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They Created a Nation explores the winding journey of the due process clause in Article 21 from Frankfurters warning to Justice Subba Raos act of resurrection and the judicial innovation it has enabled over 70 years.

Support for young first-generation lawyers, women and lawyers from Dalit, Adivasi and other socially oppressed sections is tied to an overall improvement in access to justice, influencing whose experiences find representation in the legal profession.

Last Friday, a US Federal Judge Nicholas Garauffis ordered the US Department of Justice, which is headed by the attorney general, to justify its decision to drop prosecution charges against Gautam Adani, Indias richest, and the worlds seventeenth wealthiest billionaire. This is a case that arises from a 2024 charge against Adani, and another company Azure, for bribing 2000 crore rupees to state government officials (mostly from Andhra Pradesh) to secure a contract to build a solar power plant. T

Speaking to The Leaflet, Vivek Mukherjee of NALSARs Animal Law Centre, which intervened in the Supreme Courts stray dogs case, analyses the judgments dual nature: its ability to diagnose the right problem, waste, and its inability to see how emptying out dogs from their territories resolves nothing.

In the June edition of Staying Alive, a survivor recounts how a lawyer told her the PWDVA offers no remedy without physical abuse, and why twenty years after the Act recognised emotional and economic violence, courts still treat a bruise as the only proof that counts.

A recent Delhi High Court ruling confirmed the sanctity of Long Stop Dates in M&A agreements. But it adds to a worrying trend of Indian courts expounding on private and contract law concepts through arbitration proceedings only.

Professor Amita Dhandas biography of Justice M.N. Rao traces his many careers and the judicial spine that held them together.

Following mass exclusions from the electoral rolls, the West Bengal government has made SIR inclusion mandatory for access to PDS benefits. Does linking citizenship to welfare and labour benefits have any statutory basis? And how can the judiciary intervene?

In its advisory opinion last month, the International Court of Justice augmented the right to strike to a core labour right under Convention 87. Its reliance on relevant rules of international law in the ruling is a positive step towards bringing international law under a more unified system.

The Supreme Courts Draft AI Regulations promise human primacy, transparency, and accountability. But a regulation is only as strong as the institution that must live by it. The harder question is whether Indias judiciary is institutionally ready to keep those promises.

The Supreme Courts AI Committee has released a draft regulatory framework for the use of artificial intelligence in Indian Courts that foregrounds human primacy, institutional accountability, and the irreducible role of the judge. Here is an in-depth account of what the Draft Regulations say, how they are structured, and why they matter.

Trans and disability rights movements confront common challenges when it comes to the Indian states unequal treatment of marginalised bodies in its nationalist project, the judiciarys liberal legalism, and the emphasis on a Swadeshi jurisprudence. Our Pride Month special explores the possibility of a solidarity of counter-politics.