Mayur Suresh and Siddharth Narrain have produced a fantastic volume on taking stock of the last two decades of the Supreme Court of India. Titled, The Shifting Scales of Justice: The Indian Supreme Court in Neoliberal India , the volume includes essays by Aditya Nigam, Usha Ramanathan, Nivedita Menon, Varun Gauri, Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Madhav Khosla, Arun Thiruvengadam, Phillipe Cullet and Ujjwal Kumar Singh. The blog will carry a more detailed discussion on the volume soon. Stay posted.
The Judicial Nineties
Further reading
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