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|motto = Lawyering for change<br />
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'''Alternative Law Forum''' is an Indian legal research organization started in March 2000, by [[Lawrence Liang]] and [[Arvind Narrain]]. The aim of the organization is to focus on legal research and support, integrating alternative lawyering with critical research, alternative dispute resolution, pedagogic interventions and more generally maintaining sustained legal interventions in various social issues.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://altlawforum.org/|title=Alternative Law Forum}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ncbs.res.in/HistoryScienceSociety/content/arvind-narrain|title=Arvind Narrain - History and Science of Indian Systems of Knowledge}}</ref><br />
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==Areas of work==<br />
ALF provides legal support to a wide variety of marginalized people on the basis of class, race, caste, gender, disability or sexuality. It also researches on issues of globalization, urban studies, gender and intellectual property rights. Research and advocacy on sexuality and minority related issues has been their core focus. ALF's work could be broadly listed across the following:<br />
Intellectual Property,<br />
Gender and Sexuality,<br />
Law Media and Culture,<br />
Labour,<br />
Environment, and<br />
Constitution.<br />
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==Campaigns==<br />
A few of the talks and reports that ALF has organized or produced are:<br />
Whistleblowers Protection Act 2014,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://altlawforum.org/campaigns/fri-14-mar-public-talk-by-nikhil-dey-on-the-whistleblowers-protection-act-2014/|title=Fri, 14 Mar - Public talk by Nikhil Dey on the Whistleblowers Protection Act, 2014 - Alternative Law Forum}}</ref><br />
Malnutrition,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://altlawforum.org/campaigns/report-of-the-public-hearing-at-dj-halli-bangalore-on-12-december-2013/|title=Report of the Public Hearing on Malnutrition at DJ Halli Bangalore on 12 December 2013 - Alternative Law Forum}}</ref> and<br />
Sought a ban on online pornography from the prism of freedom of speech and privacy laws.<ref>{{cite av media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JTn7Z4gSPA.|title=YouTube|publisher=}}</ref><br />
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