In our latest from the SLR Interviews series, our editors spoke to Dr. Vibhuti Ramachandran about her recent book 'Immoral Traffic' (CUP 2025), on the practice of ethnography and the positionality of the ethnographer. forum.nls.ac.in/slr-forum-bl...
Photographs from our last session for this trimester and the 'Trials of Sovereignty' series. We were glad to discuss the book with Dr. Alastair McClure. We were also joined by Prof Mrinal Satish (Professor of Law, NLSIU) and Prof Samyak Ghosh (Assistant Professor, Social Sciences).
New on the SLR Forum: Dr. Srinivas Burra examines mainstream pedagogical approaches towards teaching international law, exploring methods for incorporating critical international law perspectives with a focus on Global South jurisprudence. forum.nls.ac.in/slr-forum-bl...
New on the SLR Forum: Dr. Ashna Singh argues that TWAIL scholarship on international law ignores caste in its teaching, research and discourse and shows that caste is central to the TWAIL perspective for the critical perspectives it offers on South Asia. forum.nls.ac.in/slr-forum-bl...
New on the SLR Forum: Dr. Akhila Basalalli analyses the need for a new pedagogy of international law, taking lessons from the growing integration and inward-looking normativity of international law. forum.nls.ac.in/slr-forum-bl...
New on the SLR Forum: Prof. Rohini Sen uses the feminist pedagogical techniques of standpoint theory and relational analysis to critically examine notions around expertise in teaching and research in international law academia. forum.nls.ac.in/slr-forum-bl...
New on the SLR Forum: Tanya Sara George and Abhishek Sanjay critique Section 62(5) of the RPA, which disenfranchises incarcerated persons - analysing its colonial origins, disproportionate impact on marginalised groups and jurisprudence on the issue. forum.nls.ac.in/slr-forum-bl...
In the second iteration of the SLR Reading Circle, this term we are reading Dr. Alastair McClure's Trials of Sovereignty over four sessions. If you're on campus, join us! Details of the first session are here, we are reading Chapter 1 with Dr. Samyak Ghosh.
The SLR Forum now has a new home! Do engage with the breadth of socio-legal scholarship that we have published here over the years. forum.nls.ac.in/slr-forum/
New on the SLR Forum: Anshul Dalmia empirically analyses 34 recent constitution bench judgments for their level of accessibility, on metrics of the availability of transcripts, translations into vernacular languages, clarity and brevity. www.sociolegalreview.com/post/who-can...
New on the SLR Forum: Anagha Damaraju argues that the Patna HC's hasty approval of the Bihar caste survey's data collection modalities may lead to the misuse of sensitive data, rendering marginalised caste groups susceptible to privacy violations.
New on the SLR Forum: Lakshmi Menon, from The Square Circle Clinic, reviews Alastair McClure's book 'Trials of Sovereignty', arguing that discretionary capital sentencing follows a colonial legacy designed for subjugation and punishment. www.sociolegalreview.com/post/the-leg...
Our Special 20th Anniversary Issue ends with a Postscript written by Kalyani Ramnath, Editor-in-Chief of SLR in 2007. Ramnath reflects on SLR’s journey, particularly the initial years, placing the question of socio-legal in an institutional context. repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol20/is...
This looks fantastic, with a great line-up of scholars including legal historians Elizabeth Lhost and Kalyani Ramnath (who was there in the early days)! Also includes Anup Surendranath & Maitreyi Misra on death penalty (India) and Maryam Khan on socio-legal studies in Pakistan. Congratulations, all!
SLR's Special 20th Anniversary Issue is out now! Volume 20(2) reflects on two decades of socio-legal inquiry from India, South Asia, and beyond—through legal history, anthropology, mitigation practice, comparative method & institutional memory. Read here: repository.nls.ac.in/slr/
In our fifth and final article, Sara Dezalay asks what a socio-legal enquiry looks like on a "global" scale when seen from the vantage point of Africa, showing the entanglement of law in the selective globalisation fostered by global value chains. repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol20/is...
In our fourth article, Maryam S Khan shows the emergence and development of socio-legal research in Pakistan in broad comparison with India, arguing that the meaning and evolution of “socio” in socio-legal is contingent on social and historical contexts. repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol20/is...
In our third article, Anup Surendranath and Maitreyi Misra show how mitigation practice—which draws heavily from social science disciplines—brings forth the tensions between the ostensible neatness of legal doctrine and the complexity of social reality. repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol20/is...
The second article in our Special Issue is by Deepa Das Acevedo and Jahnavi Chamarthi who discuss the relationship between the subdiscipline of legal anthropology and the broader field of law and society scholarship, with a special focus on India and SLR. repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol20/is...
In the first article of our Special Anniversary Issue, Elizabeth Lhost critically examines what constitutes “law’s archive” when doing legal history. Outlining trends in socio-legal history, she asks how a critical historian can tell a story of fragments. repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol20/is...
SLR's Special 20th Anniversary Issue is out now! Volume 20(2) reflects on two decades of socio-legal inquiry from India, South Asia, and beyond—through legal history, anthropology, mitigation practice, comparative method & institutional memory. Read here: repository.nls.ac.in/slr/
The recording of the launch event of our Special 20th Anniversary Issue is now available on our YouTube channel. If you missed it, go watch an insightful discussion on the contours of socio-legal scholarship today, with special focus on South Asia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5Mu...
