About Us – Alternative Law Forum SUPPORT THE FIGHT TO UPHOLD CONSTITUTIONAL VALUES Your contribution will help sustain our efforts in providing subsidised legal assistance and initiating and participating in advocacy efforts to realise the imagination of a society based on the tenets of the Constitution. MAKE YOUR DONATION In compliance with tax regulations, donations from Indian nationals are required to be collected separately. If you are an Indian citizen and/or have an Indian passport, please click the following button to securely donate to ALF. DONATE NON-INDIAN CITIZENS If you are not an Indian national and are interested to donate to ALF, please write to communications (at) altlawforum.org. Alternative Law Forum ABOUT ALTERNATIVE LAW FORUM ALF was started in March, 2000, by a collective of lawyers with the belief that there was a need for an alternative practice of law. We recognize that a practice of law is inherently political. We are committed to a practice of law which will respond to issues of social and economic injustice. Over the past few years ALF has grown from being a legal service provider to becoming a space that integrates alternative lawyering with critical research, alternative dispute resolution, pedagogic interventions and more generally maintaining sustained legal interventions in various social issues. We are also committed to an inter disciplinary interrogation of the law using creative forms. ALF perceives itself simultaneously as a space that provides qualitative legal services to marginalized groups, as an autonomous research institution with a strong interdisciplinary approach working with practitioners from other fields, as a public legal resource using conventional and unconventional forms of creating access to information, as a centre for generating quality resources that will make interventions in legal education and training, and as finally a platform to enable collaborative and creative models of knowledge production. OUR TEAM Law, Legality and Power: ALF Reader Watch this 2-part video of Arvind Narrain’s interview from 2015 on how the role of Alternative Law Forum was imagined. Alternative Law Forum GET IN TOUCH: 122/4 Infantry Road, Next to Balaji Art Gallery, Bangalore, India 560001 (Nearest bus stop: Shivajinagar) Unless explicitly stated, all the material on this website can be used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial India 2.5 license.