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New on the SLR Forum: Sumedha Edara analyses 'In Re: Right to Privacy of Adolescents (2025)', situating Article 142 as a mechanism for facilitating a more dignitarian and agency-sensitive reading of provisions.
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Rescuing Justice from the Law: How the Court Heard What the Law Could Not Say - NLS Forum
Balancing interests of consenting adolescents vis-a-vis the POCSO Act requires an approach beyond the law itself.
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December 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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In the third iteration of the SLR Reading Circle, this term we are reading a set of texts curated for the theme 'Law and the Paper Archive'. The concept note and session plan can be found here: www.nls.ac.in/news-events/...
A poster for the Socio-Legal Review (SLR) Reading Circle. The background features an illustrated Mughal-style painting with figures in traditional attire. Overlaid text reads: “SLR Reading Circle – Law and the Paper Archive, Session 1. Rosalind O’Hanlon, ‘In the Presence of Witnesses: Petitioning and Judicial “Publics” in Western India, circa 1600–1820’ (2019). Discussant: Dr. Samyak Ghosh. Date: Wednesday, 26th November 2025. Time: 5 PM. Venue: NAB 104.” The SLR logo appears at the top, and a small credit at the bottom right notes “Image: Modern Asian Studies Vol. 53 (1) Cover.”
December 2, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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In this series on Sara Dezalay's Lawyering Imperial Encounters: Negotiating Africa’s Relationship with the World Economy (Cambridge University Press 2024), Faisal Chaudhry's review engages with the book’s own preferred metaphor, of law as “a Möbius ribbon."
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Through the Möbius Ribbon: Grappling with Dezalay's Lawering Imperial Encounters - NLS Forum
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...
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November 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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For the SLR Forum, we continue to invite contributions on a rolling basis in the form of short essays and commentary on contemporary developments or issues that speak to the Aims and Scope of the Journal.

To submit, please mail us at sociolegalreviewforum@gmail.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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NLSIU’s Socio-Legal Review (SLR) Journal is now inviting submissions for Volume 22(1) of the Journal. The deadline is 31st January 2026.

Please find the submission guidelines here: repository.nls.ac.in/slr/policies...

Please find all other relevant details here: drive.google.com/file/d/131cp...
November 15, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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New on the SLR Forum: Dr. Chandrabhan Yadav interviews Dr. Shivani Kapoor on Professor Tulsi Ram's Hindi autobiography and the political possibilities embedded in the autobiographical form and its engagement with caste and Dalit experience.
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The Political Potential of Dalit Autobiographies: An Interview with Dr. Shivani Kapoor - NLS Forum
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...
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November 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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New on the SLR Forum: For 'Voices from the Field', Mahek Bhatia reflects on the implications of digital networking methods for researchers conducting socio-legal fieldwork in India, particularly for questions of positionality and access.
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Blurring the Insider/Outsider Distinction? Reflections on the Impact of Digital Networking on Legal Fieldwork in India - NLS Forum
Mahek Bhatia
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November 13, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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New on the SLR Forum: In this two-part series, our editors interview Dr. Saagar Tewari about his new book, 'Islands Against Civilization: Anthropology, Nationalism, and the Politics of Scheduling, 1918-1950' (Orient BlackSwan, 2024).
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Colonial Continuities in the History of Scheduling: An Interview with Dr. Saagar Tewari - NLS Forum
An interview with historian Dr. Saagar Tewari by SLR Editors Ritu Ranjan and Abhinav Jha.
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October 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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New on the SLR Forum: Tanishq Desai critiques the legitimacy of cash bail, using Bourdieu’s framework of symbolic violence to interrogate its disproportionate impact against working-class persons.
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Why Is There a Price to Freedom? - NLS Forum
Tanishq Desai
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October 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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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.
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On Positionality, Ethics and the Morals of Fieldwork: An Interview with Vibhuti Ramachandran - NLS Forum
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...
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September 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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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.
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Teaching International Law: Navigating between Mainstream and Critical International Law - NLS Forum
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...
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September 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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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.
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The teaching and researching of critical international law in TWAIL - NLS Forum
Paper presented at the ‘Teaching International Law’ Panel held in October 2024, sponsored by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Chair of NLSIU.
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September 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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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.
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Growing Integration and Inward-looking Normativity of International Law: Do We Need a New Pedagogy? - NLS Forum
Paper presented at the ‘Teaching International Law’ Panel held in October 2024, sponsored by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Chair of NLSIU.
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September 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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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.
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Feminist Pedagogy as a Tool to Unsettle Expertise in Legal Academia - NLS Forum
Paper presented at the ‘Teaching International Law’ Panel held in October 2024, sponsored by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Chair of NLSIU.
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September 2, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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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.
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Punishment, Citizenship, and the Right to Vote: A Democratic Contradiction - NLS Forum
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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September 1, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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We are meeting for our second session today, to discuss Chapter 3 of the book with Dr. Mrinal Satish. Do join us if you're on campus, details here.
August 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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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.
A poster with a yellow background and a beige horizontal panel at the top, on which the text is 'SLR, Socio-Legal Review.' The poster is divided into two vertical panels, with a photo of a book 'Trials of Sovereignty: Mercy, Violence and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857-1922' by Alastair McClure on the left side. The words on the right side are as follows: 'SLR Reading Circle' followed by 'Session 1', 'Chapter 1: Forgetting War and Punishing Crime', 'Lead Discussant: Dr. Samyak Ghosh', 'Date: Wednesday, 13th August 2025; Time: 4:30 PM; Venue: CrL01'.
August 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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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.
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Homepage of the SLR section
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August 20, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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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.
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Who Can Hear the Constitution Bench Speak?
Anshul Dalmia
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August 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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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.

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Caste Data, Digitisation and its Problematic Impact on Privacy and Policing
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...
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August 3, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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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.
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The Legacy of Capital Sentencing Discretion: Unpacking the Unfair History behind ‘fair’ Powers of Discretion
Lakshmi Menon
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June 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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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...
The picture shows the first page of the Postscript, accessible using the link in the post.
June 25, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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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!
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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/
Table of Contents from Socio-Legal Review, Volume 20, Issue 2. The contents include: Editorial – page vi Articles: Fingerprints and Fragments: Reflections on the Challenges and Contributions of Socio-Legal History by Elizabeth Lhost – page 1 Cultivating Attentiveness to Law in India through Legal Anthropology by Deepa Das Acevedo & Jahnavi Chamarthi – page 25 The Meaning and Challenges of an Interdisciplinary Sentencing Exercise: Reflections from a Death Penalty Mitigation Practice by Anup Surendranath and Maitreyi Misra – page 52 Locating Socio-Legal Research in Pakistan: A Reflexive Approach by Maryam S Khan – page 92 Socio-Legal Enquiry on a Global Scale: Legal Intermediation, the Geography of Extraction, and the (Re)Negotiation of Africa’s Relationship with the World Economy by Sara Dezalay – page 120 Postscript by Kalyani Ramnath – page 149
June 20, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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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...
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June 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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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...
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June 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM