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I have to start by addressing just how much this class has changed my life. It changed the way I see, feel and connect with the world and has opened my eyes to the absolute strength women possess. When we started this class, we got to pick out a “meme” that spoke to us, I chose “The gift of good literature is that it begins difficult conversations.". Little did I know just how relevant and crucial that quote would be throughout the entire class. Every story we heard, whether TedTalks, articles or the novels, there were themes, questions and realizations that arose. For this Tumblr I chose quotes and/or images that truly spoke to me throughout the class and pushed me to do more research outside of the class. As one can see my "logo” is the quote “Women belong in all places that decisions are being made” this spoke to me after watching and annotating “Tales of Passion: Isabel Allende”. Her story brought up some of the most heart-breaking stories I have ever heard. Stories, that make you feel helpless and small, yet the story was about strength and passion and making sure women had a voice, especially in places of power. “I think that the time is ripe to make fundamental changed in our civilization. But for real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men”. These words left me feeling empowered for the future. Isabel did a wonderful job not only speaking on the fact the women need to be in power positions, but that men also need to have their feminine energy nurtured. This spoke to me as today there are old white men who are judges or politicians who believe that a women’s body and rights are up for debate. When you look at large political groups, they have one large thing in common, most are older white men. This means that laws and important decisions are being made through the need and wants of themselves. Women, especially women of color need to have a voice in place where decisions are being made. Going off that, my next post is a woman holding up a sign that says “why does every woman know another women that was raped but no man knows a rapist?”. Now, this made me think about how women are viewed when they do report violence. I came upon a article “Courts Misogynistic Rules For Rape Survivors” this is about how judges in India continue to this day, to have extreme bias or stereotypes about “rape culture”. Mrinal Satish who is a professor at the National Law University stated, “Rape stereotypes continue, and not just amongst judges but amongst lawyers and students too”. The idea that a woman who has been raped has “lost her most cherished position aka her dignity, honor, reputation and chastity, is blatant bullcrap. This, as well as judges continuing to fall back on how a woman who has been raped, SHOULD behave is misogyny at its finest. Rape law is rooted in it. “You don’t blame a murder victim for provoking her murder. You look at evidence. Why is it so hard to do that for rape victims?”. I then of course started researching many other countries and how Rape Law is conducted, and as I guessed, many are rooted is misogyny. In the US, a 16-year-old boy raped a 16 year old girl at a party, he filmed the entire thing and then decided to share it to his friends with the text “when your first time having sex was rape”. Judge James Troiano said “this man comes from a good family who put him into an excellent school, his scores for college entry were very high, the pressing charges would destroy his life”. What a pity, let’s take a moment of silence for the poor rapist who filmed himself raping a girl and then sent it around. The reason I am bringing this up is because when I read the Tumblr post, I kept thinking about how many male judges, male friends of rapists continue to enable this behavior. If a powerful judge tells men you’re a good boy and gives them a slap on the wrist, what is going to stop them in the future. Men and women need to be on the same side when it comes to rape culture, the side of  “its unexpectable and there will be consequences”. We allow to continue what we don’t change. Women’s voices are important, but if men don’t use their power and voice to help, we continue down a path where women stay oppressed. When reading Under Western Eyes: by Chandra Talpade Mohanty I found myself drawn to the paragraphs about violence against women. As someone who has gone through violence at the hands of a male, wanted to learn or try to understand the ideology behind it. I began to feel once reading, that creating the narrative that women are the “victim” aka powerless and the male the powerful creates a notion that men attack or hurt because they ARE more powerful. Now, violence against women is different in countries but that basis of it, is power. In countries where girls get their genitalia mutilated for the reason that women should not feel pleasure as their duty is to have sex, get pregnant and then raise the child. “this, in turn, leads her to claim that woman’s’ sexuality is controlled, as is her reproductive potential” (pg 66) After this reading I did some research and found that many “religion based” ideas like genitalia mutilation are just continued ways to keep women down, and the weirdest part to me is how many men continue to do so. My personal opinion on this topic is that a lot of people (men especially) like to use “religion” as an excuse to continue to “exert their power” on women. Religion and tradition have a lot in common, in the reading “radical women, embracing tradition” Kavita Ramdas speaks on how when she was a younger girl in India her aunt lost her husband, so her other family members came and ripped off all her jewelry, her colorful sari, and wiped her bindi of her head. Her father’s response being “there is nothing I can do. This is tradition.” I am all for traditions, mine really revolve around spending time with my family and doing charity, so I shouldn’t judge other traditions right? I found myself struggling with this because I respect other cultures, what I don’t respect is people doing things out of religion or tradition that damages or hurts someone. As Kavita says “Women don’t make those rules, but they define us and they define our opportunities and our chances.” What I enjoyed about this is she also speaks on her father’s inability to save his own sister from suffering due to the “rules”. I’ve never been so empowered then I am right now after this class, I want to travel and listen to stories and I want to document everything and be a leader of change. As we have heard many times throughout this class, stories have a magic about them, they let you into a perspective that you may have never seen or heard. Story telling allows those who might not have a voice in their own community, a voice in the public, one that inspires, or scares or just plain explains. We all have a perspective on life, due to the information we read, see feel and hear. I’ve learned that there is no gift greater than a story as it gives us a view we aren’t accustomed to and may change the way we previously thought or went about our lives. What I have learned, is that feminism is for EVERYONE. Feminism isn’t the idea that women are better than men or that women hate men, it’s that women and men should be equal and treated as such. I have learned that a story can change lives, and truly fight against oppression, but that without women in power and having a voice in decisions, change is hard to come by. Systematic oppression is a real thing, and during these times today, when people are far more open to the discussion, we have a duty to each other to speak up and to vote and to continue to support all women, globally. I have forever been changed by this class and I am beyond thankful for being able to listen to these stories and share my own thoughts.

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GNLU CLE | Open House Session on “Empirical Legal Methods in Criminal Law”

GNLU Centre for Law and Economics is organizing a guest lecture cum open house session on”EMPIRICAL LEGAL METHODS IN CRIMINAL LAW” by Prof. (Dr.) Mrinal Satish, Professor of Law, and Executive Director, Centre for Constitutional Law, Policy, and Governance on  Tuesday, March 19, 2019, at 3.30 pm. Prof. (Dr.) Mrinal Satish’s area of interest and specialization is criminal law. At NLUD, he teaches criminal law, including advanced courses to students of the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. He is also the Executive Director of the Centre for Constitutional Law, Policy and Governance. Mrinal’s research interests include sentencing, gender and the law, medical jurisprudence, empirical analysis of law, reproductive justice, excessive undertrial and pre-trial detention, and studying the impact of the criminal justice system in its interface with vulnerable and disempowered groups (Read more – click HERE )

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Back in 2013, the Criminal Law Amendment Act caused ripples for expanding the definition of rape. It added important new provisions to the sexual offences legislation: for example, it included non-peno-vaginal acts under the definition of rape, added more circumstances to the list of aggravated cases of rape, and made the police refusing to file an FIR about rape into an offence. You would think this is all good stuff we should have had long ago, right? Wrong.

 Like any other complex socially significant law, it triggered criticism and constructive debates, like the ever-puzzling question of why marital rape still isn’t viewed as a crime in India. The law has faced some non-constructive reactions too. In its simplest form, the backlash sounds like this: some woman will accuse me of rape and I, an innocent man, will be jailed.

 On March 17th, former Union Cabinet Minister of Law and Justice and Senior Adv. Kapil Sibal gave this patriarchal panic attack—probably best ignored in a country where rape is under-reported and rapists rarely convicted—an honourable place in the world. He filed a writ petition in the Delhi High Court on behalf of the academic Madhu Kishwar, along with two other petitioners. The petition challenged the 2013 amendments to the rape law (Sibal was, however, one of the cabinet ministers to have overseen the anti-rape law draft). The reason? Concerns about the ‘growing incidents of misuse and abuse’ of the ‘draconian’ and ‘pro-women’ rape law.

