The Socio-Legal Review is delighted to announce the Third Annual SLR Workshop. Through this initiative, SLR hopes to further the understanding of its aims and scope, and more broadly the meaning of “socio-legal” scholarship. The workshop will also provide practical and useful guidance on how one may contribute to the SLR Journal or Forum, or socio-legal academic spaces in general.

SLR is a peer-reviewed, bi-annual journal that encourages interdisciplinary research at the intersection of law and social sciences. It is open-access and student-run, published by the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru.

About the Keynote Speaker

The keynote speaker for the workshop is Dr. Anindita Adhikari, Assistant Professor, Social Sciences at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. Her research interests include social movements, bureaucracies, the politics of welfare provisioning and democratic deepening. She has been associated with the Right to Work, Right to Information, and Right to Food campaigns. She has previously worked with the Government of Bihar and the Ministry of Rural Development on employment, social security, and land issues. She co-founded the  organization ‘Social Accountability Forum for Action and Research’ (SAFAR) in 2022 that works on strengthening transparency and accountability in public service delivery in collaboration with state and national governments and civil society. Her book project ‘from Shikayat to Jawaabdehi’ examines the effects of rights-based welfare expansion and its effects on local governance and civic action through a comparison between two institutionalized accountability systems in Bihar.

About the Workshop

The workshop will begin with a discussion on the scope of socio-legal scholarship generally, its role in the current moment and its place within the larger movement of legal scholarship in India. The keynote speaker will present some of her ongoing research and specifically address the audience on the question of positionality in doing socio-legal research. This will be followed by a discussion on a pre-circulated paper that closely relates to the discipline. Members of the SLR Editorial Board will discuss SLR’s Submission Guidelines and Editorial Policies. The session will be followed by a Q&A round.

The workshop is designed and intended for an audience of students across undergraduate, postgraduate and graduate levels as well as early career academics.

The Workshop is open-to-all, and will be taking place online on Microsoft Teams, from 11 AM – 12: 30 PM on Saturday, 10th January 2026. Please note that registration is mandatory, in order to attend. Please fill the form here to register.

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