As has been reported at Spicy IP and Legally India the Times Publishing House – which owns Times of India – is threatening to sue for defamation a 22 year old student blogger for one of...
In part I of this post I discussed how the NAC has a new proposal out for changing the process by which Ministries draft rules and legislation. In the last post I examined the process proposed for...
Last week, the National Advisory Council made a little noticed recommendation concerning what they term the pre-legislative process. The name “pre-legislative process” is a bit of a misnomer in that...
Nazdeek has a new video and press release out today on a police brutality incident in West Delhi that happened late last month. The Times of India also covered the events shortly after they occurred...
Jindal Global Law School’s increasingly prominent Centre for Health Law, Ethics, and Technology (CHLET) has launched a website. Their latest report on Access to Contraceptive Services and...
Guest Post by Prashant Narang* This year, sixty six candidates cleared the AoR exam and recently on 20.03.2013 those successful candidates were designated as AoR by the Judge-in-Chamber. In my...
The Socio-Legal Review, with Khaitan and Co. and Sterling Developers, announces the 3rd Annual Essay Competition 2012-13, as part of its initiate to encourage writing on issues of contemporary...
This paper, Off the map: the health and social implications of being a non-notified slum in India – the result of a collaboration between the Mumbai NGO PUKAR, the Harvard School of Public...
In this op-ed in today’s Express I highlight a pressing, yet underadressed problem in the upper tiers of the Indian judiciary – that of following precedent. As the piece makes clear, more...
I released a paper today with Azim Premji’s Law, Governance, and Development Initiative entitled “The Indian Supreme Court by the Numbers.” It can be downloaded here or here. I have...