A Cup of Dialogue: On Language and Justice
9 February 20267 min read
Justice is administered in language, and language is never neutral. This edition of Samvad gathered a judge, a translator and a legal-aid advocate to ask a simple question: who is heard when the law speaks in translation?
The conversation, condensed and edited here, ranged from courtroom interpretation to the vernacular life of legal ideas.
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