How can we care for candidates during the academic hiring process? In all the talk for taking mental health seriously, this is an oft forgotten area in academic departments.

What are your thoughts? Here’s one: candidates should be informed of the reasons for their rejection. Something specific they can work on instead on going mad trying to work out why they weren’t selected. No chickening out by saying- lots of applications, can tell you why you weren’t good enough.

Since 2023, I have hosted a transdisciplinary lecture series on gender and sexuality. Past recorded lectures are now on our brand new Youtube channel! Two wonderful lectures on intersex rights, and queer parenting laws in the UK await you! tinyurl.com/2jhv2de5 Please show us some love!💡💟 #lgbtqia+

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Breaking down the trans judgment of the UKSC through social science studies, domestic law, and international law. Really good stuff at the Law in Context podcast. Listen in 🎧🦻

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Controversial human rights issues—abortion, surrogacy, queer rts, etc., spark passionate religious and cultural debates. How do they shape court decisions in secular democracies? I explore this in my upcoming book, With God as Our Witness, and I enjoyed debating it at NLSIU. Thank you! #law #lawsky

Absolutely! Let’s find a time to talk :)

And I argued that there was a core to the secularism doctrine in India. 🇮🇳

Anjali Rawat theorised on a right to convert within the right to religion in India🕉️☪️✝️🪯

Almas Shaikh’s paper showed how the current reservation law misses the most disadvantaged groups 🚷

Mihika Poddar’s paper was about dismantling the preconceptions that many have in the caste reservation debate, that caste certificates are actually very easy to obtain. She showed us the bureaucratic detail involved in them, which was eye-watering 👮🚔🗄️📑

@surbhikarwa.bsky.social took us through the debates on women’s reservation in the Constituent Assembly to show how they conceptualise equality, explaining the formal equality and indivisibility discourses that predomainted the discussion 🟰🚺

@rishikasahgal.bsky.social focussed our attention on the administrative processes that regulate a right to housing— notice, hearing, and engagement, and made a case for how courts have a regulatory role in this process🏘️

@rupavardhini.bsky.social 📝 clarified the semantic confusion on language debates in constitution making.

Massive thanks to Sheffield Law School and UNSW for sponsoring and supporting this!

Keep reading to see who participated and what they presented! 🧵

@surbhikarwa.bsky.social and I organised a workshop on ‘Contemporary issues in Indian Constitutionalism’ 🥳 An absolute delight: sharing our work and feeding back into each other’s papers. By some fortunate accident, it was an all women’s forum. As accidents go, I couldn’t have planned it better!

Please add me, if possible.

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@rupavardhini.bsky.social and I have put together a starter pack of scholars working on global south constitutionalism. Let us know if you would like to join us!

Congratulations, Sen!

My pleasure and toot toot!

Thanks SJ! What did you think of the turn of events?

Sometimes, but only sometimes, two wrongs can make a right. Based on an erroneous definition of transgender in a prior case, which was then codified, the Kerala High Court has found that intersex children cannot be subjected to surgeries based on parental consent alone.
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