Workshop for the India Vision Foundation on the NALSA decision, the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act and more specifically, on the rights of transgender and gender-diverse persons in carceral facilities.

2022

The workshop was conducted by Esha Shekhar and Neha Koshy, who authored a book titled, "Understanding Workplace laws for women in India".

2021

In collaboration with ARC International.

2019

2017

In collaboration with Gender Matters

2017

2013

In collaboration with CREA 

2013

The lecture was part of the annual Law & Justice Scholar Lecture series. This year’s lecture was delivered by the Law & Justice Scholar, 2023-24 Nikita Sonavane with Professor Dhiren Borisa joining as the Discussant.

Nikita and Professor Dhiren engaged in conversations on the changing landscape of rights and access to justice in the backdrop of digital advancement and carceral politics.

2024

The Centre for Justice, Law, and Society (CJLS) and Jindal Global Law Review (JGLR) atJindal Global Law School (JGLS), O.P. Jindal Global University and the Centre for Trade and Investment Law (CTIL) at the Indian Institute for Foreign Trade (established by Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India) and WTO Chairs Programme (India Chair) collaborated on an international Symposium among scholars, activists, policymakers and students on the intricate relationship between health law and political economy.

The Symposium aimed to critically examine the intersections of healthcare delivery, legal frameworks, global relations, and socio-economic dynamics, with a vision to reshape narratives and drive tangible change. It sought to spark ongoing dialogue and advocacy, envisioning a future where health is universally recognized as a right and where political and economic systems prioritize the upliftment of marginalized communities. As discussions evolve, the Symposium emphasizes the need to navigate the complexities of global health governance, keeping in mind its profound impact on individual lives and societal structures.

2024

The preliminary consultation was held to create space for engaging with academics, activists, community leaders and key stakeholders who are familiar with the socio-political landscape of the region and are working towards addressing issues of access to justice, particularly from a gendered lens. The purpose of this consultation was to identify broad themes, which we will explore further in the field research. The consultation with academics, activists and civil society actors will help us understand the various issues that women face in Punjab and how the specific cultural, economic, social and political context of Punjab influences how women access justice in Punjab.

2024

This event was a collaborative effort between CJLS and CWR at Jindal Global Law School and the University of California, Santa Barbara.

This workshop engaged with some of the key queer research methodology texts in an intimate setting and envisage what does it mean to do collaborative queer methodological work for scholars work in/from specific places in the global south.

2023

Part 1 of the Symposium was organised by CJLS In collaboration with Sruti Disability Rights Centre, TransCare India, Rising Flame, The Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW), Center for Reproductive Rights, Transmen Collective and CommonHealth India. Part 1 of the Symposium was composed of two panels:

Panel 1 on Decriminalising Abortion: Towards a Rights-Based Approach with Professor Alicia Yamin (Lecturer on Law and the Senior Fellow on Global Health and Rights, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics, Harvard Law School), Clara Rita Padilla (Founder and Executive Director, EnGendeRights and Spokesperson, Philippine Safe Abortion Advocacy Network (PINSAN)), Agnieszka Król (Sociologist, Researcher, and Activist) and Phylis Mbeke Ndolo (Executive Director, Women spaces Africa) moderated by Andrea Parra (Queer Colombian Attorney, Feminist Legal Activist, Experiential Trainer and Translator).

Panel 2 on Reproductive Justice: A Discourse in Centering Access with Professor Mytheli Sreenivas (Associate Professor, History and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Ohio State University), Nikita Sonavane (Co-founder, Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project, Legal Researcher and Advocate), Maria Ní Fhlatharta (Real Productive Justice Project, Centre for Disability Law and Policy) and Blas Radi (Researcher, the Argentinian Society of Philosophical Analysis and a Human Rights Activist) moderated by Vqueeram (Independent Researcher).

2022

Over the course of four webinars, we interrogated issues of crime and punishment in India, particularly in relation to caste, gender, and securitisation. CJLS, in collaboration with Criminal Justice And Police Accountability Project & Detention Solidarity, brought together a range of speakers, including those affected by carceral politics, lawyers, scholars, and activists, to help us frame what anti-carceral politics in India can look like.

