Bhavya Johari is a Lecturer at Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, India; Assistant Editor of the Jindal Global Law Review; and Consulting Director at IDIA (Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access), a national non-profit organisation that empowers students from underprivileged and marginalised backgrounds to pursue legal education. He earned his undergraduate law degree from NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, graduating with 10 gold medals awarded by the President of India. He holds an LL.M. from Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, where he was an Alex Chernov Scholar and received the Danny Sandor Prize in Children’s Rights.
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Making Apartheid Irreversible: Israel’s Death Penalty Statutes and Third State Obligations
When the Israeli Knesset voted to approve the Death Penalty for Terrorists Bill on 30 March 2026, it made irreversible through state-administered killing what the International Court of Justice (ICJ) had found unlawful. In its ...
From Housing Rights to Street Situations: The Juridical Narrowing of Homelessness
On 30 March 2026, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) adopted a resolution on the human rights of persons in street situations without a vote, marking the first standalone HRC resolution addressing homelessness. This arrives ...
Judging the Judge: India’s Curriculum Ban and Democratic Accountability
On February 26, 2026, India's Supreme Court took suo motu cognizance of a grade 8 NCERT textbook chapter titled “Corruption in the Judiciary,” directing seizure of all circulating copies and imposing a blanket publication ban. Two ...
When Presumption of Guilt Meets Indefinite Detention: India’s Anti-Terror Law Dilemma
Can a constitutional democracy legitimise exceptional liberty burdens by declaration? India's Supreme Court recently grappled with this question in a landmark ruling that exposes fault lines between counter-terrorism imperatives and ...
Beyond Procedural Relief: The Case for Systemic Constitutional Review of India’s Anti-Conversion Laws
On 17 October 2025, the Supreme Court of India in Rajendra Bihari Lal v. State of Uttar Pradesh, quashed multiple FIRs under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021 (UP Act), arising from alleged ...
India’s Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016: An Unfulfilled Promise
India's enactment of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPWD) Act 2016 was a pivotal step towards aligning its legal framework with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Despite the progressive ...
