In today’s Business Standard, I have this piece which argues the current system for creating rules and regulations in India is dysfunctional – leading to inefficiency and corruption, as well as...
The Court’s recent decision to frame guidelines to regulate reporting of its proceedings raises many important issues. As Siddharth Varadarajan argues, it is both unnecessary and inconsistent...
A simply fascinating lecture on governance and much more in modern India by Pratap Bhanu Mehta.Part I: II:
I recently had an article I co-authored with Nawreen Sattar come out in the Fordham International Law Journal entitled, “When Corruption is an Emergency: ‘Good Governance’ Coups and...
India’s first compulsory licensing order in the post TRIPS patent era garnered more attention than one might have expected. The NY Times reported it, as did a host of other renowned papers...
[Continued from Part I] II. The Context 1. A Dilemma At the outset we are confronted with a dilemma of sorts: given that our primary focus is on the legal case against Assange, how much weightage...
The W.B. National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata announces, in association with Professors from the National University of Singapore, its inaugural Summer Law School Programme to be...
I. Introduction The problem with attempting a legal analysis of Julian Assange’s case is that one does not know quite where to start. If I resort to a little fanciful imagery, the facts and...
The Socio-Legal Review, the student edited peer reviewed journal of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore is holding the 2nd Annual SLR Essay Competition. Students from law schools...
The Centre for Health Law, Ethics and Technology, headed by Dipika Jain, at Jindal Global Law School has a new report out on the Impact of the Naz Foundation Judgment. Through a set of interviews it...