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NLS faculty member Dr Sushmita Pati speaks on ‘Rent, Regulation and the Career of an Urban Village’ on July 27, 2021.  Tune into the online session being organised by The Centre for Policy Research (CPR) and Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH).

The session will be held via Zoom from 3:45 PM to 5:30 PM.

To register, please click here. The session will also be live-streamed on the CPR Facebook page.

About the Talk

In the world of finance capital, rent represents a ‘lack of risk’. Rent also represents strong ownership in the world of finance capital which effaces ownerships. This talk would draw from the larger question that the speaker is asking in her forthcoming manuscript titled ‘Properties of Rent’ – What is the role of rent in shaping our global cities? She delves into this through looking at Jat dominated urban villages of Delhi, which have evolved into an unregulated economy of rental properties, residential and commercial, organised and managed by a thick notion of community.

This talk focuses on the relationship of these urban villages with the state, which is largely mediated through the question of regulation. We have witnessed a gradually increasing attention of the state on these villages in the form of ‘regulation’, which is consistently resisted by the community. The speaker argues that regulation is not merely an impetus of a state’s project, but also that of capital. Villagers fear that the coming of the state, through its regulations, would also usher in capital, with its facelessness, which will not only loosen their economic hold, but also their own identity.

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About the Speaker

Sushmita Pati is an Assistant Professor (Political Science) at National Law School of India University, Bangalore. Her book ‘Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi’ is coming out soon from Cambridge University Press.

About the Workshop Series

This is the hundred and thirty-eighth in a series of Urban Workshops planned by the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), New Delhi and Centre for Policy Research (CPR). These workshops seek to provoke public discussion on issues relating to the development of the city and try to address all its facets including its administration, culture, economy, society and politics.

For further information, please contact: Rémi de Bercegol at , Olivier Telle of CSH at , Mukta Naik at or Marie-Hélène Zerah at . Find videos of previous workshops, here.

 

Welcome to CLAT 2021!

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is a national level entrance exam for admissions to undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) law programmes offered by 22 National Law Universities around the country. CLAT is organized by the Consortium of National Law Universities consisting of the representative universities.

General Instructions

• CLAT 2021 examination will be held on July 23, 2021 (2:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M). The duration of the test is two hours.
• Candidates shall be permitted to enter into the premises of the respective Test Centres by 1:30 P.M. and allowed to leave the Test Centre only after the test is over.
• Candidates shall not be permitted to enter into the examination hall after 2:15 P.M.

Candidates appearing for the examination are requested to go through the CLAT 2021 instructions to candidates.

Instructions to candidates writing at NLSIU

• Candidates must enter the NLSIU campus through Gate 1.
• Parking facility for vehicles is available in the football ground.
  Entry for vehicles at Gate 3  & 4.
  Exit for vehicles at Gate 4.
• Candidates must show their Hall Ticket /Admit Card to enter the Test Centre.
  To download your Admit Card, click here.
• Candidate’s temperature will be checked at Gate 1.
• Candidate’s Admit card and Photo ID proof will be verified at the verification desk.
• There will be separate queues for UG & PG candidates. Candidates are requested to follow the queue and the markings outside the gate.
• Candidates must wear a mask and maintain social distance between each other.

How to get to NLSIU?

If you need help in reaching our campus, please click here.

Karnataka Test Centres & Seating

To know the seating arrangement according to your Roll Number, please refer to the links of the Seating Chart provided for each of the test centres.

Sl.No	City	Test Centre	Seating Arrangements
1	Bengaluru	National Law School of India University, Gnana Bharathi Main Rd, Opp NAAC, Teachers Colony, Naagarabhaavi	View Seating Chart
2	Bengaluru	Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Technology, BDA Outer Ring Road, Malathahalli, Near Jnana Bharathi campus	View Seating Chart
3	Bengaluru	St. Joseph’s Evening College, 35 Museum Road	View Seating Chart
4	Mysuru	Maharaja’s College, University of Mysore, JLB Road	View Seating Chart
5	Mangaluru	Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Law College Centre for Post Graduate Studies & Research in Law, M.G. Road Kodialbail	View Seating Chart
6	Hubli / Dharwad	Karnataka State Law University,  Hubballi (KSLU), Navanagar	View Seating Chart

For other details on CLAT, please visit https://consortiumofnlus.ac.in/

The NLS Public Lecture Series invites you to a talk on “Gender and the “Faith” in Law: Equality, Secularism, and the Rise of the Hindu Nation” by Prof. Ratna Kapur

About the talk:

This session was chaired by Prof. Ratna Kapur, International Law, Queen Mary University of London, who analysed how concepts of gender, gender equality, and secularism have been addressed by the higher judiciary in India in cases dealing with matters of religion. The discussion focuses on three landmark decisions of the Indian Supreme Court on gender equality. The cases involve challenges to discriminatory religious practices that target women in the Muslim-minority and Hindu-majority communities.

Read her full paper here.

NLS faculty member and Director of the Centre for Labour Studies, Prof Babu Mathew will be speaking at ‘The Night of Global Social Rights’ –  a 24 hour conversation around the world on social rights and international solidarity.

The event is being organised by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (Geneva Office) and the Civic City association in partnership with dix–milliards–humains and the School for advanced studies in art and design of Geneva (HEAD-Genève).

