I am pleased to welcome Vinay Sitapati, who joins us as a contributor from today. Vinay Sitapati works on the editorial board of The Indian Express, New Delhi. He writes and reports on law and …
Continue readingMonth: August 2009
New Blogger — Rohit De
I am very pleased to announce that we have a new colleague joining us here on Law and Other Things. Rohit De is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Princeton University. His …
Continue readingWhere High Court Judges Go and Come From
Yesterday’s Indian Express had this editorial questioning why High Court judges should be appointed to the same courts where they once litigated. It asks if top Indian administrative officers are rarely appointed to their home …
Continue readingCall for papers
The Editorial Board of the Indian Journal of Law & Economics, published by NALSAR, invites submissions for the 2009-10 issue in accordance with the editorial policy. The IJLE invites writings that, applying methods of economic …
Continue readingLacuna in the Right to Information Act
Since its enactment in 2005, the Right to Information Act has been lauded as a significant measure for the achievement of a more accountable and transparent government and bureaucracy. In a guest post on this …
Continue readingStrength in Numbers
This may not be the most topical issue to be blogging about presently, especially in the light of the general tenor of the posts before this, but I wanted to consider, for a moment, the …
Continue readingNew Contributors: Abhinav Chandrachud and Lawrence Liang
It gives me great pleasure to announce that Abhinav Chandrachud and Lawrence Liang have kindly agreed to join the LAOT team. Abhinav completed his LLB from Government Law College, Mumbai in 2008 and then his …
Continue readingNariman and Mehta on the Judges’ Bill
The Judges (Declaration of Assets and Liabilities) Bill 2009 is attracting a lot of attention, especially for the puzzling (and disappointing) official stance adopted on it by the judiciary (recounted in this recent post). I …
Continue readingJustice Sinha’s legacy: Strict Scrutiny, Death Penalty, Counter-majoritarianism
Update: See link to yesterday’s death penalty judgment below. Justice Sinha, arguably one of the most interesting judges on the Supreme Court today, retires on the 9th of August 2009. He has written many important …
Continue readingRS Debate on Judges (Assets and Liabilities) Bill 2009
During the debate on the now-deferred Judges (Assets and Liabilities)Bill, 2009, the Leader of the Opposition in the RS, Arun Jaitley made the point that it was perhaps the first time a Bill, before it …
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