Access to Safe Abortions in India: A Fraught Reality
In light of the Supreme Court quashing the Delhi High Court judgement disallowing the termination of pregnancy after 24 weeks; Anupriya Dhonchak speaks to Dr. A... Read more.
Constitutional validity of the PMLA
On 27 July 2022, the three-judge bench headed by J. Khanwilkar upheld the constitutional validity of various provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Ac... Read more.
Affective Experience of Incarceration
The law and the criminal justice system, we are told, is logical and dispassionate. There is no space in it for the emotions and vulnerabilities of its stakehol... Read more.
Women’s Liberation and the Carceral Project
Hrishika Jain and Prof. Aya Gruber discuss the carceral form of feminism's engagement with sexual violence, its implications for victims and feminism's own tran... Read more.
Intellectual Disability and the Death Penalty
Shruthi speaks to Prof Tassé about what intellectual disability is, who can diagnose it, the evolution of jurisprudence on Intellectual disability in the US an... Read more.
India’s Sedition Law: the story so far, and what happens now?
Adrija Ghosh and Lubhyathi Rangarajan discuss about the developments in the Supreme Court hearings on the batch of petitions challenging the constitutionality o... Read more.
Deviant Female Sexuality and Criminal Law in India
Adrija Ghosh and Dr, Durba Mitra discuss the idea of 'deviant female sexuality' that became foundational to modern social thought in colonial India, and continu... Read more.
Cinema and Criminal Justice
Project 39A recommends four Indian films - Court (2014), Visaranai (2015), Jai Bhim (2021) and Aakrosh (1980) - which center the experiences of the most margina... Read more.
Understanding crime in India through the lens of data: Rukmini S in conversation with Ayan Gupta
In this interview, Rukmini S, a data journalist and author discusses with Ayan Gupta, a Death Penalty Fellow at Project 39A about her book and particularly the ... Read more.
An Analysis Of The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022
On March 28, 2022, the Lok Sabha voted for introducing the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 (‘the Bill’). The Bill seeks to collect what it te... Read more.