There has been a lot of news – and controversy – lately about the Constitution (99th amendment) Bill that would replace the current judicial collegium with a judicial appointments...
With almost no news attention a three judge bench of the Supreme Court agreed last week that a petition challenging the Right to Education Act should be heard by five-judges later this year. As many...
Sidharth Chauhan has this piece out in Bar & Bench on assessing teacher performance in law schools. As he points out although there are many excellent law teachers in Indian law schools there are...
Implementation challenges are one of the most pressing legal problems in India today. There are many laws and policies on the books that in reality are under-implemented (often dramatically), whether...
Some readers might be interested in Livelaw’s interview with George Gadbois, a contributor to this blog, who talks about his book “Judges of the Supreme Court of India: 1950-1989”...
Lawyers in India are known for frequently missing scheduled hearings, not being prepared, and unscrupulous billing practices. This recent op-ed of mine in the Hindu highlights some of these...
There was a recent post on ICONnect by David Landau describing how the Colombian Constitutional Court has struck or read down several Constitutional amendments there. Perhaps even more than...
The Law, Governance, and Development Initiative at Azim Premji University has a two year post open for a Graduate Fellow. Please see this link for more details. Please note that the original deadline...
There is a new blog up – Polity in India: Observations on Legal and Political Developments in India – that might be of interest to some readers. A number of the contributors are lawyers...