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 …
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India’s Judicial Architecture
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 an impressive range of …
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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 January 3, …
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The Board of Editors of Trade, Law and Development [TL&D] is pleased to invite original, unpublished manuscripts for publication in the Winter ‘14 Issue of the Journal (Vol. 6, No. 2) in the form of Articles, Notes, …
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The Election and Theories of Supreme Court Behavior
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 …
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Making Public Interest Litigation More Public
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 represented in the political process who may …
Continue readingStandard Indian Legal Citation Launches
Standard Indian Legal Citation (SILC) launched earlier this week at a number of law schools in India. SILC is a legal citation system created by some recent law graduates and law students for the Indian …
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