Socio-Legal Review

socio-legal review (slr) is a bi-annual open access, student-edited, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal published by the national law school of india university, bangalore. first published in 2005 with the help of a grant from the modern law review, slr has carried articles by luminaries in the legal and social fields, including roger cotterrell, w.t. murphy, werner menski, asghar ali engineer, pratiksha baxi and gina heathcote. slr has also been cited by the supreme court of india multiple times including the cases of justice ks puttaswamy and anr v. union of india and ors (2018) and joseph shine v. union of india (2018). we subscribe to an expansive view on the interpretation of “law and society” thereby keeping its criteria for contributions simply that of high academic merit, as long as there is a perceivable link. this would include not just writing about the role played by law in social change, or the role played by social dynamics in the formulation and implementation o