01128nam a22001337a 4500 533151 533151 260427b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Nasif, Syed Mohammed 60264 Performative doctrinal compliance: The epistemological bankruptcy of INDIAN legal academia Economic & Political Weekly 61(8), Feb 21, 2026: p.10-12 Indian legal scholarship operates as a self-referential system where academic articles appear in merely 0.65% of the Supreme Court judgments. Simultaneously, 94% of judicial citations reference foreign journals, and 88% of university-recommended Indian journals are predatory. Institutional pressures reward publication volume over empirical rigour, which confines scholars to textual analysis, leaving systemic discrimination, registry manipulation, and bail disparities unexamined. The discipline requires immediate reorientation towards courtroom ethnography and quantitative methods.- Reproduced https://www.epw.in/journal/2026/8/law-and-society/performative-doctrinal-compliance.html Economic & Political Weekly AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 408322 IIPA IIPA 2026-04-27 61(8), Feb 21, 2026: p.10-12 AR138662 2026-04-27 AR