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Socio-Legal Review is a bi-annual open access, student-edited, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal published by the National Law School of India University.

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Ashna Devaprasad explores the role of language in death penalty sentencing in her paper "Judges, Speaking of Death: Criminal Sentencing As a Socio-Cultural Practice in India's Trial Courts". Read the paper here: lnkd.in/gRa5bs9u
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SLR Forum: Madhur Bharatiya reviews Seema Azad’s prison memoir ‘Unsilenced: The Jail Diary of an Activist’ as an account of the abysmal state of Indian prisons and seen through the custodial righrs framework as signifying the gap between the existence and realisation of rights.
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A Review of Seema Azad's 'Unsilenced - The Jail Diary of an Activist' - NLS Forum

Seema Azad’s first prison memoir, published as 'Unsilenced: The Jail Diary of an Activist' provides a detailed account of a journalist’s first brush with the criminal justice system. The memoir also...

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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 its dilemmas.
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In Part II, she turns to how activists remember their pasts, why fact-finding works as a “left legalism” that borrows the form of liberal law, and the shifting nature of allyship in a time of digital activism, virality, and growing suspicion of dissent.
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Becoming Allies: An Interview with Ankita Pandey (Part I) - NLS Forum

An interview with Ankita Pandey on her latest book 'Becoming Allies: Civil Liberties Activism in India'

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Becoming Allies: An Interview with Ankita Pandey (Part I) - NLS Forum

An interview with Ankita Pandey on her latest book 'Becoming Allies: Civil Liberties Activism in India'

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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/vol…
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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/vol…
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In our unique Notes from the Field section for Vol. 21(2),@hamsini_marada writes on practising dissent in the legal classroom through teaching Art. Full article: repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol…
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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/vol…
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In our second Article in Vol. 21(2), @mookherjee_ujal and Shreyasi Bhattacharya analyse the shifting modes of monument governance and conservation in India Full article available at: repository.nls.ac.in/cgi/vie…
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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/vol…
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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/vol…
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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: forum.nls.ac.in/slr-forum-bl…
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New on SLR Forum: Kanha and Meraj Ahmad examine the SC stay order on the 2026 UGC Equity Regulations, intended to curb the rise of caste-based discrimination on college campuses. The authors challenge the grammar of misuse arguments, using wider substantive equality jurisprudence
Indian postage stamp (2015) featuring a portrait of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar beside an illustration of the Indian Parliament building, with the words "The Constitution of India" in the background.

ALT Indian postage stamp (2015) featuring a portrait of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar beside an illustration of the Indian Parliament building, with the words "The Constitution of India" in the background.

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Understanding the UGC Equity Regulations and the Misuse Debate (Part I) - NLS Forum

The Supreme Court stayed the 2026 UGC Equity Regulations, intended to curb the rise of caste-based discrimination on college campuses. The authors challenge the grammar of misuse arguments and...

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SLR and NLSIR are organising an online panel discussion to commemorate the life and work of Professor Marc Galanter, on Saturday, 18th July, at 6:30 PM IST.
The image contains a poster for an In Memoriam event dedicated to Marc Galanter, being organised jointly by the National Law School of India Review (NLSIR) and the Socio-Legal Review (SLR), at NLSIU, on Staurday, 18th April at 6:30 PM IST. The poster features a large photograph of Marc Galanter on the left with the event title in the centre. The lower half of the poster introduces the panellists with their photographs: Professor Robert Hayden (Professor Emeritus of Anthropology & Law, University of Pittsburgh), Professor Robert Moog (Professor Emeritus, North Carolina State University), and Mr. Nick Robinson. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Sidharth Chauhan, Assistant Professor of Law at NLSIU. A QR code appears on the bottom right that can be scanned to register for the event.

ALT The image contains a poster for an In Memoriam event dedicated to Marc Galanter, being organised jointly by the National Law School of India Review (NLSIR) and the Socio-Legal Review (SLR), at NLSIU, on Staurday, 18th April at 6:30 PM IST. The poster features a large photograph of Marc Galanter on the left with the event title in the centre. The lower half of the poster introduces the panellists with their photographs: Professor Robert Hayden (Professor Emeritus of Anthropology & Law, University of Pittsburgh), Professor Robert Moog (Professor Emeritus, North Carolina State University), and Mr. Nick Robinson. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Sidharth Chauhan, Assistant Professor of Law at NLSIU. A QR code appears on the bottom right that can be scanned to register for the event.

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We will be joined by Professor Robert Hayden, Professor Robert Moog and Mr. Nick Robinson, who were all close collaborators, peers, and interlocutors of Professor Galanter. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Sidharth Chauhan.
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Please fill this form to register: forms.gle/N94brSW9SK52i2TC8

Registrations: 'In Memoriam: Marc Galanter'

Please register here for an online commemoration of the life and work of Professor Marc Galanter, being jointly organised by the Socio-Legal Review and National Law School of India Review, on...

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