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Month: January 2008

Are Indian Court Judgments Copyrightable?

On January 31, 2008 By Shamnad Basheer In Uncategorized

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 …

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The Harbhajan verdict: Why Level 2.8 charge against him fails to carry conviction

On January 31, 2008 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

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 …

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The Organ Trade Debate on IBNLive

On January 30, 2008 By Dilip Rao In Uncategorized

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 …

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Digitising Legal Scholarship – II

On January 30, 2008 By Tarunabh Khaitan In Uncategorized

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 …

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The reach of the Indian State and Legal System in Rural India: Findings of an MIDS study

On January 30, 2008 By Arun Thiruvengadam In Uncategorized

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 …

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‘Pith and Substance’ in the Characterisation of Statutes: A Comparative Study

On January 29, 2008 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

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 …

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Republic Day Awards: Why Balaji Raghavan needs to be reconsidered

On January 28, 2008 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

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 …

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Supreme Court Admissions (to be heard or simply read)

On January 27, 2008 By Nick Robinson In Uncategorized

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 …

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Are Youth Bulges the Root Cause of Terrorism?

On January 27, 2008 By Dilip Rao In Uncategorized

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 …

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Stock Market Turmoil and the Role of Regulation

On January 27, 2008 By Umakanth Varottil In Uncategorized

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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