One of the things an outsider notices about the Indian judiciary is how much it is covered in the news. A bevy of news cameras seem permanently stationed outside the Court complex to give reporters...
I recently did this interview for IConnect on the 121st amendment that creates the National Judicial Appointments Commission (although I warn you the quality of my webcam leaves something to be...
For those interested, this is my India Today review of Justice Leila Seth’s new book Talking of Justice. I think one of the great roles of judges of any court is to educate citizens about the...
I recently posted on SSRN this piece on India’s judicial architecture. A revised version of it will be published in the upcoming Oxford Handbook on the Indian Constitution, which will contain...
The Section on Law and South Asian Studies of the Association of American Law Schools invites papers for its session during the 2015 AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, which is scheduled for...
The Board of Editors of Trade, Law and Development [TL&D] is pleased to invite original, unpublished manuscripts for publication in the Winter ‘14 Issue of the Journal (Vol. 6, No. 2)...
One of the prominent theories of why the Indian Supreme Court is so powerful when compared to other courts around the world is that its rise mirrored the rise of coalition politics in India in the...
Sudhir Krishnaswamy and Rajgopal Saikumar had this interesting piece in the Hindu this weekend cautioning the judiciary against Public Interest Litigation that is used by groups already well...