The Centre for Criminal Justice Reform and Research, NALSAR is organising a talk "Life and Law in Delhi's Terrorism Trials" by Dr Mayur Suresh, a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law at SOAS. In this session, the Speaker looks at another way of approaching an ethnography of the trial process. Through his ethnography of terrorism trials in Delhi, he argues that the mundane technical aspects...
The Centre for Criminal Justice Reform and Research, NALSAR is organising a talk "Life and Law in Delhi's Terrorism Trials" by Dr Mayur Suresh, a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law at SOAS. In this session, the Speaker looks at another way of approaching an ethnography of the trial process. Through his ethnography of terrorism trials in Delhi, he argues that the mundane technical aspects of the trial can engender modes of sociality within the trial process.
About the Speaker:
Mayur Suresh was awarded a PhD from Birkbeck, University of London for this thesis titled 'Terrorist' lives in Delhi's courts: An ethnography of the legal worlds of terrorism trials. This research is based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork terrorism cases that took place in Delhi's trial courts. Prior to commencing his doctoral studies, Mayur practiced law in Delhi, where he and his colleagues represented a wide variety of clients: from women in domestic violence and matrimonial cases, to trade unions in industrial relations proceedings, to property disputes, to criminal defence and anti-terror cases. He received his B.A. LL.B. (Hons) from National Law School of India and LLM from Columbia University.
Date: 24th March (Wednesday
Time: 12 PM (India Time)
Platform: Cisco Webex Platform (Downloading not required)
Event number (access code): 184 461 9686
Event password: MKbvGkFn623
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