 The petition puts forward a pretty skewed representation of the anti-rape law, by projecting the idea that rape cases are easy to win, when, in fact, rape convictions were at a five-year low last year. It also cites the patriarchal panic attack’s worst fear: the 2006 Supreme Court’s declaration that the sole testimony of a victim is sufficient for conviction, but doesn’t mention that this holds only if there are other things that corroborate her testimony. (The Supreme Court’s take on sole testimony conceded that rape most often occurs in private spaces, so, logically, there won’t usually be eyewitness accounts or for that matter, direct evidence such as recovered weapons, as in murder cases.) The petition’s most amazing move, though, was to conflate acquittals with false rape cases—the (implicit) assumption being that if the accused wasn’t convicted, the victim must have made up the story. Imagine this assumption being extended to any other part of criminal law and not being greeted with howls of contempt.

 The petition has marvelously vague descriptions of the way women apparently misuse the law: “’Crying rape’ is commoner than it used to be.” This gives it the rare advantage of a legal document sounding like uncles discussing the state of the world on WhatsApp. The petition also labels the classification of rape that is non peno-vaginal intercourse as ‘irrational, unreasonable, and unfair’, because there isn’t any chance of medical corroboration, even though the Supreme Court, for some time now, has been saying that medical corroboration isn’t required for rape cases.

 This next bit shouldn’t surprise any reader, maintaining as it does perfect integrity with the worldview that made this petition, but again, remember it’s in a writ petition made by a former Union Law Minister, and a CSDS professor. It lashes out at “irresponsible” women’s rights activists, who’ve “lent almost fascist connotations to feminism, with terms like ‘Feminazi’ coming into currency”. Kishwar may have misplaced nostalgia for the good old days of feminism, but mostly this bit just makes you wonder what makes her take American gaalis so seriously—we have our own.

Then confirming Kishwar and Sibal’s worst fears about irresponsible feminists, activist Kavita Krishnan exposed something that they would rather have kept quiet about. In a Facebook post titled ‘Misogyny Makes Progressive Masks Slip, Forges Strange Partnerships’, she pointed out that Sibal is also the defence in the Mahmood Farooqui rape case. So what? Read on. In June 2015, Farooqui, a well-known filmmaker, was accused by an American researcher of forcing her to have oral sex with him in his house. During the trial last year, the defence had denied the fact that there had been any physical intimacy between Farooqui and the prosecutrix, and said no kisses or forced oral sex had taken place. In the end, the court sentenced Farooqui to seven years in August 2016. But two months ago, during the appeal of Farooqui’s conviction in January 2017, the defence put forward the view (through oral arguments, not written ones) that, in fact, Farooqui had been in a relationship with the prosecutrix since January 2015: “In a relationship when people are attracted to each other, things do happen. But it does not mean it is rape.” That’s a pretty impressive change, all the way from Hum Aapke Hain Kaun to Tere Mere Beech Mein Kaisa Hai Ye Bandhan Anjaana.

 The latest twist: On March 23rd, Sibal (according to official documents in possession of The Ladies Finger) requested that the sentence on Farooqui be suspended for the time being. The logic being that Kishwar’s PIL, which challenges the constitutional validity of some provisions of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 2013, would have a direct bearing on the case. In the meantime, he sought bail for Farooqui. The court will hear both the bail application and the plea (about the appeal being decided after the PIL is decided) on May 4th.

 Krishnan asks sharp questions of this legal turnaround in her Facebook post: “… if the evidence exonerating Farooqui is so powerful and compelling, is his defence shy of allowing the appeal to proceed? Why introduce a wild new theory suggesting that the alleged rape was a consensual occurrence in the context of a ‘relationship’—and then hide behind a challenge to the constitutional validity of the rape law itself?”

 In an interview with The Ladies Finger, Krishnan explained her stance. “I am willing to review any law, and in the aftermath of the December 2012 case, our [myself, lawyers like Vrinda Grover, and others] concern was to make sure the changes in the rape law were consistently democratic and in accordance with human rights values. Which is why, amongst other things, we suggested that the Verma Committee shouldn’t recommend the death penalty, or that juveniles shouldn’t be tried in adult courts,” Krishnan said. “But claiming that a law is draconian on the basis that there are a large number of acquittals which does not add up, and [Kishwar’s] petition which implies that a woman should be assumed to be lying until proven otherwise; it is evident that Sibal has a blatant conflict of interest—he is filing a public interest petition on behalf of Kishwar, while also representing a rape-accused individual whom the clause in the petition affects, and furthermore, is using the petition in his appeal. Is it not dishonest to project the private interests of men accused of or convicted or rape, as public interest?,” she continued.

