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19/05/2026

Jindal Global Law School is accepting applications for the position of Lecturer/Assistant Professor for the Law and Marginalisation Clinic. This is a full-time contractual position with the Jindal Global Law School.

The Lecturer/Assistant Professor will work with the Director, CJLS to conceptualize and implement the vision and goals of their clinic. To learn more about the clinic and the role description please read the poster attached below.

You can also visit the link in our bio for more information.

Applications for the positions will be accepted until June 5, 2026. Shortlisted candidates will be notified soon after and invited to participate in an interview.

08/04/2026

Dewangi Sharma, Associate at CJLS, was a panelist at the “Making CSE Work for Youth: Creative Approaches to Sexuality Education (TeenBook x Amaze Conference).”

During the session on “Comprehensive Sexuality Education: Policy Vision and Implementation Pathways in India,” she spoke about the legal and policy framework that regulates and informs Comprehensive Sexuality Education in India, highlighting key gaps and opportunities for strengthening implementation.

02/04/2026

The Centre for Justice, Law & Society (CJLS) at Jindal Global Law School invites you to the third lecture in the 11th edition of the Law, Sexuality & Society Lecture and Conversation Series.

Theme: Critical Family Law
Lecture Title: Family Court: Site for Gender Battles
Speaker: Advocate Malavika Rajkotia
Date: 2 April 2026
Time: 4:15 PM – 5:30 PM
Venue: Imaginarium, Ground Floor, Faculty Office Buildings, JGU

This lecture explores how family courts become arenas where gendered power dynamics unfold, while questioning the assumptions embedded within existing legal frameworks. The series continues its engagement with how law shapes narratives around identity, s*xuality, and social structures, while also examining spaces of resistance.

Advocate Malavika Rajkotia, one of India’s leading family law practitioners, brings decades of experience and a critical perspective on the realities of marital disputes, gender justice, and legal practice.

Join us for an engaging conversation followed by high tea.

We look forward to your participation.

12/03/2026

“I have always been drawn to non-fiction books more, always finding it difficult to create imaginary worlds and people that the fictional stories demanded. But, last year I forced myself to read fiction books and I want to include some of the best ones I read in 2025 as my book recommendations”

Know Your Reader:

Dewangi is a lawyer and researcher committed to advancing access to justice and human rights. Before joining CJLS, she worked with the Centre for Social Justice in Chhattisgarh, supporting young social justice lawyers and paralegals to improve legal access for vulnerable communities.

Her work has engaged with issues such as gender- and caste-based violence, abortion access, custodial abuse, labour rights, and victim compensation. A graduate of ILS Law College, Pune, she previously worked as a Research Assistant at CJLS on projects examining gender diversity in the higher judiciary in India.

06/03/2026

Building conversations that matter. 🌏

This week in New Delhi, members of the SUNWAI network came together for the Social Participation for Health Convening hosted by The George Institute. The convening brings together researchers, practitioners, and community leaders to reflect on how participation, collaboration, and inclusive practices can strengthen health systems.

A highlight of the gathering was the panel “Becoming, Being, and Accessing Care: Trans Experiences of Health Systems,” hosted by the Trans Men Collective, which created space for important conversations around access, dignity, and equity in healthcare.

We’re also proud that Prof. Dipika Jain participated in the panel, contributing to the dialogue on improving health systems through inclusive and community-led approaches.

Grateful for the discussions, learning, and solidarity that continue to shape the future of health participation.

05/03/2026

The Centre for Justice, Law & Society (CJLS) at Jindal Global Law School invites you to the second lecture of the 11th edition of the Law, Sexuality & Society Lecture and Conversation Series, themed Critical Family Law.

Lecture: Inheritance, Intimacy, and Inequality: Rethinking Family Law through Property, Gender, and Power
Speaker: Dr. Komal Rajak
Date:5 March 2026 (Thursday)
Time: 4:15 PM – 5:30 PM
Venue: Zenith, Ground Floor, T3 (Opposite Examinations Office)

Join us for an engaging conversation on how property, inheritance, gender, and power shape family law and social inequalities.

☕ **High tea will be served after the lecture.**

We look forward to your participation in this critical discussion!

