Anyone interested in academic freedom in India should read this excellent paper by my former student Siddharth Saxena:

An Excerpt from "हम भारत के लोग", co-authored with Surbhi Karwa . "हम भारत के लोग" का एक अंश, सुरभि करवा के साथ सह-लिखित। vaniprakashan.com/blogs/post/%E0…

📢#NLSIU announces #ResearchFellowships commencing this Academic Year 2025-26! The new Research Fellowships will contribute to the creation of original knowledge in law, social sciences, public policy, and cognate disciplines with a focus on five grand challenges identified by

The flip side of this is that one is a bad teacher if one turns one’s pupils into acolytes. HLA was exemplary in not doing this, and that’s one reason he stimulated a resurgence of legal philosophy.

Elective Teaching at NLSIU: Deadline Extended! The deadline to apply for Elective teaching during the University's second trimester (Nov 3, 2025 to Jan 23, 2026) has been extended to August 24, 2025. Three types of Elective Courses are common at NLSIU: - Taught Course

A great opportunity for young scholars to join NLS faculty nls.ac.in/news-events/ca…

Full marks to the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly NI Legal Quarterly for curating this terrific Special Issue on academic writing, with personal ‘Reflections on Writing’ from Nikki Lacey, Emily Jackson, Shaun Pattinson & many more. All open access nilq.qub.ac.uk/index.php/nilq…

SAU’s expulsion of professor over ‘incitement’: A constitutional void that renders rights unenforceable indianexpress.com/article/opinio… via The Indian Express

In this paradigm-shifting history, two leading historians Rohit and Ornit Shani of India re-examine the making of the Indian constitution from the perspective of the country’s people. In a departure from dominant approaches that foreground the framing of the text within

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The full text of the 'Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education': washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/upl…

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This has now been published in print in the latest issue of Indian Law Review. Free to access e-prints are available at: tandfonline.com/eprint/KE3WRKB….

We don't talk enough about the lack of academic freedom in India.

This article examines the growing interference of founders and trustees in the day-to-day workings of Ashoka University through its governing practices. the-edict.in/post/who-does-…

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#FacultyPublication "Most scholarship on Indian higher education regulation, rooted in a political economy framework, has focussed on identifying why domestic universities lag in quality, scale, cost, and accessibility." Siddharth Saxena, Assistant Professor of Law, #NLSIU, in

nehruarchive.in 🤩 a historians delight!

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