 Some questions raised by Kishwar’s petition could definitely do with addressing, such as that of sentencing, and whether the minimum mandatory sentence of seven years is too severe. But a debate about the length of the sentences for rape cannot be conducted in isolation, but instead within a larger context of the sentences for other crimes like assault (some courts have awarded up to five years for [non-sexual, man vs. man] assault in cases where a little finger is fractured). Studies such as lawyer and academic Mrinal Satish’s extensive investigation of the ‘sub-minimum’ sentence in his book Discretion, Discrimination, and the Rule of Law have also identified that the sub-minimum sentence was often misused, and affected by the prejudices of the court rather than legitimate mitigating factors. So often things like the past sexual history of the woman (whether she’d been sexually active before the rape), and the victim knowing the accused before the rape, led to lighter sentences.

 Ultimately, Sibal’s obvious conflict of interest, and use of a public interest petition with glaring inaccuracies to make headway on another case, just go to show how murky the legal system can be when it comes to issues of sexual violence. To echo the headline of Krishnan’s FB post, ‘progressive’ is a mask people lose when faced with the slimmest chance of loss of power. And in the meantime, feminist jurisprudence and women’s rights have been put on the line with this demand for a dilution in rape laws, which risks undoing all the work of the activists who fought for a broader definition of rape.

  An earlier version of this piece incorrectly reflected some of the changes brought in by the 2013 Criminal Law Amendment Act. This has been corrected.

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Dr. Mrinal Satish

Dr. Mrinal Satish is an Associate Professor of Law at NLU Delhi. His area of interest and specialization is criminal law and administration. He holds a doctorate in law from Yale Law School, for which he wrote a dissertation titled “Discretion, Discrimination, and the Rule of Law: Reforming Rape Sentencing in India.”, it examines the need and feasibility of introducing sentencing guidelines in India, using rape sentencing as a case study. Mrinal is a graduate of Yale Law School and the National Law School of India University, Bangalore (NLSIU). He obtained a B.A., LL.B (Hons.) degree from NLSIU in 2001, and was also awarded a gold medal. In 2002, he was awarded the Mahatma Gandhi National Law Teaching Fellowship at NLSIU. Mrinal is currently researching on issues pertaining to the death penalty. Within this framework, he is examining the issue of access to justice, and ineffective assistance of counsel. He is also interested in issues relating to gender and the law, and medical jurisprudence in its interface with rape law.

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🤝 OrthoTV Team: Dr Ashok Shyam, Dr Neeraj Bijlani

📺 Streaming Live on OrthoTV www.orthotvonline.com

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[orthotv]

🔰BRITISH HIP SOCIETY GLOBAL REACH!

🔆 Total Hip Arthroplasty in Ankylosing Spondylitis

🗓️Date & Time : Saturday 22nd July 2023 , 19:30-20:30PM (IST)

💻Click Here to Register: https://bit.ly/OrthoTV-BHS-15

🗣️ Speakers

Dr Rajeev Sharma Dr Vijay Bose Dr Adarsh Annapareddy

*🔆Moderators *

Dr Satish Kutty Dr Mrinal Sharma

👨‍⚕️ Panelists

Dr Dominic Meek Dr Ronen Roy

🔆Programme

🔸THR in ankylosing spondylitis: the conventional way - Dr Rajeev Sharma

🔹THR in ankylosing spondylitis considering spinopelvic parameters -Dr Vijay Bose

🔸THR in ankylosing spondylitis using robotics and spinopelvic parameters -Dr Adarsh Annapareddy

▪️Dominic Meek BHS President

▪️Satish Kutty BHS Education Chair

🤝 OrthoTV Team: Dr Ashok Shyam, Dr Neeraj Bijlani

📺 Streaming Live on OrthoTV www.orthotvonline.com

👨‍💻 Join OrthoTV - https://linktr.ee/OrthoTV

[orthotv]

🔰BRITISH HIP SOCIETY GLOBAL REACH!