25/02/2026

Centre for Justice, Law and Society, Jindal Global Law School, and the Jindal School of Public Health and Human Development for the upcoming Spring 2026 Global Health Lecture Series on, ‘Critical Global Health: The Industrial Epidemic’. The first lecture in the series will be held on Thursday, 26th February 5 PM on the theme, ‘Privatization of Primary Healthcare’.

Date: Thursday, 26th February 2026
Time: 5:00 PM
Venue: Online (Zoom). Please use this link to register for the event:https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1TTLu9anTMSw3CpQDSKf7A

24/02/2026

The Centre for Justice, Law & Society (CJLS), Jindal Global Law School, invites students and colleagues to the first lecture of the Eleventh edition of the annual Law, Sexuality & Society Lecture and Conversation Series, organised on the theme Critical Family Law.

The first lecture in this series, to be delivered by Dr. Rama Srinivasan, is titled “Validating Marriages Across Cultures: Negotiating Normative Orders in North India and Germany.”

Date: 25 February 2026 (Wednesday)
Time: 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm
Venue: Imaginarium, Ground Floor, Faculty Office Buildings, JGU

The Law, Sexuality & Society Lecture and Conversation Series, organised by CJLS since 2012, seeks to advance critical conversations on the role of law in shaping narratives and dominant discourses around identity, s*x, gender, s*xuality, and family. The Eleventh edition, focusing on Critical Family Law, interrogates assumptions and silences within existing legal frameworks, including the invisibility of women’s labour, the marginalisation of q***r and non-normative kinship formations, and the limits of top-down legal reform in bringing about social transformation.

About the Speaker:
Dr. Rama Srinivasan is a trained anthropologist and the author of Courting Desire: Litigating for Love in North India. Her work examines the interaction between law, intimacy, and state power. She is currently based in Germany, where her research focuses on spousal migration and the legal validation of marriages by European state agencies.

We look forward to your participation and engagement with the lecture series.

23/02/2026

The Q***r Theory Research Cluster (QTRC), the Centre for Justice, Law and Society (CJLS), Decolonising Sexualities (Elective Course), and Q***r Studies: Foundations and Contexts (Elective Course) are pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by Dr. Sandeep Bakshi, Associate Professor of Decolonial, Postcolonial and Q***r Studies at ECHELLES/Université Paris Cité.

🗣️ Title: Q***r Violence and Coloniality of Sexuality
📅 Date: Tuesday, 24 February 2026
⏰ Time: 3:30 PM
📍 Venue: F-18, Prithviraj Jindal Academic Block (T1)

Dr. Bakshi’s work engages deeply with transnational q***r and decolonial enunciations of knowledge. His scholarship examines the entanglements of race, s*xuality, and postcoloniality. He is the co-editor of The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory (2025) and Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions (2016), among other significant contributions.

This lecture promises to be an important and timely engagement with questions of coloniality, s*xuality, and violence, offering critical insights across law, q***r studies, and postcolonial theory.

All interested students and faculty members are warmly invited to attend.

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16/02/2026

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Anmol Diwan is an Assistant Professor at Jindal Global Law School and a Research Fellow at Centre for Justice, Law and Society. He holds an LL.M. from the University of Southern California, where he focused on human rights and global health, and previously practiced as a litigation associate in New Delhi.

His work spans public health, s*xual and reproductive health rights, transgender rights, and critical constitutionalism, bringing together rigorous research and a deep commitment to justice, both inside and outside the classroom.

06/02/2026

The Centre for Justice, Law and Society (CJLS), Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, is pleased to announce the Law, Sexuality and Society Lecture & Conversation Series on the theme Critical Family Law, to be held in Spring 2026.

CJLS has hosted this series since Spring 2011. The 2026 edition seeks to critically examine the assumptions and silences embedded in existing legal frameworks—ranging from the presumed jointness of the Hindu family and the systemic invisibilisation of women’s labour within marriage, to the marginalisation of q***r, non-normative and chosen kinship formations, and the persistent belief that top-down legal reform alone can bring about meaningful social change.

By bringing together scholars, practitioners and activists, the series aims to locate the family at the intersection of constitutionalism, political economy and social reproduction, among others. It seeks to reinvigorate debates on how the family might be imagined beyond the logics of property, patriarchy, heteronormativity and purity.

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