Cell for Studies in Media Law

CALL FOR STUDENT EDITORS

The Cell for Studies in Media Law is thrilled to invite applications from all students of the 2nd-4th year for membership to the Student Editorial Board of the NLIU Journal of Media Law for the year 2020-21.

Interested students are requested to send an email stating their interest to be a member by 11:59 PM, Wednesday, 24th June at [email protected].

Applicants will be sent an article to review, along with basic parameters such as contemporary relevance, language, originality, etc., on which they would have to evaluate the given article.

The test will be conducted on 26 June 2020. The time will be duly informed.

We look forward to receiving your applications!

The Cell for Studies in Media Law is happy to announce the constitution of the Advisory and Peer Review Boards for the NLIU Journal of Media Law as follows:

BOARD OF ADVISORS:

1. Mini Chandran- Professor of English Literature in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kanpur and author of the book, "The Writer, the Reader and the State: Literary Censorship in India" published by Sage.

2. Senior Advocate Ms. Geeta Luthra

3. Abhiraj Krishna- Founding Partner of Abhiraj Krishna Associates, Mumbai. Abhiraj is a 2009 graduate of NLIU, and worked at Khaitan and Co. for nearly 7 years, before setting up his own firm.

4. Siddharth Varadarajan- Founding Editor, The Wire.

5. Pooja Patel- Partner, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas.

6. Anshuman Sakle- Partner, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas.

7. Amber Sinha- Amber is a graduate of NLSIU, Bangalore. He currently serves as the Research Director at the Centre for Internet and Society.

PEER REVIEW BOARD:

1. Shweta Mohandas- Shweta is a Policy Officer at the Centre for Internet and Society. Her areas of work and interest include Artificial Intelligence, Privacy and Intellectual Property Rights and India’s policies surrounding these issues.

2. Deepika Yadav- Deepika Yadav is a 2018 graduate from National Law Institute University, Bhopal, and is registered as an advocate with the Bar Council of Delhi. She was a member ofthe general corporate team at Trilegal (July 2018 to September 2019), and is currently engaged in a private research project focused on international financial regulations.

3. Akriti Bopanna- Akriti is a lawyer by training, having done her undergraduation from Symbiosis Law School and LLM in International Law. Subsequent to that, she worked at the Centre for Internet and Society for 2 years on issues of free speech and internet governance. She now works at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy in their Karnataka office, focusing on issues of law and policy in the state.

4. Arindrajit Basu- Arindrajit Basu is a Research Manager at the Centre for Internet and Society with the Cyber Security Project. His work at CIS focuses largely on developing normative frameworks for the regulation of emerging technologies internationally and conceptualizing thestrategic role that India and other emerging economies can play in this space. His work hasappeared in The Diplomat, Economic & Political Weekly, Astropolitics and the Oxford Human Rights Hub, among others.

5. Avani Mishra- Avani Mishra is a graduate in law from the National Law Institute University, Bhopal. She qualified the Company Secretary course with an All India Rank 1 and is a recipientof the President’s Gold Medal for her academic distinctions. She also holds a B. Com. degree with a specialization in Corporate Affairs and Administration.

6. Arpan Bannerjee- Arpan Banerjee is Assistant Professor and Executive Director of the Centrefor IP and Technology Law, Jindal Global Law School. He is also a visiting lecturer at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg. He is currently on doctoral research leave and based at UNSW, Sydney.

7. Anubhav Rajshekhar- Anubhav Rajshekhar is a 2017 graduate from National Law Institute University, Bhopal. He did his LL.M. in Law and Development from Azim Premji University (2019). His interests lie in the intersection of law and society, constitutional law, and criminal law.

8. Mira Swaminathan- Mira Swaminathan is a programme officer at Centre For Internet and Society. At CIS, she works on outputs relating to Regulatory Practices. She was a legal researcher for the Columbia Global Freedom of Expression Project and an alumni of the 19th Annenberg Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute.

9. Ira Chadha Sridhar- Ira Chadha Sridhar is an Assistant Professor at Jindal Global Law School. She is the recipientof many awards and distinctions both in her undergraduate studies at WBNUJS, Kolkata andthe University of Cambridge.