The ‘Night of Social Rights,’ on 16th and 17th April will be conceived around a series of interviews and conversations with social leaders, trade unionists, members of associations and political organizations with an active presence and developing militant activities in the global south and the “peripheries” of post-industrial societies.

Prof Babu Mathew will be speaking in the 11.30 am slot (IST).

Join the full event on Facebook Live here.
Friday, 16 April from 2 pm (Central European Time), 5.30 pm (IST)
Saturday, 17 April 2 pm (Central European Time), 5.30 pm (IST)

About the event

The most part of discussions around Human Rights in general and Social Rights in particular have always been traversed by an ethnocentric point of view that, by enunciating a list of universal rights and making it vertically enforceable, leave out and dismiss the innumerable manifestations of cultural diversity, and the plurality of struggles and demands that exist beyond the Euro-Atlantic world. It is in this sense that, from a Global perspective, the contemporary struggles for Social Rights need to acknowledge the different ways of defining and appropriating them and to overcome the barrier of their ethnocentric understanding, by privileging the construction of a discourse that recognizes the concerns and struggles of field actors, social organizations, trade unions and cooperative associations in the global south and the “peripheries” of post-industrial societies.

This dialogical collective and Global effort for defining Social Rights will be the aim of this event that will be held in Geneva, Switzerland and worldwide on the social media between April 12 and 17, 2021. The Night on Social Rights is a part of this larger event.

The full schedule of the event is available here.

The session was chaired by Dr Mrinal Satish.

Abstract: In this paper, Dr Mrinal traces the history, interpretation and contemporary application of religious penal clauses in India. He argues that the contemporary application of religious penal clauses has a chilling effect on free speech and expression, and is being used as a tool to curtail dissent and differing points of view. He demonstrates how a few provisions have been actively used in order to prosecute articulation of counter-majoritarian thoughts and views. Analysing contemporary usage of religious penal clauses, he argues that the criminal process is the punishment intended, and that there is no serious effort to take cases filed to their logical end.

The full paper will be made available at a later date.

This session was chaired by Dr. Sushmita Pati, Assistant Professor of Law, NLSIU.

Abstract:
“My work is centred around how cities are constituted by rent. We know enough of how capital and labour make cities. But we don’t really know where to place rent in all of this. But if we do want to understand urbanisation in the global south, I argue that rent is central. To do this, I look at a peculiar form of urban villages in Delhi. In 1950s, in the bid to create a modern postcolonial city, and along with it, modern citizens, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), a statutory body created in 1957, passed an order to acquire 34,070 acres of land under section 4 of Land Acquisition Act on 13 November 1959, in preparation for the Delhi Master Plan. Most of these villages happened to be Jat and Gujjar dominated villages lying on the southern side of the city precincts. Currently, there are some 135 such urban villages or lal dora villages dotting the urban landscape of Delhi. The reasons for not acquiring the village settlement in such a curious fashion are not very clear. A fair guess suggests that this strategy speeded up and cheapened the process of acquisition. In their grandiose scheme of wanting to create an  urban revolution through a regional plan, the planning authorities could not be too bothered about the question of these newly created ‘urban villages’.

It would be decades before the urban authorities begin to get haunted by these unruly spaces, now no longer tamable by law. Urban villages ironically are a by-product of Delhi Master Plan 1962, the modern, regional plan that was supposed to end all woes of the city. At any rate, these villages remain as oddities amidst the vast landscape of upmarket residential colonies, shopping complexes, malls and flyovers. I look at two Jat dominated villages in my work- Munirka and Shahpur Jat, and their transformation as New Delhi continues to grow around them, unabated. In early years of 1960s and 1970s, these villagers try their hand at enterprises like construction and transport and other ancillary businesses whose demands were fuelled by the city. The state, also unsure of what to do with these villages, put them under a building bye-law exemption in 1963. Since they were villages that predated the Master Plan, they were not expected to abide by the building bye-laws. The exemptions therefore, were easy ways through which the state could declare the villages as ‘exceptions’ and therefore, forget about them.”

Read the full paper.

This session was chaired by Rahul Singh, Associate Professor of Law, NLSIU.

Abstract:
India has a nascent competition enactment. But it has an old evidence law—the Indian Evidence Act—of 1872  vintage. The competition commission has shown scepticism towards the applicability of the evidence law to competition proceedings. This article argues that such scepticism is mistaken. Based upon an intrinsic reasoning (ie arguments from the autonomous discipline of law) and two ‘instrumental’ reasonings (ie arguments emphasizing the consequences of the counterfactual), this article underscores that the competition commission ought to develop fidelity towards the Indian Evidence Act. Such fidelity (rather than scepticism) would move the needle of competition jurisprudence towards an effects-based approach in decision-making.

Read the full paper.

This session was chaired by Dr. Sarasu Esther Thomas, Registrar & Professor of Law, NLSIU.

Abstract: This paper looks at the intersection between child marriage and related laws with a special focus on Karnataka which is the only State which has an amendment to the child marriage law declaring such marriages void.

Dr Sarasu takes the position that the stand taken on declaring child marriage void by the One Man Core Committee/ Justice Shivraj Patil Committee, the Karnataka Amendment to the PCMA, and the Court in obiter in Independent Thought as well as Karnataka based studies on child marriage in Karnataka, does harm to the child/ woman (child rights or life cycle approach).

Read the full paper.