Pls relay this great opportunity for a residency exchange b/ween two First Nations writers from Australia & two Adivasi writers from India. The location of this fully-funded (visa incl) residency is Aus. Pls request Adivasi writers in your networks to apply. Deadline 22/12/2024👇🏽

As you might have seen, @kulamadayil, Kanad Bagchi, Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস and I are organising a workshop in June 2025 at Decolonial Futures @uvadcf.bsky.social. Kanad Bagchi has promised that it will be a lot of fun. There is only one way to find out! Abstracts due 5 Jan 2025 decolonialfutures.uva.nl/content/news/2…

Teaching moment for legal theory: should courts be arbiters of questions that should belong to science? if they should, should scientific considerations be the primary guide for legal interpretation or should courts solely be concerned with contemporary notions of equality? What

Giséle Pelicot on Vogue's digital cover!

What makes a case law to be labelled as 'landmark'/ 'celebrated'? Normative value laden judgements, Dworkinian hard cases, Scholarly repititions, classroom popularity or something else? What are the markers and in what proportions? #caselaws

*Smelling like hot cakes!* 4.6K quote retweets! Uninformed rants for such a fascinating title and abstract!

The discussion will be focussed on how to inculcate egalitarian values.

Swati S Parmar in the Hindu on the young girl's act of defiance in Iran Body as a site for defiance - thehindu.com/opinion/open-p…, For the best experience read this on The Hindu App. bit.ly/THNewsApp

Revisiting this wonderful argument by Prof Makau Mutua! In his words, "the Article does not only address the biased&arrogant rhetoric& history of the human rights enterprise,but also graples with the contradictions in the basic nobility and majesty that drive the human rights project"

happy birthday Savitrimai 🙏🌻 & #HappyTeachersDay to all educators who aren't fans of Manusmriti.

My favourite part of any city is their old ones. Unabashedly raw, organic! One that wakes up early, full of hustle bustle and is full of surprises. Sharing my favourite unfiltered portions of sub-urbs trapped in urban areas of Cawnpore aka Kanpur. Organically yours!

The irony

I’m living in this weird limbo where it is common knowledge at this point among academics that there’s been a plagiarism accusation against Judge Sebutinde at the ICJ, but the broader public has no idea because Western mainstream media has not reported on it

🔊🔊 Call For Papers: The 10th Biennial Conference of the AsianSIL: Theme: “Strengthening the Role of International Law in Asia” Venue: Hà Nội, October 9-10, 2025 Abstracts due: March 15, 2025. afronomicslaw.org/category/news-…

In the times of MuskyTrump madness, keeping my Sunday sanity intact by reading. Samuel Moyn 🔭 's classic "Humane" & Kevin Jon Heller 's "The illegality of 'Genuine' UHI". Reading them simultaneously and irresistibly! Extraordinary times need extraordinary measures!😎

AsianSIL Voices Blog #44: Swati Singh Parmar, 'The Epistemic Location of Bandung'. Read here: cambridge.org/core/blog/2025…

The Jabalpur law school where I went to give a lecture has a tradition of presenting the speakers with a painting made by students of their art club instead of giving some bouquet or memento. This beautiful painting is by Pragati Jha, a law student!

Emotionally, psychologically & physically challenging it was to resume the University work at a time a vividly talented batch graduated but beautiful letters, books & evocative messages by the students were my saviour. Overwhelming.