Academic work at the University is a continuous ongoing process outside the classroom. Every Wednesday, an NLS Faculty Seminar is convened to spotlight cutting-edge academic research within the NLS community. This provides an opportunity for faculty members, researchers, and others within our broader network to discuss their ongoing and recent papers with the faculty and research scholars at the University.
Below is a list of faculty seminars at NLS.
Presentations:
1. “Reconstructing Cheraman: Communal Harmony as Politics of Belonging in Contemporary Kerala” by Dr. Dayal Paleri.
2. “Who Dares Wins? Framework for Environmental Justice Movements: Empirical Review of Biodiversity Conservation Related Movements” by Dr. Sneha Thapliyal.
April 23, 2025
Presentations:
1. “Instrumentalising the University: The Principles underlying Higher Education Regulation at India’s Founding” by Siddharth Saxena.
2. “Policing Per Se” by Radhika Chitkara.
April 16, 2025
“Three Genres of India at the Limit: The Obsolete, The Ruinous, The Unfinished” | Dr. Atreyee Majumder, NLSIU and Kundan Sen, Ashoka University
April 9, 2025
“Religion, Culture, and Human Rights in India: With God as our Witness” | Dr. Surabhi Shukla from the University of Sheffield
April 2, 2025
“Accommodating Disability ‘Reasonably’: The Indian Supreme Court and the Shifting Contours of ‘Reasonable Accommodation’ Under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016” | Ishita Ghosh
March 26, 2025
“Where is the Historian in Public History?: An Informal Essay” | Dr. Samyak Ghosh
March 19, 2025, 3:45 pm
“Bench Constitutions And Case Assignments in the Supreme Court of India”| By Pranav Verma
March 12, 2025, 3:45 pm
“Balancing Power and Accountability: An evaluation of SEBI’s Adjudication of Insider Trading”| By Bhavin Patel from TrustBridge
March 5, 2025, 3:45 pm
“The Devaluation of Domestic Work: Regulatory Reform and Challenges to the Perception of a ‘Family-Like’ Relationship”| By Dr. Natalie Sedacca of Durham University
January 22, 2025, 2:30 pm
“Muslim Law and Legal Pluralism: Intersections of State and Community in Matrimonial Dispute Resolution among Muslims in Kerala”| By Noor Ameena
January 8, 2025, 4:15 pm
Presentations:
1. “Juridical Engagement with Electoral Reservations in India” by Sidharth Chauhan.
2. “Evaluating the Role of Large Language Models in Legal Practice in India: Performance, Challenges, and Practical Guidelines” by Dr. Rahul Hemrajani.
January 1, 2025, 3:45 pm
“Horizontality and Hohfeld: Locating the Right to Freedom of Expression in the Analytical Framework”| By Keertana Venkatesh
Dec 18, 2024, 3:45 pm
“Challenges of ChatGPT for higher education and policy responses in Asia: Investigating the first year of ChatGPT” | Dr. Devyani Pande presents the paper she co-authored with Dr. Panchali Guha, Postdoctoral Fellow at Singapore Management University (SMU)
Nov 27, 2024, 4 pm
Presentations:
1. “The Indian Pharmacopoeia: Crafting A ‘Sovereign Function Exception’ Under Indian Copyright Law” by Aparajita Lath.
2. “The Promise of Substantive Equality? Transplanting the Indirect Discrimination Test into India” by Jai Brunner.
Nov 20, 2024, 2:45 pm
“Towards a Pluralistic and Engaged Legal Education: Insights from UVic Law” | By Guest Speaker Prof. Andrew Newcombe from the University of Victoria, Canada
Nov 13, 2024, 2:30 pm
“The Foral of 1526 and the Politics of Land in Goa” | By Guest Speaker Dr. Rochelle Pinto from Azim Premji University
Nov 6, 2024, 4:00 pm
Presentations:
1. “An Uneven Land: Territorialised Citizenship in India” by Darshana Mitra
2. “National Survey of Extra-Judicial Deaths: Draft Interim Report” by Pranav Verma and Amrashaa Singh
Sept 4, 2024, 4:00 pm
Presentations:
1. “Burdens of Proof and Standards of Conviction: The Mechanics of the Presumption of Innocence through Indian Evidence Law” by Kunal Ambasta
2. “Continuity without Cultivation? The Student, Writing Pedagogy, and the University in India” by Diya Deviah and Ammel Sharon
Aug 28, 2024
Disparagement vis-à-vis Social Media Influencers: Balancing Free Commercial Speech with Protecting Consumer Interest | By Apoorv Kumar Chaudhary
Aug 14, 2024
Make Live and Let the Land Question Die: Surplus Populations and the Welfare State | By Dr. Sudheesh R.C.
