The Illegal Citizen – Course Modules – Sexual Citizenship and Claiming the City
Course on The Illegal Citizen A course that examines the relationship between citizenship, participation and illegality. It consists of two modules. 1. Module on Sexual Citizens This module of the course will seek to understand if there is a sexuality underlying the idea of citizenship. Citizenship is normally framed in abstract ...
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2 Day Course on ‘Unpacking Reservations’
This course offers an outline of the basic concepts underlying within the caste-based quota system. Students will be exposed to the major debates concerning reservations as well as a the role caste has on students. The modules have been designed with college students in mind, but this experience is open ...
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In a Field of Pain and Death: Course on Law, Literature and Violence
[This was a course offered to final year students at National Law School of India, Bangalore.] “The task of a critique of violence can be seen as that of expounding its relation to law and justice” -Walter Benjamin, Reflections The law and literature movement in the west is now well ...
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Single Credit Seminar Course on Human Rights Lawyering: Principles and Practices National Law School of India, 16-20 March 2015
Traditional teaching on human rights focuses on textual traditions such as Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Bill of Rights or the Constitution and jurisprudence related to the same. In another understanding, Prof. Upendra Baxi notes that human rights are authored by people in resistance and communities in struggle. This ...
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Human Rights Lawyering Course on Principles And Practices
Traditional teaching on human rights focuses on textual traditions such as Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Bill of Rights or the Constitution and jurisprudence related to the same. In another understanding, Prof. Upendra Baxi notes that human rights are authored by people in resistance and communities in struggle. This ...
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Understanding Legal Issues Concerning Competition in Media
Presentation made by Smarika Kumar on 20 May 2014 at the Mapping the Digital Media in India Roundtable organised by Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi in collaboration with the Centre for Culture, Media & Governance at Jamia Millia Islamia, the Centre for Internet & Society and ...
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Understanding the Problem of Piracy: A Perspective From The Issue of Access
Presentation made by Smarika Kumar at the National Seminar on Copyright organised by National Book Trust and Sahitya Akademi on World Book and Copyright Day in Calcutta University on 23rd April 2014. https://www.scribd.com/presentation/227370776/The-Problem-of-Piracy-A-Perspective-from-the-Issue-of-Access ...
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Towards A Pop Culture Pedagogy
This paper attempts to answer the question of how to conduct a law and popular culture course in the law school. Based on the author's experience of conducting such courses at NLSIU, Bangalore and NALSAR, Hyderabad, the paper shares the actual experience of teaching it. Read on Scribd here. Danish ...
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Mapping Media Policy and Law – Course Designs and Modules
Project Overview Mapping Media Policy and Law occupies the terrain of research, pedagogy & advocacy on Media Policy & Law (MPL) in India. The central objective of the project is to promote MPL as both, an academic field and a focal point of media advocacy in India. It aims to ...
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Teaching Media Policy and Law – A Faculty Workshop (South Zone)
A workshop on media pedagogy organized by ALF and CCMG to be held on the 24th and 25th of April, 2012 at National Law School of India University, Bangalore Teaching Media Policy and Law Current Issues in Media Environment and Challenges to Law The landscape of the media, including the ...
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