On the occasion of our 8th Convocation, we were graced with the presence of Prof. Madhava Menon, former Vice Chancellor of WBNUJS and NLSIU. He took a few moments to sit down and have a candid chat with us. Here are the excerpts of that interview… Meenakshi Kurpad (MK): You first mentioned in one of … Continue reading Conversation with Prof. Madhava Menon, former Vice-Chancellor, NLSIU and WBNUJS
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A Level Playing Field: Myth or Reality?
by Yogini Oke Introduction The year 2012 brought a lot of welcome changes for the class of disabled people in India. The year witnessed the culmination of a decade long fight of disability-rights activists, academicians, lawyers etc for the people with disabilities as reflected in the amendments made in the Copyright Act. The Ministry of … Continue reading A Level Playing Field: Myth or Reality?
Audio Lecture by Dr. Uday Chandra
Journal of Indian Law and Society in association with the NUJS Constitutional Law Society organized a lecture by Dr. Uday Chandra on "Liberalism and its Other: Primitivism in Colonial and Postcolonial Indian Law" on January 23rd, 2014 at NUJS. Following is the recorded audio version of the lecture: The paper has been published in the … Continue reading Audio Lecture by Dr. Uday Chandra
Call for Papers: Special Issue in Honour of Lotika Sarkar
JOURNAL OF INDIAN LAW AND SOCIETY“Indian Feminisms, Law Reform and the Law Commission of India: Special Issue in Honour of Lotika Sarkar”Guest Editors: Rukmini Sen & Saptarshi Mandal[*]CALL FOR PAPERSWhether in terms of concrete statutory changes or as a discursive space for articulating new meanings, law reform has been an important political objectives for the … Continue reading Call for Papers: Special Issue in Honour of Lotika Sarkar
Coming To Grips With Population Growth: Search For The Better Way
By Padmini SubhashreeThe issue of population explosion in India isn’t a novelty any more. It has been realised time and again that there is a strong parallel between the tempo of population growth and the standard of development in a country. This axiomatic problem has lead to a Public Interest Litigation filed by Avishek Goenka … Continue reading Coming To Grips With Population Growth: Search For The Better Way
Statement of NUJS Faculty Members
STATEMENT OF NUJS FACULTY MEMBERS On the 6th of November, 2013, Ms. Stella James, one of our former students wrote a blog post highlighting the conflicting range of emotions that she underwent in the aftermath of sexual harassment at the hands of a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India. Subsequent to this, the … Continue reading Statement of NUJS Faculty Members
Statement of Stella James on 23rd December 2013
Statement of Stella James on 23rd December 2013 It has been widely reported in the news today that former Justice A.K. Ganguly has written a letter to the Hon’ble Chief Justice of India. Several questions have been raised in the past few weeks, and I think it is appropriate at this stage, for me to … Continue reading Statement of Stella James on 23rd December 2013
Statement of Stella James – 21.11.2013
On the 12th of November 2013, the Chief Justice of India set up a three-member Committee to look into a matter of sexual harassment that I had faced by a former Supreme Court Judge. As requested by the Committee, I appeared before them on the 18th of November. During the meeting, I presented all the … Continue reading Statement of Stella James – 21.11.2013
Statement of Stella James
Date - 12.11.2013 Statement of Stella James At around 2.30 pm today, a friend who practices in the Supreme Court called me up to inform that the Chief Justice has formed a committee to look into the issues raised in my blog post. Since yesterday, a lot of media persons have tried to contact me … Continue reading Statement of Stella James
Through my Looking Glass
by Stella James Sometimes the most difficult things to write about are also the most essential. I feel this is especially true when many people, much more scholarly than oneself, have already said and written a lot around the issue, and yet your own experience does not seem to fit into the wide net that … Continue reading Through my Looking Glass
The Journal of Indian Law and Society 