Welcome to the current issue of the Journal of Indian Law and Jurisprudence (JILJ). In this issue, we present the latest research and developments, including cutting-edge studies, reviews, and perspectives that contribute to the advancement of these critical fields.
Below you will find the articles published in the current issue. Each article has been carefully reviewed and selected based on its quality, relevance, and contribution to the field. We invite you to explore the latest insights and findings from researchers around the world.
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- Volume 2(Issue 2) JULY – DECEMBER 2025
Research Articles
Analyzing Post-2016 Polish Constitutional Court Rulings Through the Lens of Populist Legal Reasoning
Vol.2(2); Pages:1-9. Published on October 2025
Abstract
The paper critically evaluates some of the decisions made by the Polish Constitutional Court since 2016, which should be characterized as the development of what could be called populist jurisprudence. The analysis examines the emergent legal reasoning, institutional independence and constitutional interpretation in this broader background of a shift of Polish politics towards populism. Through an examination of some of the landmark cases on the issue of judicial independence, rule of law, and the separation of powers, the paper reveals some trends that could both indicate the abandonment of liberal constitutionalism in favor of a more majoritarian, executive-driven system of judicial storytelling. The study adds value to the continued discussion of the problem of democratic backsliding, instrumentalism of law, the role of constitutional courts in modern populist systems.
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Reimagining Legal Constitutionalism in the Climate Crisis: A Realist Approach to Transnational Environmental Governance
Vol.2(2); Pages:10-18. Published on October 2025
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Our contemporary, age of increasing climate crisis, presents challenges to the traditional forms of constitutionalism, which possess diminishing capacity to respond to cross-border and increasingly urgent nature of the environmental issues. To transform transnational law into an ecological possibility, this article develops a legal realist approach to law to consider transnational law in light of the necessity of ecology with a sense of the ongoing transformation of the relationship between the national constitution, international standards, and ad hoc regimes of governance. This approach will make legal mechanisms adaptive by basing constitutional norms on lived environmental realities, instead of focusing on abstract formalism, which has been unable to adapt to ecological change in time. The article is also a criticism of the inflexibility of the traditional legal frameworks in dealing with the planetary emergency, proposing a more practical and pluralistic approach to the suggestion of legal authority over jurisdictions. Finally, it also offers a resetting of constitutionalism in order to grant the legality of a responsive, inclusive, and ecology-sensitive structure.
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Investigating the Interplay between Emerging Governance Models, Legal Frameworks, and Constitutional Dynamics
Vol.2(2); Pages:19-25. Published on October 2025
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Recent interactions between innovative governance structures, law and constitutional ideals in the European Union are discussed in this paper. It studies the ways of interaction between the non-traditional forms of governance, like soft law, multi-level regulation, network-based policymaking, and the EU legal order and traditions of constitutional law. The paper brings to the fore the stresses and complements involving pliability in governmental control and the requirement of democratic justification, lawful responsibility, and constitutional lucidity. The study questions the impact of these changes on the role and power of the EU institutions and member states by relying on a multidisciplinary approach, suggesting that the future of the integration process, the rule of law, and the constitutional equilibrium in the Union brings up urgent questions.
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Traditional Indian Hermeneutics and Their Importance in Today’s Society
Vol.2(2); Pages:26-31. Published on October 2025
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This paper aims at discussing the origin of the classical Indian school of hermeneutics, especially those reflected by the schools of Mimamsa, Nyaya and Dharmashastra, and some of the ways in which their schools of thought approach the process of interpretation as applied in different fields of law, ethics, and interpretation of scriptures. The paper negotiates the subtle reasoning and philosophical intricacy of the ancient structures of textual interpretation lakshana (implication), artha (meaning), and vyakhyana (commentary) by examining them. The experiment also assesses the contemporary value of these antique instruments of interpretation in the modern pluralistic legal as well as social cultural environment, particularly in constitutional interpretation, policy making process, multiculture governance etc. The paper ends with the suggestion that the incorporation of classical Indian models of interpretation would supplement modern jurisprudence, create dialogue between cultures, and assist in making ethics-based determinations in the professional areas of modernity.
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First-Ever Battle Between Justice and Formalism in India’s Supreme Court’s Social Justice
Vol.2(2); Pages:32-40. Published on October 2025
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The creation of the Social Justice Bench by the Supreme Court of India is a first of its kind in the history of Indian judiciary being a direct embodiment of social justice at the constitutional level. This bench was meant to accelerate the process of cases involving the disadvantaged and powerless members of the society, thus making the ideals of distributive justice functional. Nevertheless, it also revealed one very important tensions in jurisprudence: the antagonism between strict legal formalism and active seeking of substantially developed justice. In this paper, the author examines this first challenge to the Indian legal discourse, and suggests as to how, by focusing on the heart of the matter, the Social Justice Bench transformed the accepted adjudicative priorities by relocating the importance of compassion, human dignity and constitutional morality over formal procedural technicalities.
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