The Constitution of India is a document of aspiration. Conceived as what recent scholarship has called a “break from the (colonial) past”,
In this episode of the P39A Podcast, Devina Malaviya speaks to Philip Mayor of American Civil Liberties Union, Michigan about the use
In this episode of The 39A Dialogues, Senior Advocate and criminal law practitioner Ms. Nitya Ramakrishnan discusses what sets apart the stringent
What should we do when someone wrongs us? It is a question all of us must deal with at some point in
In this episode of The 39A Podcast, Professor Vijay Raghavan and Dr. Anup Surendranath discuss the institutional imagination of prisons in India
Placing the innocent victim (and not the State) on the opposite side of the scale in an adversarial
model, and thus, invoking the
Criminal law practitioners from different parts of the country share their experiences on the varied approaches undertaken by each jurisdiction in dealing
This episode of the 39A podcast discusses the science behind forensic DNA profiling and its scientific and legal practice in India. The
Evaluating aggravating and mitigating circumstances facilitate determining just sentences. Disregarding the crucial role mitigating circumstances play in the process is a bad
The Supreme Court in 1975 had observed that ‘sentencing involves an element of guessing.’ More than 40 years later, this statement still