In a very interesting copyright case, the Supreme Court of India recently ruled that there can be no copyright in the raw text of court judgments/decisions. Well, we don’t exactly need a court to tell …
Continue readingMonth: January 2008
The Harbhajan verdict: Why Level 2.8 charge against him fails to carry conviction
I had suggested in my last post that the speculation that Harbhajan Singh might be imposed only fine in lieu of match-ban by the Appeals Commisioner Justice John Hansen was wrong because for a level …
Continue readingThe Organ Trade Debate on IBNLive
In light of the ongoing illegal kidney trade scandal, CNN-IBNLive had a debate on the question of organ trade. Some interesting points were made by the anchor in support of legalizing it including the right …
Continue readingDigitising Legal Scholarship – II
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post on the sorry state of digital archives of legal scholarship in India. Since then, I have had many responses on archives and searches that do exist …
Continue readingThe reach of the Indian State and Legal System in Rural India: Findings of an MIDS study
Today’s Hindu features an article by two academics from the Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS) which reports the findings of an interesting study conducted by the institute. The question the researchers were concerned with …
Continue reading‘Pith and Substance’ in the Characterisation of Statutes: A Comparative Study
Professor Tony Blackshield, Professor Emeritus at Macquarie University, will deliver a lecture on the above subject at a seminar being organised by the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New …
Continue readingRepublic Day Awards: Why Balaji Raghavan needs to be reconsidered
This year’s R-Day awards, as usual, have become controversial. If the non-award of Bharat Ratna was preceded by open lobbying by almost all sections of political spectrum, not all the names of the awardees in …
Continue readingSupreme Court Admissions (to be heard or simply read)
In my last post, I questioned the wisdom of certain filing rules (or non-rules) regarding page limits and annexure requirements at the Supreme Court. I think the lack of better defined rules on these two …
Continue readingAre Youth Bulges the Root Cause of Terrorism?
Arundhati Roy has a new article published in Outlook (it says it is an excerpt of her lecture). This one is not only longer than her previous write-up ‘Scandal in the Palace’ (which was debated …
Continue readingStock Market Turmoil and the Role of Regulation
Riding the downward tide of the global capital markets, Indian stock prices too tumbled 1,408 points on Monday, January 21, 2008 making investors poorer by $155 billion in a single day. The rout continued on …
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