In an attempt to facilitate the discourse on criminal law development, our team hosted six lectures on criminal law and criminal justice while we were a part of Project 39A, National Law University Delhi.
In the 2018 inaugural lecture, Former Justice S. Muralidhar (former Chief Justice of Orissa High Court and Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and Delhi High Court) spoke about the trajectories of Indian criminal law in India. Introductory remarks were given by Dr. Menaka Guruswamy (Advocate, Supreme Court of India).
We hosted Dr. Prabha Kotiswaran (Professor of Law and Social Justice, King’s College London) who delivered the 2nd edition of the Annual Lecture on the importance of re-thinking on carceral approaches of the state towards crimes against women.
In the third edition of the Annual Lecture Series, Professor Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Former Professor of Political Science, Ashoka University) spoke on the topic The Dissenter as Criminal: Reflections on Dissent and the Law. It provides a broader perspective on the current crisis of liberal constitutionalism in India and its implications for criminal and constitutional law alike.
The fourth lecture, delivered by Dr. Pratima Murthy (Director and Professor of Psychiatry, NIMHANS, Bangalore), reflected on cutting edge interdisciplinary research on biological, psychological, and sociological factors that influence crime and criminality. It also draws attention to the role which psychologists, sociologists, social workers, health practitioners and professionals from other such fields can play in the criminal justice system.
In the sixth edition of the Annual Lecture Series, Justice U U Lalit (former Chief Justice of India) spoke about the evolution of death penalty law at the Supreme Court of India over the decades since the enactment of the Criminal Procedure Code 1973.
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