Aug 7, 2024
Presentations:
1. “Forty-Five Years of Public Interest Litigation in India: Its Changing Constituencies and the Rise of the Regulatory Court” by Pranav Verma
2. “Gandhi’s Law of Satyagraha” by Dr. Salmoli Choudhuri (NLSIU, India) and Dr. Moiz Tundawala (University of Oxford)
Jul 31, 2024
Presentations:
1. “Constitutions and the Rule of Law in Asia” by Prof. Arun K. Thiruvengadam
2. “An Empire of Artificial Intelligence: Exploring an Intersection of Politics, Society and Creativity” by Dr. Debangana Chatterjee
Jul 24, 2024
Hindu majoritarianism and the construction of “religion”
Jul 10, 2024
Discussants: Prof. Nivedita Menon and Dr. Sushmita Pati
Corporate Purpose and Financialization
May 22, 2024
Discussants: Neeraj Grover and Dr. Sudhanshu Kumar
Consistent Discrepancies: Citizenship and the Language of the Gauhati High Court
May 15, 2024
Discussants: Padmini Baruah and Darshana Mitra
Preventive Detention in Karnataka
May 8, 2024
Discussants: Prof. Mrinal Satish and Anushka Pandey
An Institutional Ethnography of Counter-Terrorism
April 24, 2024
Discussants: Radhika Chitkara and Dr. Atreyee Majumdar
From Colony to Sovereign: Understanding India’s Pre-Independence Legal Personality
April 17, 2024
Discussants: Dr. Akhila Basalalli and Prof. Kamala Sankaran
Evaluating the Implementation and Enforcement of India’s POSH Act through Surveying Individuals Across Sectors
April 10, 2024
Discussants: Alexandra (Zander) Blitzer and Prof. Saurabh Bhattacharjee
Sentencing as a Fair Trial Right
April 03, 2024
Discussants: Prof. Mrinal Satish and Kunal Ambasta
Protecting Journalism from National Security: the Aftermath of Madhyamam Broadcasting
March 27, 2024
Discussants: Manish and Radhika Chitkara
Considering the Soul and its Ways for the Practice of Anthropology
March 20, 2024
Discussants: Dr. Atreyee Majumder and Dr. Karthick Ram Manoharan
The inscription of DNA as a technology of truth in India
March 13, 2024
Discussants: Manpreet Singh Dhillon and Dr Sushmita Pati
Literature as Recovery: Text Criticism and the Kannada Public Sphere
January 17, 2024
Discussants: Ammel Sharon and Dr. Kena Wani
Exploring ‘humiliation’ in Section 3 (1) (r) of Prevention of Atrocities Act, 1989
January 10, 2024
Discussants: Dr. Ashna Singh and Dr. Karthikeyan D
Contextualizing Corrective Rape in an era of Transformative Constitutionalism in India
January 03, 2024
Discussants: Sharon Singh and Dr. Debangana Chatterjee
Lives of Circumcised and Veiled Women: A Global-Indian Interplay of Discourses and Narratives
December 27, 2023
Discussants: Dr. Debangana Chatterjee and Prof. Dhivya Janarthanan
Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts
December 20, 2023
Discussants: Dr. Mayur Suresh and Dr. Manpreet Dhillon
Fundamental Duties in Indian Constitutional History
December 13, 2023
Discussants: Prof. (Dr.) Sudhir Krishnaswamy and Prof. Pranav Verma
Economic Reservations: Ideal and Reality
December 6, 2023
Discussants: Dr. Bastian Steuwer and Prof. Arun Thiruvengadam
Customary International Law and Specially Affected States: A TWAIL Perspective
November 29, 2023
Discussants: Kiran Suryanarayana and Prof. Harisankar Sathyapalan
Antaja Kings in Mleccha Land: The Political Imagination of Jāti in an Early Eighteenth-Century Royal Court
November 22, 2023
Discussants: Dr. Samyak Ghosh and Dr. Chandrabhan Yadav
What is Western About Western thought ?
November 15, 2023
Discussants: Prof. Sudipta Kaviraj and Dr. Karthick Ram Manoharan
Informality at Work – Towards a Law on Livelihoods ?
