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The Socio-Legal Review is a student-edited, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal published by the

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18/12/2022

SLR is inviting submissions for Volume 19, Issue 1. The deadline for submission is December 30 2022 and all submissions have to be mailed to [email protected]. We also accept submissions on a rolling basis. Contributions are invited in the following categories- Long Articles (6,000-8,000 words), Short Articles (3,500-5,000 words), Book Reviews (2,000-3,000 words), Case Notes/Legislative Comments (1,500-2,500 words) and Notes from the Field.

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09/08/2022

SLR is now inviting submissions for Volume 19(1). The deadline for submission is October 15, 2022. All submissions must be mailed to [email protected]. Please visit our website for more information about the journal and its submission guidelines, or for access to past issues (http://sociolegalreview.com). For any queries, please contact us at the above-mentioned email ID.

23/05/2022

We conclude Volume 17(2) with a Book Review by Sayantan Saha Roy of The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India (2020) by Jinee Lokaneeta. The author comments on how this book adds to an already bourgeoning literature on state violence in India but unsettles some of the presumptions that has framed the field so far.

Access the review here:https://www.sociolegalreview.com/_files/ugd/d56aa6_b6e8203682384cb7bed02d01910b3f42.pdf

16/05/2022

The third article in Volume 17(2), Urvi Pathak’s 'Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees, Statelessness and the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019: Pathways to Indian Citizenship', analyses the implication of India’s of recognition of “refugees” and “stateless persons” as legally separate categories, resulting in Sri Lankan Tamil refugees have lived as stateless persons for decades in India. The author explores recent shifts in Indian citizenship laws, which have been embroiled in the tension between jus soli and jus sanguinis bases of citizenship, particularly with the category of “illegal migrant” and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, and their impact on Sri Lankan Tamil refugees’ citizenship. The author argues in favour of the need for a forward-looking reconceptualization of Indian citizenship laws based on the jus soli principle; and a recognition of India’s burden under the UN Conventions on statelessness to reduce and prevent statelessness, particularly through eliminating documentation-heavy citizenship determinations.

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06/05/2022

Our second article of Volume 17(2) is Ambika Tandon’s ‘Privacy and Reproductive Health: Curtailing Rights and Choices’. The author analyses two services: conditional cash transfers tied to maternal health, and abortion services that have been used to monitor and control developmental indicators. Through interviews with women patients, their families, and health providers in New Delhi, the author finds how monitoring systems can restrict women’s access to critical services. The author then analyses how reproductive rights and various dimensions of privacy, including informational privacy and decisional autonomy are intrinsically linked since health providers were forced to prioritise data collection over inclusive delivery of services.

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26/04/2022

We are delighted to announce that Volume 17(2) of our Journal has now been published online. Due to the pandemic, we have decided to release the Journal online, prior to the hard copy publication, considering the delays that might arise in the printing of the Journal.

Volume 17(2) features pieces by Shraddha Chaudhary, Ambika Tandon, Urvi Pathak, John Sebastian and Sayantan Saha Roy. With this Issue, we hope to contribute to the existing socio-legal literature in the South-Asian region. We hope you enjoy reading this Issue.

You can find the Issue in the archives section of our website: https://www.sociolegalreview.com/archives

We are extremely grateful to Eastern Book Company for helping us with the publication of this Issue. We would also like to thank all the authors for their patience and co-operation throughout the editorial process. Lastly, we would like to thank the editorial board for all their efforts in shaping up this Issue.

18/02/2022

The Socio-Legal Review, NLSIU is delighted to share with you the publication of the panel report on socio-legal water and sanitation, hosted by SLR and the Rehabilitation Research Initiative on May 23, 2021. The discussion covered a range of issues- from the impact that the pandemic has had on sanitation practices, to the evolution of state policy and judicial intervention, as well as bringing on record experiences from the field.

You can access the report at the following link - https://www.sociolegalreview.com/post/panel-report-socio-legal-water-and-sanitation-dialogue

09/12/2021

We conclude Volume 17(1) with Arun K. Thiruvengadam’s book review of Justice versus Judiciary: Justice Enthroned or Entangled in India? (Oxford University Press 2019) written by Sudhanshu Ranjan. Thiruvengadam first gives a brief overview of the book, touching on its principal themes. He concludes with an assessment of the book’s virtues and weaknesses, highlighting the importance of scholarship by legal journalists in current times.

Access the review here:https://www.sociolegalreview.com/_files/ugd/d56aa6_51cda9eb97304754bdc445b87030d0e3.pdf

26/11/2021

In the fourth article of Volume 17(1), Shruti Iyer contributes to the scholarship on public interest litigation (‘PIL’) in 'Silicosis and the State: Configuring Labour’s Interest as the Public Interest' by showing how the figure of the worker suffering from silicosis, an occupational lung disease, has been constructed in the judicial course. Tracing the shifts in legalese, Iyer demonstrates how the Supreme Court has been subject to varying pressures in its decision-making leading to confusing orders by it.

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16/11/2021

The third article in Volume 17(1) is 'Hadiya, Hinduism and Heterosexuality' by Professor Madhavi Menon. Given the current spate of anti-conversion laws enacted by various states in India, this is a crucial piece discussing the paradox of sexual desire which is simultaneously private and public. While it is seen as the domain of an individual, it is also governed by public regulations of religion, caste and gender. Through the Hadiya case, Menon shows how cross-communal desire is criminalized in the country and the aftermath of a woman’s non-normative choice in religion and marriage.

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08/11/2021

The second article in Volume 17(1) is 'Experiences of Dispute Resolution in Non-Court Forums: Justice Sans Rule of Law' by Shruti Vidyasagar and Shruthi Naik. They examine the functioning of non-court forums of dispute resolution through the prism of rule of law with a special focus on the question of women’s rights, autonomy and agency in the dispute resolution process.

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01/11/2021

The first piece that is to be published in Volume 17(1) of Socio-Legal Review is Rangin Pallav Tripathy's 'The Supreme Court Collegium and Transparency: A Non-Committal Relationship'. Through an examination of the Supreme Court collegium’s published resolutions, Tripathy provides an empirical assessment of the collegium’s commitment to transparency. He shows how the collegium has systematically failed to disclose meaningful and critical information, reneging on its objective of promoting transparency.

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