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Menaka Guruswamy (born 27 November 1974) is a Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India. She was the B.R. Ambedkar Research Scholar and Lecturer at Columbia Law School, New York from 2017 to 2019. Guruswamy has been visiting faculty at Yale Law School, New York University School of Law and University of Toronto Faculty of Law.
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Mar 6, 2019 · In the corridors of India’s Supreme Court, Menaka Guruswamy, 44, has a reputation for being a fearless fighter. As one of the lawyers who argued against Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, she...
Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju, who won a landmark LGBTQ rights case in India, are two of the most influential people in 2019, Priyanka Chopra writes.
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Menaka Guruswamy: How not to reform Criminal Code. September 16,2023 07:30:27 AM. New Bill enables seizure of movable and immovable assets as ‘proceeds of crime’ under general criminal law — without any of the necessary procedural safeguards writes:
Menaka Guruswamy successfully argued against a colonial-era law that criminalized gay sex in India. Credit: Maurice Weiss
Dr. Menaka Guruswamy is a Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India. Through her litigation practice, she has successfully sought reform of the bureaucracy in the country through fixed tenure, defended federal legislation that mandates that all private schools admit disadvantaged children, and most recently overturned section 377 the ...
Oct 31, 2018 · The historic Sept. 6, 2018 decision was a stunning reversal for a court that just five years earlier ruled against LGBT Indians, and stories of fear and discrimination from individual petitioners is what seemed to turn the tide, said Menaka Guruswamy.
Mar 26, 2020 · Menaka Guruswamy, a senior advocate at the Supreme Court of India, is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute. In 2019, she was named to Foreign Policy magazine’s list of 100 most influential Global Thinkers and, with Arundhati Katju, named one of Time magazine’s 2019 list of 100 most influential people.