November 8, 2023
Discussants: Dr. Kamala Sankaran and Dr. Sony Pellissery
The Dynamics of Doctor-patient Relationship in Elective Aesthetic Medicine
September 13, 2023
Discussants: Dr. Madhubanti Sadhya and Prof. Mrinal Satish
Populism and Caste in contemporary India: Socio-political pragmatisms of caste associations
September 6, 2023
Discussants: Dr. Aniket Nandan and Dr. Karthikeyan Damodaran
To have a country so important: on Law as a Sign for War
August 30, 2023
Discussants: Dr. Atreyee Majumder and Prof. Diya Deviah
The Search for a Link between Electoral Expenses, Regulation, and Corruption
August 23, 2023
Discussants: Prof. Jasmine Joseph and Prof. Sanjay Jain
Discussion on the India Justice Report
August 16, 2023
Discussants: Maja Daruwala, the Chief Editor, and Valay Singh, the project lead of IJR (India Justice Report).
Bail on Medical Grounds in India: A Search for Principled Jurisprudence
August 09, 2023
Discussants: Prof. Nanditta Batra and Dr. A. Nagarathna.
Tax Avoidance in Indian Tax Treaties: The Past, the Present and the Future
August 02, 2023
Discussants: DR. Nigam Nuggehalli
Deconstructing the Universal of Consent
July 26, 2023
Discussants: Ishika Saxena and Dr. Rinku Lamba
Status of Women in the Karnataka State Police
July 20, 2023
Discussants: Devyani Srivastava
Reflections on Rabindranath Tagore’s Religion of Man
July 12, 2023
Discussants: Prof. (Dr.) Rinku Lamba
Making India an Arbitration Hub: Does India Need a Separate Law for International Arbitration
May 24, 2023
Discussants: Sahana Ramesh and Sharada Shindhe
Dr. Arul George Scaria’s Report for the Delhi High Court.
May 17, 2023
Speaker: Dr. Arul Scaria
Right to occupy Airspace – Conflict between Airports and Landowners on the use of vertical space in India
April 19, 2023
Speaker: Dr. Betsy Rajasingh
“When will the dawn of divorce arrive?”: An Itinerary of Pre-Legal Ideas about Divorce in Stree Magazine, 1930-1955″
March 15, 2023
Speaker: Prof. (Dr.) Ashwini Tambe
Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality.
March 8, 2023
Speaker: Dr. Sebanti Chatterjee
Marxism and Postcolonialism: A Reparative Reading through Walter Benjamin’s Historical Materialism.
January 18, 2023
Discussants: Atreyee Majumder and Ishika Saxena
Discussion on the Paper “An Exceptionally Special Law: Constraints Over Emergency Powers under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.”
December 21, 2022
Discussants: Radhika Chitkara and Prof. Arun Thiruvengadam
Coining Legitimacy: Law and Technology in India
November 23, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Sukhalata Sen, Moderator: Dr. Mrinal Satish
Dr. Nikhil Menon on his Book: “Planning Democracy: Modern India’s Quest for Development”
November 16, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Nikhil Menon, Assistant Professor of History, University of Notre Dame
Grand Narratives of Transition and the Quest for Democratic Constitutionalism in India and South Africa
November 9, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Theunis Roux, Professor, University of New South Wales (Faculty of Law), Sydney.
Collaborating in Times of Crisis: Challenges and Strategies of International Research
November 7, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Victor V. Ramraj, Professor, University of Victoria (Faculty of Law), British Columbia
The Southern Turn Towards World Comparative Law
November 2, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Philipp Dann, Professor, Humboldt University (Faculty of Law), Berlin
Reposing ‘Faith’ in Gender Equality: Mapping the Consequences of the Sabarimala case for Religious Freedom and Gender Equality in India
July 20, 2022
Speaker: Megha Mehta, Visiting Assistant Professor, NLSIU
Co-producing India’s National DNA Data Bank: Bio-legality and the Question of Privacy
July 13, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Manpreet Singh Dhillon, Academic Fellow, NLSIU
A Life of Contradictions: Group Inequality and Socio-Economic Rights in the Indian Constitution
May 25, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Aparna Chandra, Associate Professor of Law, NLSIU
Hidden in Plain Sight- The Indian Evidence Act, 1872 as a Guide to Evidence Law Reform
May 18, 2022
Speaker: Kunal Ambasta, Assistant Professor of Law
Can we Really Devise Dispute Resolution Mechanisms Different from the Regular Procedures of Civil Trial Envisaged in the CPC? A Study of the Consumer Protection statutes
May 11, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Nanda Kishore, Visiting Faculty, NLSIU
The Evolution of the Right to Property in India: From a Law and Development Perspective
April 27, 2022
Speaker: Ms. Rashmi Venkatesan, Assistant Professor of Law, NLSIU
Reconsidering SEBI Disgorgement
March 30, 2022
Speakers:
- Renuka Sane, Associate Professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy
- S. Vivek, Research Fellow, Regulatory Governance Project, NLSIU
Climate-Change Induced Displacement and Rights-Based Protection: Need for a Sui Generis Convention
March 16, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Saurabh Bhattacharjee, Associate Professor of Law, NLSIU
Liberty After Freedom: A History of Article 21, Due Process and the Constitution of India
March 9, 2022
Speaker: Rohan J Alva, Counsel, Supreme Court of India
Open Courts and the Regulatory Framework for Judicial Data
January 27, 2022
Speakers: Aakanksha Mishra, Dual Qualified Attorney (India and New York) | Law and Policy | Masters in International Trade Law; and Siddharth Mandrekar Rao, DAKSH’S Research Associate
Knocking on the Doors: India’s Challenges in Accessing Legal Services
January 19, 2022
Speakers: Varsha Aithala, Doctoral Candidate, NLSIU; and Karthik Suresh, Candidate for the European Master in Law and Economics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Cartel Leniency Program in India – Why No Race Here?
