuing Justice from the Law: How the Court Heard What the Law Could Not Say - NLS Forum
Balancing interests of consenting adolescents vis-a-vis the POCSO Act requires an approach beyond the law itself.
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In the third iteration of the SLR Reading Circle, this term we are reading a set of texts curated for the theme 'Law and the Paper Archive'. The concept note and session plan can be found here: www.nls.ac.in/news-events/...
In this series on Sara Dezalay's Lawyering Imperial Encounters: Negotiating Africa’s Relationship with the World Economy (Cambridge University Press 2024), Faisal Chaudhry's review engages with the book’s own preferred metaphor, of law as “a Möbius ribbon." forum.nls.ac.in/slr-forum-bl...
Through the Möbius Ribbon: Grappling with Dezalay's Lawering Imperial Encounters - NLS Forum
The Möbius Ribbon image is evocative of how the ostensibly key intellectual challenge for the sophisticated surveyor is to be found in asking “where” we should “put the cursor of law’s empowering pote...
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For the SLR Forum, we continue to invite contributions on a rolling basis in the form of short essays and commentary on contemporary developments or issues that speak to the Aims and Scope of the Journal. To submit, please mail us at sociolegalreviewforum@gmail.com
NLSIU’s Socio-Legal Review (SLR) Journal is now inviting submissions for Volume 22(1) of the Journal. The deadline is 31st January 2026. Please find the submission guidelines here: repository.nls.ac.in/slr/policies... Please find all other relevant details here: drive.google.com/file/d/131cp...
