Freedom of Speech and Expression (Dr. Abhinav Chandrachud)

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Lockdown Lecture Series, Dr. Abhinav Chandrachud
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2020
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In this webinar organized by Rishit Vimadalal for the Lockdown Lecture Series, Advocate (India) and legal scholar Dr. Abhinav Chandrachud discusses the breadth and scope of the right to freedom of speech and expression in India from pre-constitutional to contemporary times. The broad themes spanned by the webinar are: the law of prior restraints; the law of sedition in India; the concerns about the propensity for laws pertaining to and regulating free speech and expression to be changed during pandemics such as the COVID-19; Constituent Assembly Debates about free speech and expression as a right in India; Constitutional amendments and their implications for free speech and expression; and interesting nuances of obscenity, contempt of court, and criminal defamation.

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Lockdown Lecture Series, Abhinav Chandrachud. “Freedom of Speech and Expression”. April 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv68g8HVvTM.