On 23 December (Friday), NLSIU is hosting a book event on “Acts of Media: Law and Media in Contemporary India”.
About NLSIU
NLSIU was the first National Law University established in India in 1986. The premier law school was set up with a mission to pioneer legal education reforms, and to anchor the transformation of the Indian legal system through research and policy interventions.
Consequently, the NLSIU was one of the first institutions in the country to introduce the five-year integrated law degree at the undergraduate level with the commencement of the first batch in 1988.
And for over 30 years now, the University has irrefutably remained a leader in the field of legal education in the country. This long-standing record has been possible due to the strong collaborations between legal academics, the Bar, the Bench, and the State Government of Karnataka.
About the book: Acts of Media: Law and Media in Contemporary India, New Delhi: Sage, 2022
Acts of Media brings together contributions from leading academics, lawyers, researchers and policy experts about contemporary India and Sri Lanka. This book seeks to consolidate a field of multidisciplinary work around media technologies that intersect with legal scholarship.
The approaches to law and media taken in this volume challenge us to think outside of traditional disciplinary descriptions. Rather than approaching the law as being outside of, and constantly catching up with the media, the contributors of this book view law and media as being deeply intertwined.
Speakers
Siddharth Narrain is a lawyer and legal scholar working in the field of public law and socio-legal studies. He is currently a Scientia PhD Candidate, the Faculty of Law & Justice, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney. Siddharth has a BA LLB (Hons) degree from NLSIU, a PG Diploma in journalism from ACJ, Chennai, and an LLM from Harvard Law School. He has also co-edited (with Dr Mayur Suresh) The Shifting Scales of Justice: The Supreme Court in Neoliberal India (Orient BlackSwan, Hyderabad, 2014).
Prof. Ravi Sundaram co-founded the Sarai program at the CSDS along with Ravi Vasudevan and the Raqs Media Collective. Sarai grew to become one of India’s best-known experimental and critical research sites on media. Along with colleagues, Sundaram co-edited the Sarai Reader series, The Public Domain (2001), The Cities of Everyday Life (2002), Shaping Technologies (2003), and Crisis Media (2004). Sundaram wrote Pirate Modernity: Media Urbanism in Delhi (2010) and edited No Limits: Media Studies from India (Delhi, 2015). His recent book Technopharmacology (with Joshua Neves, Aleena China, and Susanna Paasonen) came out from Minnesota and Meson Press (2022). He is currently finishing his next book project, Events, and Affections: post-public media circulation. Sundaram’s essays have been translated into various languages in India, Asia, and Europe.
Prof. Jinee Lokaneeta is a Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Drew University, New Jersey. Her areas of interest include law and violence, critical political and legal theory, human rights, and interdisciplinary legal studies. She is the author of The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India (2020) and Transnational Torture: Law, Violence, and State Power in the United States and India ([2011] 2012) and the co-editor with Nivedita Menon and Sadhna Arya of Feminist Politics: Struggles and Issues (2001).
Discussants:
NLS faculty members Dr. Rinku Lamba, Srijoni Sen, and Kunal Ambasta
Location
Conference Hall, Training Centre, NLSIU (Closed-doors event).
Book can be downloaded Here
Source: Lawctopus
