Surbhi M. Karwa
@surbhikarwa.bsky.social
PhD (UNSW Law), BCL (Distinction) (University of Oxford). Constitutional and feminist theory. A work in progress human! 💜
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We are delighted to share Conor Gearty @lselaw.bsky.social’s reflections on writing: 8 tips for surviving (and enjoying!) academic writing.
Many thanks to Conor for sharing his insights!
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Many thanks to Conor for sharing his insights!
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Series: doi.org/10.53386/nil...
July 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
We are delighted to share Conor Gearty @lselaw.bsky.social’s reflections on writing: 8 tips for surviving (and enjoying!) academic writing.
Many thanks to Conor for sharing his insights!
Article: doi.org/10.53386/nil...
Series: doi.org/10.53386/nil...
Many thanks to Conor for sharing his insights!
Article: doi.org/10.53386/nil...
Series: doi.org/10.53386/nil...
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Book Launch Hybrid event with @tarunkhaitan.bsky.social & @surbhikarwa.bsky.social:
Hum Bharat Ke Log: Bhartiya Samvidhan Par Nau Nibandh
Discussants: Rochana Bajpai & Udit Bhatia
At SOAS/online
2.30 pm UK time/ 7 pm India time, Tuesday 16th September
Registration at: tktp.as/EPFWIE
Hum Bharat Ke Log: Bhartiya Samvidhan Par Nau Nibandh
Discussants: Rochana Bajpai & Udit Bhatia
At SOAS/online
2.30 pm UK time/ 7 pm India time, Tuesday 16th September
Registration at: tktp.as/EPFWIE
September 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Book Launch Hybrid event with @tarunkhaitan.bsky.social & @surbhikarwa.bsky.social:
Hum Bharat Ke Log: Bhartiya Samvidhan Par Nau Nibandh
Discussants: Rochana Bajpai & Udit Bhatia
At SOAS/online
2.30 pm UK time/ 7 pm India time, Tuesday 16th September
Registration at: tktp.as/EPFWIE
Hum Bharat Ke Log: Bhartiya Samvidhan Par Nau Nibandh
Discussants: Rochana Bajpai & Udit Bhatia
At SOAS/online
2.30 pm UK time/ 7 pm India time, Tuesday 16th September
Registration at: tktp.as/EPFWIE
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Princeton University is pleased to announce the call for applications to the Fung Global Fellows Program at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS). The program will select early-career scholars from around the world . . . ." puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
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September 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Princeton University is pleased to announce the call for applications to the Fung Global Fellows Program at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS). The program will select early-career scholars from around the world . . . ." puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
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बहुत दिनों बाद किसी किताब को पढ़ने की उत्सुकता महसूस हुई। जैसे ही यह किताब मेरे हाथ में आई, तुरंत पढ़ना शुरू कर दिया। शायद यह हिंदी से लगाव है, या प्रोफेसर @tarunkhaitan.bsky.social और @surbhikarwa.bsky.social के लेखन का प्रभाव।
August 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
बहुत दिनों बाद किसी किताब को पढ़ने की उत्सुकता महसूस हुई। जैसे ही यह किताब मेरे हाथ में आई, तुरंत पढ़ना शुरू कर दिया। शायद यह हिंदी से लगाव है, या प्रोफेसर @tarunkhaitan.bsky.social और @surbhikarwa.bsky.social के लेखन का प्रभाव।
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An Excerpt from "हम भारत के लोग", co-authored with @surbhikarwa.bsky.social
"हम भारत के लोग" का एक अंश, सुरभि करवा के साथ सह-लिखित।
"हम भारत के लोग" का एक अंश, सुरभि करवा के साथ सह-लिखित।
भारतीय संविधान की नये सिरे से पड़ताल करती पुस्तक
हम भारत के लोग : भारतीय संविधान पर नौ निबन्ध वाणी प्रकाशिन ग्रुप द्वारा प्रकाशित संविधान के जाने-माने ज्ञाता और लन्दन स्कूल ऑफ़ इकोनॉमिक्स एंड पॉलिटिकल साइंस...
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August 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
An Excerpt from "हम भारत के लोग", co-authored with @surbhikarwa.bsky.social
"हम भारत के लोग" का एक अंश, सुरभि करवा के साथ सह-लिखित।
"हम भारत के लोग" का एक अंश, सुरभि करवा के साथ सह-लिखित।
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In this piece for the National Law School Journal, I reflect on the silent archives of Indian constitutional history:
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Sieving Silence: The Communal Question and the Archive of Indian Constitutional History
This paper shows how the archive of Indian constitutional history limits access to constitutional disagreement. It attempts an alternative framing of the issue of political safeguards for religious mi...
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July 28, 2025 at 5:39 AM
In this piece for the National Law School Journal, I reflect on the silent archives of Indian constitutional history:
repository.nls.ac.in/nlsj/vol18/i...
repository.nls.ac.in/nlsj/vol18/i...