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Cell for Studies in Media Law

Grace Millane Murder Trial Exposes Dark Trend in Coverage of Violence Against Women

'The murder of Grace Millane in 2018 seized front pages of media outlets worldwide, with article after article fixated on details of her personal history. These details implied that the sexually violent nature of Millane’s death was somehow a product of her own actions, and this treatment is itself part of a much larger media trend in how violence against women is represented.'

https://thewire.in/media/grace-millane-murder-trial-media-coverage-violence-against-women

thewire.in The media presents female victims as culpable for their own brutalisation. For Grace Millane, this meant her sexual preferences were more important than the horror of her death.

India’s Role in Global Cyber Policy Formulation — The Centre for Internet and Society

The past year has seen vigorous activity on the domestic cyber policy front in India. On key issues - including intermediary liability, data localisation and e-commerce - the government has rolled out a patchwork of regulatory policies, resulting in battle lines being drawn by governments, industry and civil society actors both in India and across the globe.

https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/lawfare-arindrajit-basu-november-7-2019-indias-role-in-global-cyber-policy-formulation

cis-india.org The past year has seen vigorous activity on the domestic cyber policy front in India. On key issues—including intermediary liability, data localization and e-commerce—the government has rolled out a patchwork of regulatory policies, resulting in battle lines being drawn by governments, industry ...

It’s not the first time Iran has shut down the internet, but this time, it’s different - Access Now

A wonderful article on the internet shutdown implemented in Iran on 16 November, which discusses the reasons behind the same, and its massive repercussions on the lives of Iranians.

Follow to learn more!

https://www.accessnow.org/its-not-the-first-time-iran-has-shut-down-the-internet-but-this-time-its-different/

accessnow.org The method Iran used to carry out the shutdown diverges from a “typical” blanket shutdown and its comprehensive nature makes it harder to circumvent.

critiques mainstream media reporting of cases of gender-based violence from an intersectional feminist perspective.

The language employed by the media in reporting gender-based violence is crucial in order to ensure that the society is more sensitive to survivors and upholds their rights and dignity. However, many media practices tend to perpetuate patriarchal mindsets and r**e culture. In this light, the toolkit is a media ethics toolkit for media professionals to employ ethical journalism.

If it interests you, do take a look!

Read the report at bit.ly/GBVinMedia

We are glad to announce that the NLIU Cell for Studies in Media Law has been reconstituted for the current academic year. The members are as follows:

Convenor: Shreya Mohapatra

Co-Convenor: Ishan Chauhan

Senior Member: Harshdeep Singh Bedi

Members:

1. Tejas Hinder
2. Saqib Ali
3. Ritik Kumar Rath
4. Shubhi Singhal
5. Koustav Bhattacharya
6. Jigyasa Dubey
7. Nevadya Bhateja
8. Karan Khanduja
9. Monish Raghuwanshi
10. Utkarsh Goel
11. Rishika Jain

INDUCTION OF FIRST YEAR STUDENTS

Cell for Studies in Media Law 2019-20 invites applications from all students of the 1st year who are interested in being part of the Cell to send in a Statement of Purpose (of not more than 350 words) to [email protected] by 11:59 p.m., Friday, 9th August.

The Statement of Purpose should explain why you want to be part of the Cell and your views on how the Cell can move forward in the coming year.

Shortlisted candidates will be called for an interview in the coming week based on which the first years shall be inducted.

We look forward to receiving your applications!

APPLICATION FOR RECONSTITUTION

The Cell for Studies in Media and Law invites application for the reconstitution of the Cell for the following positions, for the academic session 2019-2020:

1. Convener (4th & 5th year)
2. Co-Convener (4th & 5th year)
3. Secretary (4th & 5th year)
4. Senior Member (4th & 5th year)
5. Members (2nd & 3rd year)

Interested students may send in their applications at [email protected] latest by 3rd July 2019 (11:59 pm). The applications must contain:
1. A copy of the updated CV.
2. Statement of Purpose (200-250 words) highlighting any previous contribution to the Cell or any work experience in the field of Media Law.

Past members who wish to retain membership are required to send an email requesting retention of the same.

The Cell For Studies in Media Law organized the 'We The Women' event, an initiative by Barkha Dutt on the 8th of April, 2019 at NLIU, Bhopal.

