Guest Post by Manish G. On 22.08.2013, the Supreme Court Registry issued a notice listing certain pending matters before a Constitution Bench that will commence hearings w.e.f. 03.09.2013. The...
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court gave a disturbing judgment in Devender Pal Singh Bhullar v. NCT, Delhi, stating in essence that “terror” convicts on death row have fewer or lesser...
Guest Post by Kalyani Ramnath Manu Bhagavan’s ‘The Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World’ provides a compelling account of India’s engagement with international institutions from the...
Continuing the conversation on the death penalty, here is an interesting post by Vrinda Bhandari on the Bhullar case and its implications both for the rarest of rare case doctrine, as well as for the...
A guestpost by Mrinal Satish, Associate Professor, National Law University, Delhi. The horrific gang rape incident in Delhi has led to demands for amending the law to provide for more stringent...
The National Law School of India Review is now accepting submissions for its upcoming issue – Volume 24(1).The National Law School of India Review (NLSIR) is the flagship law journal of the...
I have co-authored this post with Mrinal Satish, JSD Candidate at Yale Law School. The Supreme Court’s decision this week in Aruna Shanbaug v. Union of India raises important questions about the...
The Law and Technology Committee (elTek) of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore is hosting ‘Consilience’, a conference where contemporary issues of critical relevance in the field...
My summary of all the opinions in the Babri Masjid decision can be found here. The judgment poses a fascinating array of questions. There has already been strident criticism as well as cautious...
In an earlier post, I had mentioned that the Ministry of Home Affairs has posted a draft of the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2010 for suggestions from the public. A group of us at NLS came together...