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Breaking Barriers: Why Equal Access to Exams Matters
In India, when someone asks a young aspirant, “Are you ready to appear for the exam?”, they rarely mean “Do you have the knowledge?”. What they really mean is: “Do you have the arrangements in place?”. For most students, that…
Beyond Representation: Reimagining the Rajya Sabha as India’s House of Expertise.
The piece proposes that non-voting state appointed members to Rajya Sabha will enhance its role as a federal house that is also meant to serve as a house of expertise.
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Beyond the Leash: Cartesian Detachment and India’s Stray Dog Dilemma
The piece argues that the Indian SC judgments in the stray dogs matter was not an exception but a reflection of the larger Indian jurisprudence on animal rights that is anthropocentric, and views animals as something to be managed (Cartesian…
Federalism in the Platform Age- Lessons from the Online Gaming Act
This piece examines how India’s Online Gaming Act, 2025 challenges the country’s federal balance by using the internet as a pretext for central regulation raising urgent questions about the future of State power in the digital era.
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Lately in Public Law | October 2025
A fortnightly feature inspired by I-CONnect’s weekly “What’s New in Public Law” feature that addresses the lacuna of a one-stop-shop public law newsletter in the Indian legal space. What’s new at LAOT:- 1 Taking the Constitution to the People: Conversations…
REIMAGINING JUSTICE FOR STRAY DOGS IN INDIA
This article critiques the August 2025 orders of the Supreme Court on stray dogs, exposing how human-centered laws ignore animal agency. The author argues that relocation mandates, punitive measures for non-cooperation and the “animal lover” rhetoric reflect a deeper systemic…
LAOT Podcast Series: Assembling India’s Constitution: A Conversation with Professors Rohit De and Ornit Shani
Jeetendra Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Law and Other Things podcast series. I’m Jeetendra, Editor-in-Chief of Law and Other Things. It’s a real pleasure to host today’s conversation with two leading historians whose work is reshaping the way we…