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SOCH is a legal research initiative that encourages site-specific inquiry to document and explore the everyday operations and conditions of our legal system.

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SOCH Fellowship for Law Students

temp.mag x Awaaz Leadership Labs

In January 2025, we invited 15 7 law students across India to choose a site they associate with law and justice in their neighbourhood, and return to it regularly over three six months. We’re curious about the complex nature of things and the mundane routines that often reveal themselves to us over time.

This pilot study was on for an initial phase a year and culminated in public art + research exhibits at the sites of research ****in March & April 2026 ****.

On Sunday we would to share progress, discuss our findings, and learn from artists, lawyers and storytellers about their practices.

These included guest sessions with: Sruthin, Keerthana, Nancy, Abhishek, Bhaskar, Veera & Seher, Suyash, Alisha

To learn more or collaborate, write to us:

Tammanna & Rohit [email protected]

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• Site of study: Exploring the site as a whole offers contextual clues and direct information about systems of justice, power and information at play.
• Method of inquiry: The process of gathering data and insights borrows from how ethnographers and artists observe and investigate felt-seen-lived experiences.
• Publish findings: Field notes, soundscapes, photos, videos, documents, and other artefacts through which data has been recorded are exhibited to tell the story of a place and time. </aside>

🦆 Sites of Research

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The first cohort of SOCH Fellows are supported by The Chambers of Bharat Chugh.

We travelled with SOCH to Jaipur for the Justicemakers Mela in Dec 2025 and to Bangalore for the IndiaFOSS conference in Sept 2026. It was an opportunity to share the work with the law and justice community, and also the open source community which is how we want to think about the research and data.

zine published for IndiaFOSS 2026

zine published for IndiaFOSS 2026

About us

✏️ site-specific 🔍 qualitative 📕 open

SOCH is a collective effort to document the everyday operations and conditions of our legal systems. The data collected from site studies is made open to students, organisations, lawyers, judges, policymakers, researchers, and all interested individuals.

The fellowship contributes to this larger effort. It emerged as an idea over conversations between Tammanna and Rohit, bringing together elements of both our interests and work.

temp.mag produces research and media that integrates place-based knowledge creation into decision-making frameworks and evidence-building practices. It aims to document the sights, sounds, colour, moods, and texture of a given space to learn more about how it works, and why it works the way it does.

Do you have an idea for a long-term study or evidence-building project? Write to Tammanna [email protected]

Awaaz Leadership Labs enables a new generation of law students and legal professionals to build innovative solutions and advance social justice. It’s approach combines creative pedagogies, capacity building, and creating a community of changemakers to nurture emerging leadership in law schools and legal fraternity.

Schools and students can write to Rohit at [email protected] to host programs with ALL.