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The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday reprimanded social media influencer and law student Sharmishtha Panoli for passing derogatory remarks against a minority community. Noting that her comments hurt the religious sentiments of a community, the single-judge Bench of Justice Partha Sarathi Chatterjee said that India being a diverse country, the freedom of speech should not be misused to hurt others. Panoli moved the High Court seeking quashing of the case registered against her and consolidat...

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Global Norms, Local Laws: How India is Constitutionalising International Law

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When Patriarchy Clouds The Law

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Tested by Questions, Exposed by Answers

By Kenneth Tiven “Define habeas corpus in Amer...

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Former Chief Justice of India Justice D.Y Chandrachud has said lawyers today must not only interpret statutes but also understand how AI systems arrive at their recommendations. He said this while inaugurating PALETTE (Professional Advancement in Law through Executive Training & Technical Education), the country's first AI-powered Legal Innovation Centre recently, the former CJI , at the India International Centre, New Delhi. Launched by BITS Law School, in collaboration wit...