[Continued from Part I] 2. The 1996 Decision a) Facts, Laws, Reasons In order to construe in its proper perspective the Supreme Court’s decision in Keshub Mahindra v. State of MP ((1996) 6 SCC...
Sujit Choudhry, one of the leading experts on comparative constitutional law, will be presenting a paper on the Naz decision (“How To Do Comparative Constitutional Law in India: Naz Foundation...
Readers who have been following the debate on the Prevention of Torture Bill with us will be interested in Arun Ferreira’s recent article in the EPW, which, reflecting the concerns already...
Frontline has covered the verdict convicting & sentencing the 8 accused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster case comprehensively. Apart from my articles and interview with Himanshu Rajan Sharma, readers...
We bring you a guest post from two dynamic legal academics, Prabhash Ranjan and Daniel Mathew. Both are assistant professors at NUJS Kolkata, with Prabhash being on temporary leave to finish his PhD...
1. Introduction Most controversies involving the law have shown some broad conformance to certain broad parameters. Take for instance the Binayak Sen issue. Here the stance of civil society was...
For those of you who endured the three-hour-plus gore fest that is ‘Raajneeti’, there are deeper insights than the film’s hackneyed ending allows for. In this opinion piece in...
I think this would be a great opportunity for a recent law graduate, and perhaps a nice alternative to clerking for the more politically minded:PRS Legislative Research is seeking exceptional, highly...
The Alternative Law Forum is marking the tenth anniversary of its founding by organising a public discussion between Professor Upendra Baxi and Justice A.P. Shah, former Chief Justice of the Delhi...
*Bringing clarity on reservations: Why I think the recent judgments in the cases of Union of India v. Ramesh Ram and Dr.Krishnamurthy v. Union of India bring clarity to the affirmative action debate...