Can an Algorithm Decide Who Is a Child? Facial Age Estimation and the Benefit of the Doubt at the UK Border
From 2027, the UK Home Office plans to introduce facial age estimation technology at the border as an additional tool for assessing the age of individuals whose claimed age is...
Lest We Forget: The Gambian FGM Ban at the Supreme Court and Why Women’s Rights are at Stake
There is a looming constitutional crisis and an atrocious legal battle unfolding in The Gambia, where the fate of the country’s prohibition of female genital mutilation (FGM) now stands before...
Seeing What the Law Cannot: Open-Source Investigation as a Missing Tool in Modern Slavery Enforcement
In 2023, migrant workers from Nepal and Bangladesh claimed they had been trafficked to Malaysia and forced to work making parts for the Dyson manufacturer. In Limbu v Dyson Technology...
When Protection Becomes Punishment: India’s POCSO Act, Adolescent Autonomy, and the Limits of the Bright Line
On 16 April 2026, the Delhi High Court in Harmeet Singh v. State (GNCT of Delhi) quashed a criminal case against a young man whose only “victim” – the seventeen-year-old...
A Renewed Push for Stringent Funding Restrictions on NGOs: India’s Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026
The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill 2026, introduced in India’s Lok Sabha (House of the People), which is the part of the Lower House of the Legislature of the Union...
Religious Autonomy and Genuine Occupational Requirements: The CJEU’s Judgment in Katholische Schwangerschaftsberatung v JB
In Katholische Schwangerschaftsberatung v JB the CJEU returned to consider the question of how to balance the right of religious organisations to religious autonomy with the right of their staff...
Constitutional Morality and the Future of Rights Jurisprudence in India
A nine-judge Bench of the Supreme Court of India is presently hearing a review petition against its judgment in Indian Young Lawyers Association v. State of Kerala, wherein the Court...
Will Granting Personhood to the Aravallis in India Help the Fight Against Mining?: Lessons from Niyamgiri Incident
The Indian Supreme Court in an order in November 2025 has attempted to create a uniform standard for identifying ‘Aravallis’, a mountain range in India, to curb widespread illegal mining...
Love under Watch: Gujarat’s Marriage Amendment and the Limits of Personal Freedom
The recent proposed amendment to Gujarat’s Registration of Marriages Act, 2006, is a troubling expansion of state involvement in the most private and intimate choices of adult citizens. Under the...
Access Denied: Assessing Thailand’s Legal Obligations to Displaced Persons from Prey Chan and Chouk Chey (Ban Nong Ya Kaeo) Under International Humanitarian Law
There are reports of forced displacements at the disputed Thai-Cambodian border areas. The villages of Prey Chan and Chouk Chey (Ban Nong Ya Kaeo in Thai sources) have seen Cambodian...
Amending Article 319 of Senegal’s 1965 Penal Code Violates the Human Right to Health
On 11th March 2026, Senegal passed a bill doubling the punishment enshrined in the queerphobic provision Article 319 of the 1965 Penal Code from a maximum imprisonment of five years...
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...