2021

2021

The webinar was organised by the Centre in collaboration with BehanBox to discuss and deliberate the challenges of the proposed abortion law reforms in 2020. The webinar highlighted the need for a consultative law making process while engaging with the State on gender justice.

The panel featured Nidhi Goyal from Rising Flame, Nikita Sonavane from the CPA Project, Sunita fromHahe ryana ASHA Workers Union, and Vqueeram, from the Centre for Law and Policy Research.

2020

In collaboration with YP Foundation.

2020

This international dialogue, in collaboration with ARC International, aimed to create a space to reflect on and analyse the ways in law, social transformation and the struggle for dignity and justice are linked. It also aimed to document and publish these reflections so that they may be shared and utilized by a broad range of global stakeholders.

2019

In collaboration with Center for Reproductive Rights.

2019

Sexing the Law, Activism and Sexual Justice was conference in collaboration with the University of Connecticut and University of Sussex that urged us to reconsider how a politics of sexual justice can be auto-critical, intersectional, reparative and inclusive. The conference explored the role of legal institutions and the State in regulating, controlling and conforming gender and sexuality.

Dr. Lynette Chua and Satya Rai Nagpaul delivered the opening and closing keynote addresses.

Learn more about the event here.

2019

The Centre hosted a one-day symposium together with the Center for Reproductive Rights on ‘Reproductive Rights in Indian Courts: Celebrating Progress, Identifying Challenges and Discussing the Way Forward‘ at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi on February 11th, 2017.

The symposium deliberated on judicial recognition of women’s reproductive rights as a fundamental right. Courts in India are increasingly being approached to seek remedies for violations of women’s reproductive rights in the context of preventable maternal mortality and denial of access to safe and legal abortion and other violations.

You can learn more about the discussions here.

2017

‘Left’ in the Dark was an international conference that created a space for conversations on sex and gender politics in post/ settler colonial spaces in neo-liberal times.

The conference was organised as a continuation of the Jindal Global Law Review‘s special double issue themed ‘Law, Culture and Queer Politics in Neoliberal Times’.

2014

The Tenth Law, Sexuality & Society Annual Lecture Series, 2024 organised by the Centre attempts to take forward the conversations on the role of the law in shaping the narratives and informing dominant discourses on identity, sex, gender and sexuality.

In this edition, we were in conversation with Dipika Thakur who spoke on Reimagining Economic Justice through Trans Rights; Abirami Jyotheeswaran who discussed the film 2500 Years of Slavery Voices of Dalit Women; and Professor Priya Gupta who discussed Law & Political Economy Method.

2024

The ninth edition of the Law, Sexuality and Society Lecture and Conversation Series focused on the theme of “Towards Anti-Caste and Anti-Carceral Politics.” The Centre hosted three speakers who engaged with abolition and anti-carcerality from lenses of caste, gender, imperialism and intersectionality. For the first lecture, Vqueeram spoke on “Towards a Trans Practice of Abolition”. This was followed by Sunaina Arya who gave a lecture on “Caste, Gender and Imperialism: An International Prism”. Professor Xaxa gave the final lecture on "Tribal Assertions of Identity and Rights and Carceral Politics in India."

2023

For the first lecture of the eight edition in the series, we had prominent activist and interdisciplinary artist Aroh Akunth speak to the audience about how caste interests drive economic interests and shape political aspirations in their lecture on Caste: Queer Aspirations & Politics. For the second lecture, we has the team from Kolkata Anandan for Equality & Justice (KAEJ), Sintu Bagui, Nitai Giri and Dr. Soma Roy host a screening of their film Until & Unless which chronicles the lives of 4 transgender persons prior to the Supreme Court’s ruling in NALSA. This was followed by a conversation with the guests from KAEJ. For the final lecture in the series, we had Jaya Sharma of the Kinky Collective come engage with questions of pleasure, power be consent in her lecture on An Offering from BDSM to Feminism.'

2022

Owing to the ongoing pandemic, the series was limited to a singular lecture where we engaged virtually with prominent scholar and lawyer Kiruba Munusamy who spoke to the audience on Dalit Masculinity.

2020

In the sixth part of the series, we invited Trans Rights Activist Simran Shaikh to hold a discussion on Diversity & Inclusion. The second speaker for the series, Justice Sabrina McKenna also spoke on Gender, Sexuality and the Bench: One Womxn’s Story as part of the Law, Sexuality and Society Lecture and Conversation Series.

2019

The fifth Law Sexuality & Society Lecture and Conversation Series witnessed exciting conversations from 5 key speakers which included Dhiren Borisa who spoke on Ephemeral Desires in the City: Queer Geographies and Imaginations of Freedom in Delhi, and Akshay Khanna who spoke on Between the Homophobic and the Homoerotic: Disavowal of the Erotic in the Idioms of Violence.  Jamal Siddiqui was the speaker for the third lecture and spoke on the challenges and developments in the Collectivisation of Transmen and this was followed by the lecture on Gender & Sexuality: Towards an Understanding of What Constitutes Investigative Journalism by Dhamini Ratnam. The concluding lecture in the series was by Jaya Sharma on Consent, BDSM and Beyond.

2018

As part of the fourth Law, Sexuality & Society Lecture & Conversation Series, CJLS hosted variety of speakers to address contemporary topics and issues, particularly in the domain of queer rights. Akhil Kang was the speaker for the first lecture for the series and spoke on ‘Queering Dalits’. This was followed by a conversation between Aarav Singh and Nirvair Kaur who spoke about the challenges faced by transmen and transwomen pursuant to the decision in NALSA v Union of India. The third lecture in the series interrogated the role of the law and its impact on the lives of LBT persons with Rituparna Borah as the speaker. Jaya Sharma of Kinky Collective and Manish also held a conversation on BDSM, Consent & Social Justice and the the concluding lecture of the series was by Vqueeram and Dhruba Jyoti where they engaged in a discussion on Caste and Sexuality.

2017

CJLS hosted the third Law Sexuality & Society Conversation and Lecture Series in 2016 with sessions focusing on issues of privacy, bodily autonomy liberty. Svati P Shah held the inaugural lecture for the series on   Sexuality, Privacy & the Law, especially in view of the tensions between Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code and the provisions of the Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act of 1956.  We also had Tsohil Bhatia talk to the audience about the relationship between the body and the camera in the lecture on Exploring the Nude & the Naked and Performance to a Camera. The theme of resistance was central to the conversation facilitated by Professor Veena Oldernburg in her lecture, Lifestyle as Resistance: The Courtesans of Lucknow. Colin Gonsalves also addressed issues of privacy and bodily autonomy in his conversation on Abortion in the Supreme Court of India.

2016

We hosted 6 speakers who facilitated conversations on series of topics that explored issues at the intersection of law and marginalisation. The series witnessed some exciting discussions on Law at the Intersection of Caste, Gender and Sexuality in conversation with Professor Sumit Baudh. We also had Vqueeram engage with the audience on Who is the Subject of Queer Politics and Rukmini Sen come and talk to us about Exploring the Boundaries of Legality and Transgressions in Everyday Life. Abhina Aher held a discussion on the shifting landscape of Transgender Rights Activism post the verdict in NALSA, Payoshini Mitra spoke to the intersection of Law & Sexuality in Sports. We also invited Siddharth Narain to address issues of Hate Speech, Violence & Incitement.

2015

The first part of the Law, Sexuality & Society Conversation & Lecture Series was organised in 2012 with three lectures. The first of these was on Reproductive Rights in the Indian and International Courts, with Kerry McBroom providing an overview of the same. For the second lecture, we has Professor Veena Oldenburg providing us insights into the Legal Constructions of Sexuality in Colonial Lucknow and the concluding lecture for the series was by Danish Sheikh who facilitated a conversation on the topic of Queer Liberation and Communities of Tolerance.

2012