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Access to knowledge or publisher profits? The challenges of fair copying for...
LSE’s Sivaramjani Thambisetty analyses India’s copyright law and the potential impact of a ‘fair use’ case on access to educational materials in the country. August was not a good month for the...
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Imagining an accessible India
LSE’s Sivaramjani Thambisetty observes how the Electronic Delivery of Services Bill could mark the coming of age of the disability movement in India. A few months ago while parked at Bangalore’s RT...
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Siva Thambisetty discusses the implications for standards of disclosure of the Indian Supreme Court’s recent decision on a drug patent for Novartis. This post first appeared on Spicy IP. I was really...
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An innocent omission? Forced labour and India’s anti-trafficking law
Prabha Kotiswaran asks why, in a departure from international anti-trafficking law, India omitted reference to forced labour when criminalising trafficking in the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2013....
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What rights do women in India in relationships akin to marriage have?
A recent Madras High Court judgement made headlines for suggesting that couples who have premarital sex can be considered to be married. Jayna Kothari puts the judgement in legal context and argues...
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What rights for the Queer Aadmi in India?
Sudheesh examines the Indian Supreme Court’s recent decision to recriminalise homosexuality, and draws attention to the distinction between ‘constitutional morality’ and ‘public morality’ made by the...
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Women’s experiences of local justice: Community mediation in Sri Lanka
Ramani Jayasundere and Craig Valters analyse discrimination against women in Sri Lanka’s mediation boards and call for reforms to improve gender sensitivity. This post first appeared on the blog of the...
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Access to knowledge or publisher profits? The challenges of fair copying for...
LSE’s Sivaramjani Thambisetty analyses India’s copyright law and the potential impact of a ‘fair use’ case on access to educational materials in the country. August was not a good month for the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Imagining an accessible India
LSE’s Sivaramjani Thambisetty observes how the Electronic Delivery of Services Bill could mark the coming of age of the disability movement in India. A few months ago while parked at Bangalore’s RT...
View ArticleNovartis vs Union of India: Against elastic claims and why specialisation may...
Siva Thambisetty discusses the implications for standards of disclosure of the Indian Supreme Court’s recent decision on a drug patent for Novartis. This post first appeared on Spicy IP. I was really...
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An innocent omission? Forced labour and India’s anti-trafficking law
Prabha Kotiswaran asks why, in a departure from international anti-trafficking law, India omitted reference to forced labour when criminalising trafficking in the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2013....
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What rights do women in India in relationships akin to marriage have?
A recent Madras High Court judgement made headlines for suggesting that couples who have premarital sex can be considered to be married. Jayna Kothari puts the judgement in legal context and argues...
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What rights for the Queer Aadmi in India?
Sudheesh examines the Indian Supreme Court’s recent decision to recriminalise homosexuality, and draws attention to the distinction between ‘constitutional morality’ and ‘public morality’ made by the...
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Women’s experiences of local justice: Community mediation in Sri Lanka
Ramani Jayasundere and Craig Valters analyse discrimination against women in Sri Lanka’s mediation boards and call for reforms to improve gender sensitivity. This post first appeared on the blog of the...
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The Amartya Sen Lecture 2015: Law, Economics and the Republic of Beliefs
Earlier this month, Kaushik Basu, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank and C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics at Cornell University, delivered...
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Book Review: Water Security in India: Hope, Despair, and the Challenges of...
For anybody interested in water security, its intricate links with other forms of security (like food), and the threats water stress poses to the South Asian region in general and India in particular,...
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Reviewing India’s Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act three years on
The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO Act) was enacted in 2012. Srishti Agnihotri and Minakshi Das offer a three pronged analysis of the progress of the POCSO Act so far from the...
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Rehabilitation not retribution should be the focus of juvenile justice
Srishti Agnihotri and Minakshi Das discuss the tendency to effect legal reform as a response to a singular, highly emotive event. The gang rape of a 23-year old student on 16 December 2012 not only...
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“No More Worlds Here for Him to Conquer”– BR Ambedkar at LSE
Dr BR Ambedkar, principal architect of the Constitution of India and the first post-colonial Minister of Law and Justice, spent several years at LSE earning his second Masters Degree and Doctorate. One...
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The Punjab Women’s Protection Act: An ideological battle
The Punjab Protection of Women Against Violence Act, which came into force in February this year, marks a progressive shift in domestic violence legislation, but it has also prompted a backlash from...
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