🔆 Total Hip Arthroplasty in Ankylosing Spondylitis

🗓️Date & Time : Saturday 22nd July 2023 , 19:30-20:30PM (IST)

💻Click Here to Register: https://bit.ly/OrthoTV-BHS-15

🗣️ Speakers

Dr Rajeev Sharma Dr Vijay Bose Dr Adarsh Annapareddy

*🔆Moderators *

Dr Satish Kutty Dr Mrinal Sharma

👨‍⚕️ Panelists

Dr Dominic Meek Dr Ronen Roy

🔆Programme

🔸THR in ankylosing spondylitis: the conventional way - Dr Rajeev Sharma

🔹THR in ankylosing spondylitis considering spinopelvic parameters -Dr Vijay Bose

🔸THR in ankylosing spondylitis using robotics and spinopelvic parameters -Dr Adarsh Annapareddy

▪️Dominic Meek BHS President

▪️Satish Kutty BHS Education Chair

🤝 OrthoTV Team: Dr Ashok Shyam, Dr Neeraj Bijlani

📺 Streaming Live on OrthoTV www.orthotvonline.com

👨‍💻 Join OrthoTV - https://linktr.ee/OrthoTV

BHSGlobalReach

HipArthroplasty

AnkylosingSpondylitis

OrthopedicsWebinar

MedicalConference

OrthoEducation

SpinopelvicParameters

RoboticSurgery

OrthoTV

OrthopedicExperts

HipReplacement

OrthopedicSurgeons

MedicalWebinar

BoneHealth

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[globalwomenslit]

“You don’t blame a murder victim for provoking her murder. You look at evidence. Why is it so hard to do that for rape victims?”-Mrinal Satish

This speaks on “rape culture” and how women who are raped, continue to be blamed. Some of the many things said by judges in these cases “what were you wearing”, “what were you drinking”, “you have the power to push him off of you” , “why didn't you scream?”. Many of women fear going public about assault or violence because of this, i cant imagine how many women have been attacked and to this day, have kept it close to their heart because of fear.  I continue to believe that laws continue to protect men, and women are left vulnerable to the laws. 

[globalwomenslit]

