Concerning the Workshop
It’s centered area to have interaction these views as central to modern debates. It’s a centered four-day residential expertise designed to allow younger students to have interaction in sustained, interdisciplinary, peer-to-peer collaboration beneath the shut mentorship of skilled school and professionals. Suggestions shall be given on the papers written by the members on any matter associated to this Workshop.
All chosen members will likely be required to submit an 8,000-word draft or work-in-progress tutorial writing prematurely of the Workshop. The Workshop is open by software to younger students working to know and map the levers of political, financial, and authorized authority on the earth at present. We significantly welcome functions from students from marginalized communities. The
Workshop will likely be restricted to a cohort of as much as 20 members, enabling sustained engagement. Individuals might embody final-year undergraduate regulation college students, grasp’s college students, doctoral candidates, junior school, and early-career practitioners working on the intersection of regulation and social justice.
Journey and Lodging: The Workshop shall be organized on the campus of NALSAR Hyderabad. The College will present lodging to all chosen candidates. Journey bills from any metropolis in India to and from Hyderabad shall be reimbursed upon submission of legitimate journey tickets.
Format
The programme will likely be a 4-day residential intensive workshop, structured round:
Thematic lectures led by invited school.
Small-group workshops (pre-circulated drafts).
Targeted roundtables and discussions.
Participant-led interventions
Proposed Themes
The Workshop invitations functions from students partaking with regulation in relation to broader questions of energy, hierarchy, and information manufacturing, together with however not restricted to the next themes:
Anti-caste thought and authorized principle, together with questions of anti-subordination, critiques of neutrality and formal equality, and the methods by which caste operates as a construction of institutional energy.
Indigenous jurisprudence and authorized pluralism, together with engagements with customary regulation, non-state normative orders, and debates on recognition, autonomy, discrimination, and exclusion.
Land, forest, and useful resource governance, with a give attention to dispossession, extractive growth, and the connection between environmental justice and group rights.
Governance, and the State, together with tensions between indigenous autonomy and state authority, and types of decentralization.
Legislation, violence, and criminalization, inspecting policing, surveillance, and the position of regulation as an instrument of regulation and management over marginalized communities.
Information methods, narrative, and epistemic justice, together with the position of testimony, literature, and lived expertise in shaping authorized understanding, and the challenges of translating such information into formal authorized frameworks.
Comparative and international views, together with engagements with indigeneity throughout jurisdictions and the intersections of caste, race, and coloniality in shaping authorized and political orders.
School
The Workshop will convey collectively a curated group of students, together with authorized teachers engaged on constitutional regulation, inequality, and governance, students of anti- caste and indigenous thought, and interdisciplinary researchers throughout regulation, humanities, and social sciences.
Timeline
Utility Deadline: 15 Could 2026.
Choice Intimation: 20 Could 2026.
Full-Paper Deadline: 30 July 2026.
Workshop: 27-30 August 2026.
Utility Course of
Submit your functions on the hyperlink given on the finish of the publish earlier than the deadline.
For any question
Please contact both Dr. Anurag Bhaskar (Adjunct Professor of Legislation) or Mr. Vidhik Kumar (Analysis Affiliate) at dr.ambedkarchair@nalsar.ac.in.
