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The sedition trials that Bal Gangadhar Tilak faced and the imprisonments he endured, greatly contributed to India attaining freedom in the next three decades.

A reform intended to strengthen the legal profession should facilitate access to it, not make entry into the profession more unaffordable.

Recently, there were several reported incidents of detention of protesting students without formal arrest across several police stations in the country.

The book brings together contributions from judges, scholars and practitioners to examine the evolution of Indian constitutionalism.

In the age of live-streaming and social media, restraint before speaking is often a better safeguard than regulation after the event.

Does the pursuit of digital sovereignty reproduce older structures of extraction in a new technological form?

The Supreme Court's judgment in Ujaas Energy reminds us that the Clean Slate Doctrine is directed at extinguishing claims and not necessarily every legal consequence that may flow from the facts under ...

There is sufficient talent within the system which can and ought to be tapped and used to reduce the delays which our present legal system is burdened with.

Whether the police's Section 163 order ultimately survives scrutiny will depend on the State's justification and the Court's application of proportionality.

Indian law still lacks a dedicated statutory framework allocating liability and compensation for harms caused by government algorithmic decision-making.