I have to start by addressing just how much this class has changed my life. It changed the way I see, feel and connect with the world and has opened my eyes to the absolute strength women possess. When we started this class, we got to pick out a “meme” that spoke to us, I chose “The gift of good literature is that it begins difficult conversations.". Little did I know just how relevant and crucial that quote would be throughout the entire class. Every story we heard, whether TedTalks, articles or the novels, there were themes, questions and realizations that arose. For this Tumblr I chose quotes and/or images that truly spoke to me throughout the class and pushed me to do more research outside of the class. As one can see my "logo” is the quote “Women belong in all places that decisions are being made” this spoke to me after watching and annotating “Tales of Passion: Isabel Allende”. Her story brought up some of the most heart-breaking stories I have ever heard. Stories, that make you feel helpless and small, yet the story was about strength and passion and making sure women had a voice, especially in places of power. “I think that the time is ripe to make fundamental changed in our civilization. But for real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men”. These words left me feeling empowered for the future. Isabel did a wonderful job not only speaking on the fact the women need to be in power positions, but that men also need to have their feminine energy nurtured. This spoke to me as today there are old white men who are judges or politicians who believe that a women’s body and rights are up for debate. When you look at large political groups, they have one large thing in common, most are older white men. This means that laws and important decisions are being made through the need and wants of themselves. Women, especially women of color need to have a voice in place where decisions are being made. Going off that, my next post is a woman holding up a sign that says “why does every woman know another women that was raped but no man knows a rapist?”. Now, this made me think about how women are viewed when they do report violence. I came upon a article “Courts Misogynistic Rules For Rape Survivors” this is about how judges in India continue to this day, to have extreme bias or stereotypes about “rape culture”. Mrinal Satish who is a professor at the National Law University stated, “Rape stereotypes continue, and not just amongst judges but amongst lawyers and students too”. The idea that a woman who has been raped has “lost her most cherished position aka her dignity, honor, reputation and chastity, is blatant bullcrap. This, as well as judges continuing to fall back on how a woman who has been raped, SHOULD behave is misogyny at its finest. Rape law is rooted in it. “You don’t blame a murder victim for provoking her murder. You look at evidence. Why is it so hard to do that for rape victims?”. I then of course started researching many other countries and how Rape Law is conducted, and as I guessed, many are rooted is misogyny. In the US, a 16-year-old boy raped a 16 year old girl at a party, he filmed the entire thing and then decided to share it to his friends with the text “when your first time having sex was rape”. Judge James Troiano said “this man comes from a good family who put him into an excellent school, his scores for college entry were very high, the pressing charges would destroy his life”. What a pity, let’s take a moment of silence for the poor rapist who filmed himself raping a girl and then sent it around. The reason I am bringing this up is because when I read the Tumblr post, I kept thinking about how many male judges, male friends of rapists continue to enable this behavior. If a powerful judge tells men you’re a good boy and gives them a slap on the wrist, what is going to stop them in the future. Men and women need to be on the same side when it comes to rape culture, the side of  “its unexpectable and there will be consequences”. We allow to continue what we don’t change. Women’s voices are important, but if men don’t use their power and voice to help, we continue down a path where women stay oppressed. When reading Under Western Eyes: by Chandra Talpade Mohanty I found myself drawn to the paragraphs about violence against women. As someone who has gone through violence at the hands of a male, wanted to learn or try to understand the ideology behind it. I began to feel once reading, that creating the narrative that women are the “victim” aka powerless and the male the powerful creates a notion that men attack or hurt because they ARE more powerful. Now, violence against women is different in countries but that basis of it, is power. In countries where girls get their genitalia mutilated for the reason that women should not feel pleasure as their duty is to have sex, get pregnant and then raise the child. “this, in turn, leads her to claim that woman’s’ sexuality is controlled, as is her reproductive potential” (pg 66) After this reading I did some research and found that many “religion based” ideas like genitalia mutilation are just continued ways to keep women down, and the weirdest part to me is how many men continue to do so. My personal opinion on this topic is that a lot of people (men especially) like to use “religion” as an excuse to continue to “exert their power” on women. Religion and tradition have a lot in common, in the reading “radical women, embracing tradition” Kavita Ramdas speaks on how when she was a younger girl in India her aunt lost her husband, so her other family members came and ripped off all her jewelry, her colorful sari, and wiped her bindi of her head. Her father’s response being “there is nothing I can do. This is tradition.” I am all for traditions, mine really revolve around spending time with my family and doing charity, so I shouldn’t judge other traditions right? I found myself struggling with this because I respect other cultures, what I don’t respect is people doing things out of religion or tradition that damages or hurts someone. As Kavita says “Women don’t make those rules, but they define us and they define our opportunities and our chances.” What I enjoyed about this is she also speaks on her father’s inability to save his own sister from suffering due to the “rules”. I’ve never been so empowered then I am right now after this class, I want to travel and listen to stories and I want to document everything and be a leader of change. As we have heard many times throughout this class, stories have a magic about them, they let you into a perspective that you may have never seen or heard. Story telling allows those who might not have a voice in their own community, a voice in the public, one that inspires, or scares or just plain explains. We all have a perspective on life, due to the information we read, see feel and hear. I’ve learned that there is no gift greater than a story as it gives us a view we aren’t accustomed to and may change the way we previously thought or went about our lives. What I have learned, is that feminism is for EVERYONE. Feminism isn’t the idea that women are better than men or that women hate men, it’s that women and men should be equal and treated as such. I have learned that a story can change lives, and truly fight against oppression, but that without women in power and having a voice in decisions, change is hard to come by. Systematic oppression is a real thing, and during these times today, when people are far more open to the discussion, we have a duty to each other to speak up and to vote and to continue to support all women, globally. I have forever been changed by this class and I am beyond thankful for being able to listen to these stories and share my own thoughts.

Marguerite Avery McGettigan “Reflection”

[postolo]

GNLU | Open Session on Empirical Legal Methods in Criminal Law

The GNLU Centre for Law and Economics is going to organize an Open Session on “Empirical Legal Methods in Criminal Law” on 19th March 2019 at Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar.

The resource person for the session is Prof. (Dr.) Mrinal Satish, Professor of Law, National Law University, Delhi.

