Bangalore Legal Forum

Bangalore Legal Forum is a monthly series of panel discussions hosted at the Bangalore International Centre by Manipal Law School in collaboration with the National Law School of India University, St. Joseph's College of Law and Christ Law School. The panel discussions are geared toward fostering legal knowledge sharing and collaboration between Bangalore's legal education institutions and industry, improving public legal awareness and access to thoughtful legal discourse, and creating a collaborative legal community across the city.

The inaugural session was a panel discussion on "Free Speech and Internet Regulation in India" with Sarayu Natarajan, Pranesh Prakash, Prateek Waghre and Sachin S. held on 23 April 2025. The conversation encompassed topics such as the IT Act, internet shutdowns, content blocking on social media, disinformation, hate speech, artificial intelligence, labour in the digital public, the relationship between technology, design, and law, and effective public policy interventions. We are grateful to our speakers for an interesting and generative discussion and hope this will be the first of many.

Follow the whole discussion here: https://youtu.be/6Ml7LAmizco?si=XN0vlxof-XtDuI4v