December 22, 2021
Speaker: Prof. (Dr.) T.S. Somashekar, Professor of Economics, NLSIU
Mapping the Elements of an Ambedkarite Jurisprudence
December 15, 2021
Speaker: Arvind Narrain, Visiting Faculty, NLSIU
The Meld Model: The Holy Grail of Indian Corporate Jurisprudence
December 1, 2021
Speaker: Rahul Singh, Associate Professor of Law, NLSIU
Studying cyber crime awareness and victimisation among female students and IT professionals in Karnataka – An Overview of the Research Methodology
November 17, 2021
Speaker: Tasneem Deo, Visiting Faculty, NLSIU
Legal Barriers to Accessing Safe Abortion Services in India: A Fact-Finding Study
September 29, 2021
Speaker: Dr. Aparna Chandra, Associate Professor, NLSIU
Marking the Market : Municipalizing Calcutta’s Spaces of Exchange
September 8, 2021.
Speaker: Dr. Anwesha Ghosh, Assistant Professor, History, NLSIU
Designed for Abuse: Special Criminal Laws and Rights of the Accused
August 25, 2021
Speaker: Kunal Ambasta, Assistant Professor of Law, NLSIU
Revered ‘Routines’ in Medical Examination of Rape Accused
August 18, 2021
Speaker: Shreya Shree, Assistant Professor of Law, NLSIU
Introduction: Liberalism and Its Encounters in India
August 11, 2021
Speakers: Dr. Atreyee Majumder, Assistant Professor, Sociology, and Dr. R. Krishnaswamy
Rape adjudication in India in the aftermath of Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2013: Findings from trial courts of Delhi
APRIL 7, 2021
Speaker: Preeti Pratishruti Dash, Assistant Professor of Law, NLSIU
Religious Penal Clauses in Context: Country Studies in Common Law Asia
March 24, 2021
Speaker: Dr. Mrinal Satish, Professor of Law, NLSIU
All that Glitters…Recent Law Reforms and their Impact on Child Marriages
March 10, 2021
Speaker: Dr. Sarasu Esther Thomas, Registrar & Professor of Law, NLSIU
Whither Evidence (Act) based reasoning?: Towards an Effects-based Approach in Indian Competition Jurisprudence
January 20, 2021
Speaker: Rahul Singh, Associate Professor of Law, NLSIU
In the Shadows of the State: How Rent Shape Our Cities
January 6, 2021
Speaker: Dr. Sushmita Pati, Assistant Professor of Law, NLSIU
Cross-Border Data Access for Law Enforcement: What Are India’s Strategic Options?
December 2, 2020
Speaker: Smriti Parsheera, NLS ‘LLB 2006, is a researcher at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, and a Fellow with the CyberBRICS Project hosted by the FGV Law School, Brazil.
Why Not Nature Rights?
Jan 8, 2020
Speaker: Dr. Manjeri Subin, Assistant Professor (Ad-hoc), NLSIU
The Hocus Pocus of Corporate Purpose and the Visible Hand of the State – Insights from India’s CSR Experience
December 18, 2019
Speaker: Akshaya Kamalnath, Lecturer (Corporate Law), AUT Law School, Auckland
Competition Regulation in Two-Sided Markets: The Indian Experience
December 11, 2019
Speaker: Akash Krishnan, Teaching Associate (Economics), NLSIU
An Unclear Empiricism: A Review of the Death Penalty India Report
December 4, 2019
Speaker: Kunal Ambasta, Assistant Professor, NLSIU