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...

Book Review of Sagnik Dutta's 'In the Shadow of Minority Rights: Decolonising Gender, Liberalism, and the Politics of Difference'

An interview with Rohit De and Ornit Shani on their latest book 'Assembling India's Constitution'

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...

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.

Balancing interests of consenting adolescents vis-a-vis the POCSO Act requires an approach beyond the law itself.

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...

The Socio-Legal Forum is pleased to publish an interview with Dr Shivani Kapoor on her work, presented during the Conference on Indian Political Thought held at the National Law School of India Univer...

Mahek Bhatia

An interview with historian Dr. Saagar Tewari by SLR Editors Ritu Ranjan and Abhinav Jha.

Tanishq Desai

SLR Editors Sanaa Mathew, Madhumita G, and Niveditha K. Prasad interviewed Vibhuti Ramachandran on her recent book 'Immoral Traffic', an ethnography of the governmentality surrounding sex work in Indi...

Paper presented at the ‘Teaching International Law’ Panel, sponsored by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Chair of NLSIU, at the 10th International Conference on International Law: Issues & Challe...

Paper presented at the ‘Teaching International Law’ Panel held in October 2024, sponsored by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Chair of NLSIU.

Paper presented at the ‘Teaching International Law’ Panel held in October 2024, sponsored by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Chair of NLSIU.

Paper presented at the ‘Teaching International Law’ Panel held in October 2024, sponsored by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Chair of NLSIU.

Article 326 of the Indian Constitution guarantees the right to vote to every citizen above the age of twenty-one years who is otherwise not disqualified by unsoundness, non-residence, or crime or ille...

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Anshul Dalmia

This paper aims to problematise the low threshold of scrutiny applied by the Patna High Court in approving the Bihar Caste Survey without a concrete reason for the conduct of the same, especially in t...

Lakshmi Menon