Join Us: Mapping the Disappearance of Rights in India | August 14, Live Webinar
What happens when hundreds of laws are viewed together instead of one at a time?
On August 15, The Polis Project is launching the Legal Atlas. It uses legal forensics to map the erosion of rights. This public resource traces legislation enacted in India since 2014 and examines how, taken together, these laws have reshaped rights, institutions and everyday life.
Rather than treating each Act, amendment or policy change as an isolated event, the Legal Atlas connects them across sectors and over time: from citizenship, labour and criminal law to welfare, environmental governance and digital infrastructure. The project asks what becomes visible when we look at a decade of lawmaking as a single political landscape. How rights, communities, livelihoods and ecosystems can gradually be made to disappear through the ordinary machinery of law and administration.
To mark the launch, we’re hosting a webinar on August 14 at 7:30 PM IST / 10 AM ET.
Speakers:
Suchitra Vijayan, Founder and Executive Director, The Polis Project
Aabha Muralidharan, researcher and co-author of the Legal Atlas
Raaz, researcher
Andrew Pavamani, data consultant and developer of the Legal Atlas
The team will walk through the Atlas, explain how it was built, discuss some of the patterns the research uncovered, and show how journalists, researchers, students and civil society organisations can use it in their own work.
Please register here.
We hope to see you soon!