L&J's Gender Justice: Contemporary Developments - Edition 2025
| Author : | V.K Ahuja |
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L&J’s Gender Justice: Contemporary Developments (Edition 2025) is a timely and analytical legal work examining the evolving concept of gender justice in India. The book explores recent legislative reforms, judicial pronouncements, constitutional principles, and socio-legal developments impacting gender equality and protection of rights.
It offers critical insights into issues such as women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, workplace equality, sexual harassment laws, family law reforms, and intersectional justice, making it a valuable resource for law students, academicians, advocates, judicial service aspirants, and researchers.
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L&J’s Gender Justice: Contemporary Developments (Edition 2025) is a comprehensive and forward-looking legal work that critically examines the evolving framework of gender justice in India in light of recent legislative reforms, constitutional interpretations, and landmark judicial pronouncements. This book provides an in-depth understanding of how law responds to changing social realities, emerging gender identities, and the continuing struggle for equality, dignity, and non-discrimination.
The book explores the concept of gender justice as a constitutional mandate, drawing from Articles 14, 15, 16, and 21 of the Constitution of India, while analysing how courts have expanded these principles through progressive interpretation. It covers significant developments relating to women’s rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, workplace equality, reproductive rights, family law reforms, sexual harassment laws, domestic violence, and protection against gender-based violence. The discussion reflects contemporary socio-legal debates and the dynamic nature of gender jurisprudence in India.
Special attention is given to recent Supreme Court and High Court judgments that have shaped modern gender justice discourse, including cases on marital rights, bodily autonomy, gender identity, reservation and affirmative action, workplace safety, and access to justice. The book also examines important statutes such as laws relating to sexual harassment, domestic violence, criminal law reforms, labour and employment protections, and family welfare legislation, highlighting their practical impact and judicial interpretation.
In addition to substantive law, the book adopts a socio-legal and interdisciplinary approach, integrating perspectives from human rights law, international conventions, feminist legal theory, and comparative jurisprudence. It discusses India’s obligations under international instruments and how global developments influence domestic gender justice frameworks.
Written in clear, analytical, and accessible language, this work is particularly useful for law students, judicial service aspirants, advocates, academicians, policy researchers, and social justice practitioners. It serves both as an academic resource and a practical reference for understanding contemporary gender issues through a legal lens.
L&J’s Gender Justice: Contemporary Developments (Edition 2025) stands out as an essential reference for anyone seeking to understand the present and future direction of gender justice in India, making it highly relevant for legal education, competitive examinations, research, and policy discourse.
