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Spectacles Of Emancipation: Reading Rights Differently In India's Legal Discourse, Oishik Sircar
Spectacles Of Emancipation: Reading Rights Differently In India's Legal Discourse, Oishik Sircar
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
How does neo-liberalism change the way we understand rights, law, and justice? With postcolonial and post-liberalization India as its focal point, this article attempts to disrupt the linear, progressive equation that holds that more laws equals more rights equals more justice. This is an equation that has informed and been informed by fundamental rights jurisprudence and law reform, the enactment of legislation to guarantee socio-economic rights, and many of the strategies of social movement activism in contemporary India. This article argues that while these developments have indeed proliferated a public culture of rights, they have simultaneously been accompanied by the …
Post-9/11 Lawyers, Trevor C. W. Farrow
Post-9/11 Lawyers, Trevor C. W. Farrow
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Based on notes made by the author during a visit to the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan.