Posted on behalf of the Centre for Law and Policy Research In 2017, the Centre for Law and Policy Research has set up a website (presently in beta version) on the Supreme Court of India called the...
Guest Post by Goutham Shivshankar A recent development in Indian environmental jurisprudence, has been the grant of legal personhood to nature, or more accurately, several natural geographical...
Guest Post by Venkat Iyer A cliché that is often employed when marking the demise of an eminent personality is that the event represents “the end of an era”. In many cases the use of such language...
Guest Post by Venkat Iyer To say that there has been an alarming fall in the standards of competence and integrity among judges in India in recent decades would, as an exercise in understatement, be...
100 LEGAL LUMINARIES OF INDIA, no author stated, LexisNexis, New Delhi, 2016, pp 470, Price: Rs 5,995.00 (hbk), ISBN: 978-93-5143-757-4. Even by the standards of vanity publishing, this book will...
Guest Post by Charanya Kumaran, Advocate, New Delhi Recently, a Constitution Bench of 9 judges of the Supreme Court of India delivered a judgment on validity of entry tax legislations enacted by...
Every few years, a political circus convenes at the United Nations to elect judges of the International Court of Justice. The process is politicized, and a failure to admit this would be naïve. At...