When Justice Delays Justice: How Structural Judicial Failures Harm Human Rights in South Asia
In South Asia, the courts are often the last and only place to turn to for justice. But what happens when the institutions entrusted with upholding rights become complicit in...
Courting the Heat: India’s Legal Reckoning with Climate-Driven Heatwaves
As India suffers through yet another year of scorching summers, heatwaves have turned into a recurring and lethal aspect of the climate crisis. Statistics capture only a fraction of a...
Reopening Finality: Capital Punishment on Trial (Again)
Capital punishment has been the subject of considerable judicial discourse in India, a significant part of which has focused on isolating the right to life from sweeping judicial discretion in...
Reforming the Last-Mile Caregivers: A Need to Investigate the Geriatric-Care Legal Provisions in India
In April 2025, the United Nations Human Rights Council began an intergovernmental process to draft an international human rights treaty on older people. Against this backdrop, India ought to review...
Weaponising Reform: The Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 and Its Assault on Religious Freedom
On 6 April 2025, the President of India gave assent to the Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency, and Development Act, 2025, marketed as a measure to “streamline” oversight of India’s...
Beyond Childbirth: Addressing the Rights of Commissioning Mothers in the Indian Legal Landscape
The Orissa High Court (the Court) in Supriya Jena v State Of Odisha & Ors has ruled that female employees who have become mothers through surrogacy are entitled to equal...
Access Denied? Disability and Digital Identification in India: Reflections after Pragya Prasun and Amar Jain
On 30 April 2025, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India delivered a landmark judgment in Pragya Prasun & Ors. v. Union of India and Amar Jain v....
Supreme Court of India Moves from Tolerance to Acceptance for Persons with Disabilities
Constitutionally, there is enough consensus around the fact that law must acknowledge the unequal realities of its subjects, and anything less than that may be formal equality but not substantive...
The Curious Case of Custodial Torture in India
In February 2025, the High Court of Justice in London, King’s Bench Division, rejected the extradition of Sanjay Bhandari to India on the ground of custodial torture. Bhandari is an...
Breaking Encryption, Breaking Rights? France’s Legislative Stand and What India Must Learn
On 20 March 2025, the French National Assembly voted down Article 8 of the proposed Drug Trafficking Bill (“Proposition de loi visant à sortir la France du piège du narcotrafic”),...
When Bulldozer Justice Breeds Injustice: Indian Supreme Court Curtails Arbitrary Demolitions
On 13 November 2024, the apex court of India delivered a landmark judgment in In Re: Directions in the matter of demolition of structures addressing the important injustice being caused...
The Legality of Indore’s Anti-Begging Notification
The District Administration of the city of Indore, India has issued a notification under Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023 (the new Criminal Procedure Code), penalising...
