Explainers

Explainers

Explainer: How Vice President Dhankar’s resignation has opened the lens to a constitutional ambiguity
What is the Kerala HC’s new AI policy all about? And what more is needed?
Jamia, Aligarh and the complex legacies of India’s Muslim institutions: Laurence Gautier’s new book tackles it all
From Baghdad to Gaza, legal storytelling as a strategic power in international law
In the Andhra Pradesh HC’s recent decision on transgender women’s rights in marriage, a reaffirmation of their legal identity as women
World Organization Against Torture flags India as “high risk” country for police torture: Some reflections
How provincial and princely politics around language and sovereignty shaped Indian Constitution’s making: A multi-part series
Madhya Pradesh’s death penalty proposal for forced conversions shuns the judiciary’s principled stand on both capital punishment and conversions
In its verdict on taxing entertainment in the digital age, the top Court clarifies a complex area of law
Making sense of India’s global standing on conjugal visitations and progeny rights of prisoners
What are the options before CJI Sanjiv Khanna as the ‘Justice Verma’ in-house committee finally submits report?
X Corp. v. Union of India: All you need to know about the Karnataka HC battle over Sahyog portal, censorship and the scope of the IT Act
Does the data protection law adequately address the needs of persons with disabilities?
From the 14th Amendment to Trump's Executive Order: U.S. policy response, legal challenges and global debates on immigration reforms
How an efficient integration of AI into our judicial system could help realise “complete justice”
Role of a judge: When to recuse?
ANI v. OpenAI in the Delhi HC: Everything so far and all that is at stake
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A game of ‘constitutional hardball’: What next in the saga of Governors indefinitely sitting over bills?
Explainer: Why the 'curing' of arbitral award under Article 142 is sheer judicial overreach
KIIT student death: Need to reform UGC and BCI guidelines to strengthen institutional accountability
What does Karnataka’s new Bill for platform-based gig workers entail?
In Ranjitsinh, the Supreme Court broke new ground, but how practical is it?
Decriminalisation: The way forward for sex workers in India—Part 2
Meta’s plan to phase out its fact-checking programme
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The Waqf Amendment Bill goes beyond constitutionally allowed State interference for better administration
All you wanted to know about the Draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025
The slip culture in trial courts in Kerala: A symptom of a broken system
Santiago Martin case: Privacy versus investigation
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