Srinagar, Sept. 1 -- The relevance of history for students pursuing law degrees has acquired urgency in the contemporary period across the world from the United States, where the murder of George Floyd sparked an international crisis, to India, where contentious debates on citizenship law and farm laws have entered civil society. The idea of "art for art's sake" no longer holds, and questions of authorial intent and audience interaction have brought about fundamental shifts. In law, this paradigm shift is exemplified by the concept of intersectionality proposed by the African American law professor Kimberle Crenshaw. In fact, Crenshaw's framework has informed activism on both sides of the Atlantic, signaling its importance in the human sc...