Chiles v. Salazar: Free Speech, Religious Liberty, and the Invisibility of LGBTQ Harm
On March 31, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Chiles v. Salazar, holding that Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors violates the Free Speech Clause as...
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...
Punitive Use of Preventive Powers in India
On 24th September 2025, four people were killed in police firing after protests for statehood in Ladakh turned violent. On the heels of this unfortunate incident, climate activist Sonam Wangchuk...
Weaponized Legalism and the Promise-Performance Gap: Press Suppression in Transitional Democracies: Part 2 – Comparative Global South Perspectives
In Part 1, I examined how Bangladesh’s interim government weaponized legal frameworks to suppress the press; Part 2 broadens the lens to parallel patterns across the wider Global South and...
Weaponized Legalism and the Promise-Performance Gap: Press Suppression in Transitional Democracies: Part 1 – Bangladesh
This two-part blog examines how transitional governments in the Global South systematically suppress press freedom through “weaponized legalism”—the use of formally legal procedures to violate fundamental rights while maintaining constitutional...
India’s Deepfake Dilemma: Why Publicity Rights and the Proposed Intermediary Rules Both Miss the Mark
On October 22, 2025, India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) proposed a set of amendments to the existing Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules,...
Reassessing Corporate Due Diligence Standards in Dual-Use Technology Supply Chains
Amnesty International’s recent report “Shadows of Control” documents how companies from Germany, the UAE, Canada, China, the US, and France have supplied surveillance and censorship technologies to Pakistan: technologies now...
Connectivity Without Access: How Nepal’s Social Media Ban Strips Substance from the Right to Internet Access
In September 2025, Nepal faced massive public protests triggered by a ban on social media apps and websites, where a total of 26 applications were taken down. The protests turned...
Retroceso Democrático y Mecanismos Diagonales de Control: Lecciones del ‘Asunto Kimmel’ — Part II
Cuando Jimmy Kimmel se burló del asesino de Charlie Kirk, difícilmente pudo imaginar que su comentario satírico acabaría provocando la ira del presidente de la Comisión Federal de Comunicaciones (FCC,...
Retroceso Democrático y Mecanismos Diagonales de Control: Lecciones del ‘Asunto Kimmel’ — Part I
Cuando Jimmy Kimmel se burló del asesino de Charlie Kirk, difícilmente pudo imaginar que su comentario satírico acabaría provocando la ira del presidente de la Comisión Federal de Comunicaciones (FCC,...
Democratic Backsliding vs the Diagonal Accountability Branch: Lessons from the Kimmel Episode — Part II
When Jimmy Kimmel cracked a joke about Charlie Kirk’s murderer, he likely never imagined that this routine act of satirical commentary could lead to him being effectively silenced by private...
Democratic Backsliding vs the Diagonal Accountability Branch: Lessons from the Kimmel Episode — Part I
When Jimmy Kimmel cracked a joke about Charlie Kirk’s murderer, he likely never imagined that this routine act of satirical commentary could lead to him being effectively silenced by private...
