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SOCH is a multi-media project that produces credible, qualitative, primary data on the workings and ground reality of our legal systems.

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SOCH Fellowship for Law Students

temp.mag x Awaaz Leadership Labs

In January 2025, we invited 15 11 law students across India to choose a site they associate with law and justice in their neighbourhood, and return to it regularly over three 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 is ongoing for an initial phase of Feb-March-April and will culminate in a public art exhibit in August*.* Every Sunday we meet to share progress, discuss our findings, and learn from artists, lawyers and storytellers about their practices.

To learn more or collaborate, write to us:

Tammanna & Rohit [email protected]

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• Site of study: We put the place at the centre - exploring the place as a whole offers contextual clues and direct information about systems of justice, power and information at play. Currently these include physical locations, but a digital space or even an object or document of significance may be a site of research.
• Method of inquiry: The process of gathering data and insights borrows from how ethnographers and artists observe, investigate, and document the felt, seen, lived experiences of people and places.
• Publish findings: The notes, recordings, photos, documents, and other artefacts through which data has been recorded will be presented as a mixed-media exhibit that tells the story of a place and time. </aside>

🦆 Ongoing Research

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About us

✏️ credible 🔍 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.