The session will start at 3.30 PM. The said session is for one and half hour.

About the Resource Person

Prof. (Dr.) Mrinal Satish’s area of interest and specialization is criminal law. At NLUD, he teaches criminal law, including advanced courses to students of the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. He is also the Executive Director of the Centre for Constitutional Law, Policy and Governance. Sir’s research interests include sentencing, gender and the law, medical jurisprudence, empirical analysis of law, reproductive justice, excessive under-trial and pre-trial detention, and studying the impact of the criminal justice system in its interface with vulnerable and dis-empowered groups

Registration

There is no fee for attending this event.

To register, Click HERE 

Contact 

For any query contact Ms. Shaily Trivedi at strivedi@gnlu.ac.in.

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[postolo]

1st NSLR Symposium on Law and Public Health at NALSAR University of Law

NALSAR Student Law Review will be hosting its inaugural symposium on the theme of ‘Law and Public Health’ at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad on the 16th-17th of February, 2019. The interdisciplinary symposium will bring together experts and practitioners from diverse backgrounds, including senior government officials, policy analysts, academicians, researchers, and medical professionals. We would be grateful if you could share information on the same on your platforms. Here are the details of the event:

Background

Law plays an important role in shaping society, enabling us to articulate rights and realise societal aspirations. Public health focuses on the health, safety and well-being of a population, striving to provide the maximum benefit for the largest number of people through interdisciplinary engagement to evolve solutions. Public health considers a wide view of health, going beyond physical health to include issues ranging from mental health and violence to health inequity and universal access to health coverage. Government proposals in the past have been inadequate in addressing the dynamic factors behind poor health. In the context of law’s role in improving access to healthcare, there has been a growing movement to see the right to health as a fundamental right in the developing world, ensuring that the government prioritises actualising universal health care. While the National Health Policy 2017 falls short of recognising health as a fundamental right, it advocates a progressive, assurance-based approach to universal health coverage.

The 1st NSLR Symposium hopes to improve the visibility and effectiveness of law as a tool to protect and promote public health in India from a human rights perspective. To this end, the symposium encourages individuals from law, medicine, public policy, development studies and other disciplines to engage with law and public health, with an emphasis on looking for ways to bridge the gap between research and policy.

Sessions and Speakers

There are four panel discussion and two special lectures spread over two days. The following is a list of the tentative speakers for the respective sessions.

Panel Discussion I – Law, Gender and Public Health:  Evolving a Legal Framework to Confront Gender-Based Violence from a Health Systems Perspective

Amita Pitre, a senior consultant with expertise in gender justice and public health.

Dipika Jain, Associate Professor, Associate Dean (Academic Affairs) and the Executive Director of the Centre for Health Law, Ethics and Technology at Jindal Global Law School, India.

Mrinal Satish, Professor and Executive Director of the Centre for Constitutional Law, Policy, and Governance at National Law University, Delhi.

Sreeparna Chattopadhyay, Senior Research Scientist and Associate Professor at the Ramalingaswami Centre on Equity and Social Determinants of Health.

Vyjanti Vasanta Mogli, transgender activist and founding member of the Telangana Hijra Transgender Samiti.

Panel Discussion II –  Law, Technology and Public Health: The Privacy Implications of the Storage and Use of Electronic Health Records

For more details, refer 1st NSLR Symposium on Law and Public Health – Concept Note

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[legalseat]

Indian Law Review: First Issue Availability and Reduced Subscription Price

We are delighted to announce that the first issue of Volume 1 of the Indian Law Review is now available for free download on our website (for a limited period). The issue contains many manifestos expressing the hopes and expectations of our potential readership. It also includes contributions from Krithika Ashok, Lawrence Liang, Mrinal Satish, Adam Perry, Shraddha Kulhari,...

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Indian Law Review: First Issue Availability and Reduced Subscription Price

We are delighted to announce that the first issue of Volume 1 of the Indian Law Review is now available for free download on our website (for a limited period). The issue contains many manifestos expressing the hopes and expectations of our potential readership. It also includes contributions from Krithika Ashok, Lawrence Liang, Mrinal Satish, Adam Perry, Shraddha Kulhari,...

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