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Law and PsychologyLaw and Society
August 12, 2020

Contempt Powers of Indian Courts Don’t Measure Up to the Principles of Natural Justice

Perhaps the paradigm of an all powerful judiciary sending down bolts of righteous wrath on a cowering populace needs to be set aside and the emerging complex issues in the…
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Law and Psychology
July 29, 2019

Supreme Wisdom: Wolf To Guard Sheep

SUPREME WISDOM: WOLF TO GUARD SHEEP By Rakesh Shukla In apparently a laudable and bold move headlines that ‘SC will depute CBI, police officials to curb graft in registry’ greet…
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Gender JusticeLaw and Psychology
April 30, 2019

Even Judges Are Mortals When it Comes to Sexual Harassment at the Workplace

Do individuals placed in the judicial position become miraculously free from ordinary human emotions? The recent allegations of sexual harassment against the chief justice of India, and his manner of dealing…
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Law and Psychology
July 19, 2018

Vulnerable Witnesses And Criminal Justice System: Role Of Intermediaries

A recent June 21st incident where a child with Down’s syndrome witnessed a murderand two attempted murders draws our attention to the serious lacunae in the Indian legal system with…
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Law and Psychology
March 20, 2017

Interstices and interfaces: a psychoanalytic look at the role of the unconscious and the irrational in law.

Neither at that time, nor indeed in my later life, did I feel any particular predilection for the career of a doctor….Under the powerful influence of a school friendship with…
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Law and Psychology
March 16, 2017

The Role Of The Unconscious And Irrational In Law: A Psycho-Social Gaze

Many of us as lawyers or litigants may at times have witnessed or been a party to an irritable exchange between the judge and a lawyer in the court. All…
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Law and Psychology
July 4, 2016

Mother, Motherland and the Judicial Function: the Case of Kanhaiya Kumar

Factual Matrix Kanhaiya Kumar, the President of the Students Union of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi, India was arrested on charges of sedition for participating in an event…
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Law and Psychology
December 22, 2015

Trauma Survivors Meet the Law: Explorations in India

Evolving jurisprudence increasingly tries to take on board more and more areas of discrimination and disability in the quest for justice. The sensitizations to caste, gender, class and sexual orientation…
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Law and Psychology
September 12, 2013

Juvenile delinquents: The processing of the negative

The near certainty of the award of death penalty to the four adult accused in the case throws into sharp contrast the fact that the juvenile in the Nirbhaya case…
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Law and Psychology
July 10, 2012

Adversarial Matrimonial Law Dynamics, Intimate Relations, and the Narcissism of Minor Differences

“And not only historical fascism, the fascism of Hitler and Mussolini- which was able to mobilize and the use of desire of the masses so effectively- but also the fascism…
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