The judgment of the Supreme Court on 10th July in CEC v. Jan Chaukidar has been seen in may quarters as part of the Supreme Court’s concentrated effort to curb criminalisation of...
Shreya Rastogi (V Year, NLU Delhi) and I co-authored an article titled ‘Diplomatic immunity in peril’ that appeared as the lead op-ed in The Hindu yesterday (20th March). We argue...
News agencies are reporting that Ajmal Kasab was hanged to death in Pune’s Yerawada Jail at 7.30am this morning. Today’s edition of the Indian Express carries a story on its front page...
The US Supreme Cout will hear arguments today (10th October) in Fisher v. Texas concerning the constitutionality of using race as a factor in university admissions. Nine years after the...
Madhav in his response in The Hindu says — “Most seriously, though, Surendranath’s analysis ignores the crucial constitutional principle at stake here: equality of opportunity...
In this post, I intend to build on my preliminary response to the 117th Constitution Amendment Bill that appeared as an op-ed in The Hindu. Amongst all the points that P.S Krishnan has made...
In many ways it is not important to discuss who was appointed as the new President of the UK Supreme Court today. It is certainly more important to discuss who wasn’t. The fact that Baroness...
The US Supreme Court handed down its decision in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius yesterday and upheld the individual mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act. In...
(I must thank Professor Ali Qazilbash at the Department of Law and Policy, Lahore University of Management Sciences for answering some of my basic questions concerning this controversy and...
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has cited Rajendra Singh Rana v. Swami Prasad Maurya (February 2007) and Jagjit Singh v. State of Haryana (December 2006) in its order that...