The Centre for Policy Research is conducting a two-week Summer Workshop on Strategic Studies, that aims to bring together a group of twenty advanced graduate students, young analysts and junior...
One of the defining features of the Indian Supreme Court is its panel structure. At present it has 27 judges that on a typical day may sit in benches of two or three judges in one of over a...
Justice Dalveer Bhandari’s election as Judge of the International Court of Justice has thrown up problematic questions of propriety and legality. Raag Yadava’s earlier post highlighted...
‘A Brahmin Prime Minister whipping a Dalit leader and blaming him for the delay in creating the Constitution’ — that spin on Shankar’s cartoon is too dangerous for any...
This is an update on my earlier post on the Haj order (A Liberal Secularist Agenda for Disengagement with Religion). The interim order in Union of India v Rafique Shaikh Bhikhan by Justice Alam...
Report on the Q&A Session with a Delegation of Indian MPs at Oxford (16th April 2012) (co-authored with Dhvani Mehta) Apparently when Devi Lal, the ‘tau’ of Indian politics, was asked why he had...
I am still to see the full judgment, but media reports suggest that a bench of Justices Alam and Desai have struck down the provision for Haj subsidy as unconstitutional. If this move signals a shift...
1. A transcript of the hearings in the Naz Foundation case before the Supreme Court is available here. The 125 page document – which has clearly been put together after considerable...
We are very happy to announce that Anup Surendranath has agreed to join the blog team at LAOT. Readers who have been reading his guest posts should already be familiar with him somewhat and can look...
When narratives on the Supreme Court’s enforcement of socio-economic rights are written, the judgment of the Court upholding the constitutionality of the Right to Education Act, 2009 will probably...