Assistant Professor (Law), National Law School of India University, Bangalore: interests include public law, media law, human rights law, law and sexuality
Bengaluru, India
Joined May 2009
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In the latest edition of #BookwormsRecommend, here's one of our esteemed patrons, Lawyer & Professor at NLS, Dr. Siddharth Narrain suggesting some of his favourite books he thinks fellow bibliophiles will like. Do come over and check out @snarrain's recommendations.
Really good opportunity to work at a unique LGBTQI themed archive housed at NLSIU:
NLSIU invites applications for one full-time role at the Queer Archive for Memory, Reflection and Activism (QAMRA) based out of the University campus for a period of one year.
Apply before: October 15, 2024 | 5 PM
To know more & apply, visit nls.ac.in/news-events/call-f…
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I am recruiting PhD students!
If you are interested in working on studying misinformation, hate speech and political polarization with a focus in non WEIRD contexts, please consider applying and mention my name.
The deadline for our department @Rutgers is January 5.
A Superb analysis by @shohinisengupta of India’s Unique Digital Identity (aadhaar) project via Donna Haraway: Enumerative Indian State, and the 'Ideal Cyborg'
A freewheeling interview with Stephen from The Wigs about the Indian legal and political landscape as part of my role as the podcast’s India correspondent omny.fm/shows/the-wigs/a-cha…
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@Latrobelaw’s IntlLaw & Comparative Law Cluster is offering 2 fully funded PhD scholarships for interdisciplinary applicants who wish to explore the changing nature of poverty in the 21st Century. Come to work with @l_eslava & colleagues! #ApplicationsOpen tinyurl.com/3c326k82
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The chapters in 'Acts of Media' by @snarrain, address the relationship between #law & #media through different entry points—disputes over media & information systems shaping law, theories of law that incorporate media forms, & law & media co-producing trials.
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First ‘Acts of Media’ book event at @NLSIUofficial ! Thanks to @LokaneetaJinee , Ravi Sundaram, @KunalAmbasta , Srijoni Sen, Rinku Lamba for an engaging session! Link to download book is included below:
Here are some glimpses from an eventful book discussion organised by @NLSIUofficial on 'Acts of Media: Law and #Media in Contemporary #India'.
The panel included the speakers, @snarrain, Ravi Sundaram & Jinee Lokaneeta and discussants, Rinku Lamba, Srijoni Sen & Kunal Ambasta.
Can’t wait to get my hands on @mayursuresh s monograph on Terror Trials in Delhi’s Courts
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The Law & Society Association has announced two new projects, of which one is a global collaboration projects aimed at collaborations and support for scholarship from the Global South: lawandsociety.site-ym.com/ge…
My fellow PhD candidate @justinjos_ on legal waivers, corporations, and implications for human rights
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Excellent initiative from the Yale ISP project targeted at supporting platform governance scholarship from the Global South
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Excited to be speaking at this panel organized by Macquarie Law School & The American Bar Association on access to Justice for LGBTI people on the Indian experience with the constitutional challenge to the anti sodomy law and it’s relationship to social movements !
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The official announcement on the @icas_mp site ! Acts of Media is part of an open access series and can be downloaded through their site- physical copies will be available to buy soon on Amazon and other platforms
'Acts of Media: #Law and Media in Contemporary #India', ed. by @snarrain (@UNSW) is out on #OpenAccess!
This book seeks to consolidate a field of multidisciplinary work around #media #technologies that intersects with legal scholarship.
bit.ly/3FAtG22 @SAGEPubIndia
Acts of Media is part of a SAGE-ICAS:MP open access series on Politics and Society in the Global South, with 10 essays related to contemporary developments in the field of law and media India and 2 essays focusing on Sri Lanka. spectrum.sagepub.in/book/act…
It's out!! Acts of Media, my edited volume on Law & Media in Contemporary India. Thanks to all the authors of the volume, the team at SAGE-ICAS:MP; and to my colleagues from my time at Sarai-CSDS, for their amazing support! : spectrum.sagepub.in/book/act…
Can’t wait for the launch of this exciting podcast series on the constitutional history of key cases in the career of the late Anil Divan, Sr advocate of the Supreme Court of India !!
On the occasion of #OpenAccessWeek2022 happy to flag my forthcoming edited volume Acts of Media: Law & Media in Contemporary India , part of this excellent open SAGE-ICAS:MP open access series on politics and society in India & the Global South !:)
On this International #OpenAccessWeek2022, we are delighted to share our open access ICAS:MP - @SAGEPubIndia series '#Politics and #Society in India and the Global South'.
Here are some fantastic OA books: bit.ly/3TSsQBC
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It's one of the wildest tech reporting stories I've ever heard: @alexstamos & I go in depth on the The Wire v. Meta in India fiasco.
What. is. going. on. and why does it really matter in platforms' most important market?
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For folks interested in free speech histories and the law in india
🚨New Episode Alert🚨
Episode 9 of the #FreeSpeechPodcast is live now!
Watch @RadhikaJhalani and Lawyer & PhD Scholar at @UNSW, Siddharth Narrain (@snarrain) discuss sedition laws in India, hate speech, freedom of speech on social media, and more, here:
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