RESOURCES
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Daily Legal Newsletter
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Free Supreme Court Search
- A useful site for those searching for Supreme Court judgements http://judis.openarchive.in/
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Commons-law Mailing List
- A mailing list on law, culture, technology and the public domain
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From Activist to Alternative Lawyering
- A paper by tarunabh Khaitan which looks at the history of activist lawyering in India
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Lex Libre - The Open Law Archive
- An Open Archive of Student projects/articles/ working papers contributed to the public domain. This will enable the creation of a large database of legal resources, something which is sorely needed in India. Please enter to read the concept note and to access articles contributed by students
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Open Cultures/ Open Knowledge
- We are interested in engagin with emerging open content models of knowledge production. This page tracks interesting cultural practises that advocates alternatives to the dominant trend of strong intellectual property protection
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RIGHTS OF SEX WORKERS
- Material on sex work and issue of Trafficking
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Domestic Workers minimum wages
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WRITINGS ON TSUNAMI
- Some comments and writings on Tsunami victims
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COMMUNALISM
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CRIMINAL LAW
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Right02Copy
- A comic that talks about copying as culture, and how art, music and other forms of creativity rely on copying. This comic is a rescension/parody/counterdrama of the comic published by the World Intellectual Property Organisation. Feedback can be sent to namita@altlawforum.org
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Cities as a Legal Arena
- A lot of our work has been looking at questions of urban livelihoods, shelter and questions, with respect to the urban poor. This section contains a range of our work and materials that we have been collecting on the idea of cities as legal arenas.
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The Other Information City
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HIV/AIDS JUDGEMENTS
- The discrimination, stigmatisation and rights violations that PLWHA face have necessitated a judicial response. At the same time, the urgent need to tackle HIV/AIDS has created an opportunity to reform shortcomings of the system. This has led to a string of judgments from the courts. Below are some significant judgments on HIV/AIDS passed by Indian Courts
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pickpocket
- Terrible SBI ad linking working class to criminality. For the other ads in series see http://www.agencyfaqs.com/perl/advertising/newcamps/newcamps.html?id=3482
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Between Law and Justice- A Law and Society reader
- A database on Law and Society scholarship in india
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Judicial Nineties
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HumanRights
- Writings and other Issue of Human Rights
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Orders and Notifications Related to the SC/ST Act
- Government Orders and Notifications related to Scheduled Tribes/Scheduled Castes, and cases registered under the SC/ST Act

