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On October 26, 1916, feminist Margaret Sanger was arrested for distributing birth control information shortly after establishing the first US birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York. #ThisDayAtLaw
News Broadcasting & Digital Standards Authority of India deprecates News18 India @News18India for holding a debate linking persons supporting Hijab with Al Qaeda.
NBDSA says the anchor acted in disrespect of the Code of Ethics. Imposes a fine of Rs 50,000 on the channel.
Excited to announce that a new constitutional history journal will soon launch based @WisconsinLaw. The journal will strive to fill the gap between traditional history journals and popular outlets. Any member of the Senior Editorial Board would be happy to answer questions.
One of our legal correspondents in #Afghanistan tells @JURISTnews that hundreds of women marched in #Herat Sunday protesting #HazaraGenocide and the Taliban's removal of women's rights to education. The women planned to march from Herat University to the local governor's office.
The #SupremeCourt decision on #abortion for unmarried women in #India, provides ammo to challenge MTP Act, Surrogacy Act, marital rape exemption, ART Act etc, but @ataparnachandra writes, abortion access will be limited without decriminalization.
https://t.co/CMqpMRVKGe
Honored that my book The Truth Machines @UofMPress@OrientBlackSwan got honourable mention by Asian Law and Society Association's Distinguished Book Award.
Thrilled that Deana Heath's Colonial Terror was the winner. Both on state violence in colonial/or postcolonial India.
Today, a Constitution Bench headed by Justice SK Kaul will hear cases on:
1) Bohra community's right to excommunicate
2) Adequacy of Bhopal Gas Tragedy compensation
3) Retrospective application of immunity against arrest
Centre notifies Rules under the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act, 2022. 'Measurements' includes finger-impressions, palm-print impressions, foot-print impressions, photographs, iris and retina scan, physical, biological samples...
Within minority groups, a difficult-to-pronounce name can reduce the likelihood of receiving a callback for a job by 50%, compared to someone in that group with an easier name to pronounce, research says https://t.co/oyb43bXH4q
Possibility of a fall in rice production due to deficient rainfall & fears of a depletion of stocks in case of sub-par kharif harvest have led to the restrictions but impact on exporters is unlikely to be huge: Harish Damodaran writes @IndianExpress
https://t.co/0yz8aMjb80
My article on the establishment of international ombuds for NGOs accountability @LJIL_Leiden is published online & available for download - do get in touch via email ([email protected]) should you want a copy.
PLR's Annual Volume is excited to share our first published note of Volume 2022: "Defining 'Different'–How Distinctive Methods of Textual Interpretation Led to the Abduction Enhancement Circuit Split."
You can read "Defining 'Different'" on our website: https://t.co/cSGzp3rnS4
And that’s why, forming committees to investigate abdicate the larger duty of the ‘polyvocal’ court to affirm foundational rights of citizens.
@gautambhatia88
Exclusive: Remember Har Ghar Tiranga certificates overflowing your screens? Nearly 50 million Indians ignored privacy concerns under pretext of nationalism and willingly geotagged themselves on a private website https://t.co/reCj96YRqx after Modi's appeal.
https://t.co/UGNoA8KACT
Classic case of ends v means; technicalities in law are good to maintain propriety in law (positivity), albeit there is no clear answer if there is a morality in law.
An important review in commercial laws. J. Banerjee’s another recent judgment in Rainbow Papers requires a review too. Therein, by way of broad findings, statutory dues owed to government were given special treatment. Such treatment is against the spirit of insolvency regime.
SC to hear review petition in the Vidarbha Industries IBC matter in open court. Important hearing as the ruling held that NCLT has discretion not to admit FC's petition even if debt is due & default has taken place.
@LiveLawIndia@barandbench
PRESS RELEASE: #France files a declaration of intervention under Article 63 of the #ICJ Statute in the case concerning Allegations of Genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (#Ukraine v. #Russia) https://t.co/RPZCvFdutX
I'm spending the day at Angel Island, and I'm reeling from the shock of seeing 1930s graffiti from Punjabi internees carved into the walls, in both Gurmukhi and Arabic script
I knew it existed, but the sheer physicality of it is chilling. It's just sitting there.
Vedanta’s iron industry in Goa got clearance to expand despite being caught emitting dangerous substance for more than a decade. It went to great lengths to dodge environmental laws and avoid paying for pollution mitigation efforts. Report by @tapasya_umm
https://t.co/YMhfyNrurL
A new biography of Volodymyr Zelensky provides a portrait of the Ukrainian president’s chaotic first two years in office, but it does not quite explain how the former comedian transitioned to vaunted wartime leader.
https://t.co/B3j2CUJAqN