Tag: Justice
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When Outcomes Tempt the Law: A Jurisprudential Reading of Justice in The Juror
[By Rohit Rohilla, Faculty and Mentor, LiveLaw Academy] In the 1996 thriller The Juror, one of the most intellectually arresting moments does not occur in the courtroom but inside the jury deliberation room. The scene is deceptively simple: a group of ordinary citizens must decide the fate of a man accused of a violent crime.…
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Encounter Killings and the Erosion of Legal Authority
[By Apoorv Sonkar, Fourth Year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) student at NLIU, Bhopal] Encounter killings in India frequently receive public approval, and the reasons for this reaction are not difficult to identify. The legal system often moves slowly, and justice delivered after prolonged delay rarely satisfies public expectations of accountability. Encounters, by contrast, appear to offer…
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Adjudication, Neutrality, and the Jurisprudence of Imagination
[By Rohit Rohilla, Faculty and Mentor, LiveLaw Academy] A brief moment in popular culture often captures with unusual clarity what jurisprudence has spent centuries attempting to explain: how judges decide cases, what neutrality means, and whether law can ever be detached from social life. In A Time to Kill (a 1996 American legal drama film…