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Welcome to the Modern Criminal Law Review Podcast! MCLR+ is a collaborative project designed to facilitate multilateral discourse about criminal law across countries, systems, and disciplines: a global platform for a global subject. MCLR+ is international, interdisciplinary, and multimedia: it features contributions from any disciplinary, doctrinal, or domestic perspective and in any format or medium that may shed light on one of the most vexing, and urgent, topics in law and governance.
Criminal Law and the Constitution of the Postcolony: India (A Book Panel)
The Modern Criminal Law Review Podcast
1 hour 43 minutes
1 week ago
Criminal Law and the Constitution of the Postcolony: India (A Book Panel)
Imagine adopting a constitution notionally designed to install “The People” as the true repository of sovereign power and to throw off the colonial yoke, yet retaining a criminal justice system designed to maximize the police power of the colonial sovereign. That’s what happened when India adopted its Constitution in 1950 while leaving its 19th century colonial criminal codes in place. This MCLR+ event assembles a panel of scholars and lawyers to explore fundamental issues of popular sovereignty and the intersection of constitutional and criminal law that lie at the heart of Sandipto Dasgupta’s Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony (Cambridge UP 2024) (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/... ).
This book panel forms part of the MCLR+ series of events, publications, and resources focussed on Indian criminal law. [For further information, please consult MCLR+ Resources: India. (https://crimlrev.net/mclr-resources/)]
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Abhinav Sekhri (moderator) is a legal writer and lawyer practicing in New Delhi, India. He specializes in criminal law, evidence, and procedure.
Gautam Bhatia Lawyer, Scholar & Author, Delhi, India
Anuj Bhuwania, SNU Chennai
Arudra Burra, IIT Delhi
Aparna Chandra, NLSIU
Sandipto Dasgupta, New School, NYC (author)
The Modern Criminal Law Review Podcast
Welcome to the Modern Criminal Law Review Podcast! MCLR+ is a collaborative project designed to facilitate multilateral discourse about criminal law across countries, systems, and disciplines: a global platform for a global subject. MCLR+ is international, interdisciplinary, and multimedia: it features contributions from any disciplinary, doctrinal, or domestic perspective and in any format or medium that may shed light on one of the most vexing, and urgent, topics in law and governance.
