SLR@20: Launch of the Socio-Legal Review’s Special 20th Anniversary Issue

The Socio-Legal Review (SLR) was first published in 2005 by a group of students at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU). Emerging from the broader “law and society” movement, SLR was founded on the growing realisation that law cannot be meaningfully understood in isolation from social and political realities.

In 2025, SLR marks twenty years of this bold and continuing experiment in student-led legal scholarship with the launch of its Special 20th Anniversary Issue, titled: “SLR@20: Reflections from India, South Asia, and Beyond.” This Special Issue critically reviews the state of socio-legal scholarship today—both evaluating past trends and setting future lines of inquiry—through five contributions that reflect on what “socio-legal” means today in India, South Asia, and beyond, across disciplines, geographies, and methodologies.

To commemorate this milestone, we invite you to join us for a launch event featuring a roundtable discussion with the authors who have contributed to this ambitious and agenda-setting issue, followed by an audience Q&A.

In attendance:

Elizabeth Lhost
Programme Manager, Modern Endangered Archives Program, University of California, Los Angeles Library, USA

Anup Surendranath & Maitreyi Misra
Professor of Law and Executive Director; Director, Death Penalty Mitigation and Director, Mental Health and Criminal Justice, The Square Circle Clinic, NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, India

Maryam S Khan
Research Fellow, Institute of Development & Economic Alternatives (IDEAS), Lahore, Pakistan

Sara Dezalay
Professor of International Law and International Relations, European School of Social and Political Sciences (ESPOL), Université Catholique de Lille, France

This event is open to all and will be held online. Registration is mandatory. We look forward to your participation in celebrating two decades of socio-legal inquiry and critical scholarship at SLR.