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New paper with @surbhikarwa.bsky.social on the institutional failings of the Chief Justice of India, part of a symposium on chief justices in comparative perspective. Available open access on @icon-s.bsky.social journal!
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The institutional failings of India’s Chief Justice in the age of Modi
Abstract. The Chief Justice of India (CJI) wields substantial institutional authority, They determine the composition of judicial benches at the Supreme Co
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June 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
New paper with @surbhikarwa.bsky.social on the institutional failings of the Chief Justice of India, part of a symposium on chief justices in comparative perspective. Available open access on @icon-s.bsky.social journal!
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Murujuga traditional custodian launches legal action against the federal government before Woodside’s North West Shelf decision. At risk of being destroyed - if approval is given - is the largest rock art site on the planet.
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Raelene Cooper v Minister for Environment
Raelene Cooper, Murujuga traditional custodian launches legal action against the federal government before North West Shelf decision.
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May 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Murujuga traditional custodian launches legal action against the federal government before Woodside’s North West Shelf decision. At risk of being destroyed - if approval is given - is the largest rock art site on the planet.
theaimn.net/raelene-coop...
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March 29, 2025 at 6:57 AM
March 29, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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@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!
March 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
@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!
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I used to like Neruda's work. Until I realised that he not only raped a Sri Lankan woman, but that he also wrote about it.
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March 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I used to like Neruda's work. Until I realised that he not only raped a Sri Lankan woman, but that he also wrote about it.
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An education in global history (actual and not imagined) must be mandatory for all authors.
WSJ sub: “Indian Partition went smoothly enough, right? Will try to remember to check this before publishing.”
February 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
An education in global history (actual and not imagined) must be mandatory for all authors.
Hello! I am visiting London School of Economics as Letten Fellow this term. Please say hello if you are around! So good to be back in London!
January 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Hello! I am visiting London School of Economics as Letten Fellow this term. Please say hello if you are around! So good to be back in London!
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New CCS issue (free to download for 3 weeks!) available here: tinyurl.com/2mu9kjen. Includes book review essays by @surbhikarwa.bsky.social Melissa Crouch and Nicholas Aroney.
January 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
New CCS issue (free to download for 3 weeks!) available here: tinyurl.com/2mu9kjen. Includes book review essays by @surbhikarwa.bsky.social Melissa Crouch and Nicholas Aroney.
📢 Planning to present your research at the 2025 ICON•S Annual Conference in Brasília? 🇧🇷
Check out this guide on how to make an individual submission! 📝
🗓️ Submit your abstracts by Jan 31!
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Check out this guide on how to make an individual submission! 📝
🗓️ Submit your abstracts by Jan 31!
🌐 Learn more: icon-society.org/icon-s-annua...
#iconsbrasilia
January 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Not many academic jobs on offer in law at the moment.. Check these out!
Three jobs open in Law at King’s College London (link below) - questions welcome!
- Professor of Law & Vice Dean (Research) (closing: 3 Feb)
- Professor of Public International Law (closing: 10 Feb)
- Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law (closing: 26 Jan)
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/search?...
- Professor of Law & Vice Dean (Research) (closing: 3 Feb)
- Professor of Public International Law (closing: 10 Feb)
- Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law (closing: 26 Jan)
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/search?...
Jobs search page
Search for current vacancies on campuses at King's College London.
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January 13, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Not many academic jobs on offer in law at the moment.. Check these out!
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New paper co-authored with the excellent @surbhikarwa.bsky.social on the institutional roles (and failures) of the Chief Justice of India. Part of forthcoming ICON journal symposium on chief justices in comparative perspective.
tinyurl.com/3tu5kmrh
tinyurl.com/3tu5kmrh
The Institutional Failings of India's Chief Justice in the Age of Modi (International Journal of Constitutional Law (I-CON), forthcoming)
The Chief Justice of India (CJI) wields substantial institutional authority. He determines the composition of judicial benches at the Supreme Court of India, al
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January 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
New paper co-authored with the excellent @surbhikarwa.bsky.social on the institutional roles (and failures) of the Chief Justice of India. Part of forthcoming ICON journal symposium on chief justices in comparative perspective.
tinyurl.com/3tu5kmrh
tinyurl.com/3tu5kmrh
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Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
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December 29, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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Applications for the 13th Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History are due in a couple of weeks, everyone! 15 Jan.2025: www.law.wisc.edu/hurst-instit... The 2025 Hurst will take place June 15-27, 2025 here in Madison, WI. Co-sponsored by @law.wisc.edu & the Am. Society for Legal History #legalhistory
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December 26, 2024 at 11:30 PM
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MP Mahua Moitra referenced my #ThousandCuts paper👇in her speech in Parliament today on the state of the Constitution. You can read the paper here:
doi.org/10.1515/lehr...
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December 13, 2024 at 3:54 PM
MP Mahua Moitra referenced my #ThousandCuts paper👇in her speech in Parliament today on the state of the Constitution. You can read the paper here:
doi.org/10.1515/lehr...
doi.org/10.1515/lehr...