The new issue (volume 21(1)) of the National Law School of India Review has been published. The entire issue is available online, and includes articles by UMAKANTH VAROTTIL (A CAUTIONARY TALE OF THE...
In a recent post, Vikram reflected on Mayawati and the BJP’s comments and studies the relationship between Dr. Ambedkar and the Congress. In this engaging article, in yesterday’s Indian...
The CBI’s recent decision to remove Ottavio Quattrocchi from its list of wanted persons has invited much debate on the CBI’s impartiality, and the role of the Attorney General who...
The Jindal Global Law School has announced its faculty. This list is here. With law schools mushrooming in India, it may be useful, in due course, to examine faculty strenghts in different law...
An article (‘Its own course‘) in the current issue of Outlook discusses the present situation at the Hidayatullah National Law University (HNLU), Raipur where the student community is on...
In a wonderful article (“Shall We Get Rid of the Lawyers?”) in the current issue of the New York Review of Books, Anthony Lewis reviews a new book Life Without Lawyers: Liberating...
For those interested, the Dept. of Sociology, University of Mumbai, is organizing the 8th Professor A. R. Desai Memorial Lecture to be held on February 20, 2009 at 3.00 p.m. at the Pherozeshah Mehta...
The term “judicial activism” is used unhesitatingly to describe the working of the Indian Supreme Court. In an attempt to understand and critique the usage of this term, I examine the...
Last week, Tarunabh posted details of two new free speech orders that had been passed. In one of the orders, the judgment of which can be found here, the Delhi High Court struck down the ban on...
Dr. Rajeev Dhavan, senior advocate and noted legal scholar, has released a new book on free speech in India titled “Publish and be Damned: Censorship and Intolerance in India” (Tulika...