A program that we had very little time to prepare for and spent days working tirelessly to make it a huge success, has become an event that the entire college is talking about and we couldn't be prouder.
We worked like a well-oiled machine and the results are out there for y'all to see!

Credit must be given where its due and hence, a big shoutout to -

Iravati Singh for efficient management of the entire event, for coordinating with event heads and looking into each and every department.

Saahil Khare , Rohit Gattani , Vaibhav Shrivastava Divyam Sharma and Jhalak Shah for being amazing event heads with impeccable leadership skills.

Shreya Mohapatra , Arpita Pande and Singh who were glued to their phones and laptops the entire week, constantly coming up with ideas to publicise the event as widely as possible on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.They made sure the audience always had new and exciting content to look forward to. If your timeline was spammed by a hundred notifications from the Media Law Cell page, you know who to blame ;).

Shashank Chaddha , Priyam Jhudele Sukriti Jha and Priyal Reddy for constantly being on their toes on the day of the event. They are the reason why we could conduct the event smoothly without any unnecessary impediments.

Without a shred of doubt, we can proudly say that this was THE BEST OC EVER!

Another huge shoutout to our hard-working volunteers who worked tirelessly the whole day!

Shagun Singhal , Charvi, Mahek Gupta Vikramaditya, Himanshi, Ritik, Nupur Mishra, Shruti Mishra, Aman Vijay Singh, Unnati Bhadauria , Niyukta, Prakarsh, Utkarsh, Vidhi, Ronak, Vanshika, Lokesh, Nandini, Jeezan Riyaz Aadya, Tanya, Shreya Chandhok Koustav, Tejas Hinder, Venkatesh, Arushi Shukla Kriti Mahajan soumya singh , Mahesh, rakesh malviya, Himanshu Dixit, Harshdeep Singh Bedi and Simran Veer - TAKE A BOW, YOU GUYS! Y'all were beyond phenomenal!

We owe the next big thank you to Abhishek Solanki who came at the first call to help us record videos, even when we had to shoot late in the night.

Our Convenor Meenakshi Kumar couldn't be with us on the day of the event but made it a point to look into every minute detail before the event and lent her support and encouragement throughout.

Last but not the least, the NLIU student community that showed up in large numbers to support us! We may have missed out a few names but know that each one of you played an important role and we could have never pulled this off if it were not for your dedication and hard work! Each one of you deserves a pat on the back!

This has been an overwhelming and joyous experience for all of us. Even with the last-minute crisis situations, stress and constant pressure, we worked as a team and gave NLIU one of its best events, ever!

Here's to us, guys! We did it. :)

We The Women

Student Open Mic, Millenial Mantras for Equality, Representation and Rights, moderating the session Tara Bedi

Witnessing the indomitable spirit of Poonam Shroti !!!
A warrior in the truest sense, Poonam is an activist for the differently abled and a brittle bones disease survivor herself.
Here she is inspiring us with her tales of turning challenges into opportunities!

Happening right now!!
Come and join our panelists Shalini Singh, Lalitha Kumarmangalam, Bhakti Sharma and Jaivardhan Singh as we discuss the issue of marked absence of women in politics.

'Hum Bhopal Ki Naari Hai, Phool Nahi Chingari Hai'
Our panelists Rashida Bee and Champa Devi Shukla move us with tales of their endeavour of finding hope in the aftermath of Bhopal Gas Tragedy.

Women in uniform inspire us!!
Here we have our panelist from the forces Assistant Commander Monica Salve telling us about her tales of struggle and valor.

Is gender prism in justice overstated ?
Come join us as we hear Justice Gyan Sudha Mishra talk about opening doors to making courts more inclusive for women.

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We The Women

Our first ever campus edition is about to commence. Join us at National Law Institute University for

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Rama Solanki, the journalist from Jagran is joining us at to talk about online abuse, fake news, and much more!
Catch her at National Law Institute University on 8th April.

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Jayshree Pingle is joining us this time at to talk about why information is power in media
Catch her in action at National Law Institute University on 8th April

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Can women find ’shakti’ in politics? Bhakti Sharma , Sarpanch Barkhedi Abdullah, M.P. is joining us at at National Law Institute University on 8th April!


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Barkha Dutt

Hope you see lots of you tomorrow at National Law Institute University for