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The Centre for Public Interest Law provides an institutional space for research and advocacy on issues of public interest. It aims to bring together students and faculty at JGLS, with practitioners, lawyers and activists from outside to build empirical projects and policy interventions. CPIL is also mandated to offer clinical courses that focus on issues of socio-economic empowerment, equality and inclusion.
The Centre offers an ideal point of collaboration and partnership with international and national projects, which involve empirically sound public interest research and advocacy.
In the past, CPIL has been the fulcrum for legal clinics focusing on projects to help low-income individuals and expanding their legal skills. The Centre’s first project focused on poverty in Haryana. The project studied the causes and consequences of poverty to establish ways to provide relief to low-income individuals, and allowed students the opportunity to engage with legal issues surrounding poverty, including food security, homelessness and basic affronts to human dignity. From 2017 to 2020, CPIL provided space for an ambitious empirical research on housing discrimination in Delhi and Mumbai. In 2018-19, CPIL hosted a legal clinic of hate crime and criminal justice system.
CPIL is currently offering the year-long Clinic on Citizenship and Statelessness where the students are developing research outputs on citizenship issues in India and assessing the citizenship determination framework under international law. The recordings of the guest lectures delivered at the Clinic can be accessed through our website and YouTube.
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CPIL has released its Securing Citizenship report on India’s legal obligations towards precarious citizens and stateless persons. The report reviews and comments on the key contemporary legal issues pertaining to citizenship and statelessness in India. The report can be accessed here.
To foster critical public engagement with the report, CPIL is hosting a series of events and symposia in collaboration with Parichay – The Blog. The flagship event will be a webinar, on 5th December 2020 from 6:00 to 7:30 PM (IST). The distinguished panelists below will discuss the key themes of the report.
Amal de Chickera | Co-Founder & Co-Director, Institute on Statelessness & Inclusion
Sujata Ramachandran | Research Associate, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo
Oliullah Laskar | Advocate, Gauhati High Court and Founding Member, Right to Nationality & Citizenship Network
The discussion will be moderated by Mohsin Alam Bhat – Associate Professor & Executive-Director, Centre for Public Interest Law.
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Write to us at cpil@jgu.edu.in and mabhat@jgu.edu.in.