JGLS is taking applications (due December 15th) from law students for its National Student Research Colloquium of Contemporary Challenges of Law in India. The Colloquium will take place in March 2013...
I thought some might be interested in this recent report I wrote for Accountability Initiative. It’s based off some research I did in Madhya Pradesh and Bihar on the implementation of the...
This op-ed “Why is the SC so Powerful?” by Faisal Siddiqi that appeared recently in the Pakistani daily Dawn I think does a good job of laying out several (intuitive and not so intuitive)...
On Spicy IP Prashant Reddy has posted here and here a detailed reply to the defamation petition brought by NATCO against Shamnad concerning one of Shamnad’s posts on Spicy IP. The posts...
As reported in Legally India and Bar and Bench, the pharmaceutical company NATCO has brought a defamation suit against Shamnad Basheer claiming that the blog he runs – Spicy IP – ran a...
The Jindal Global Law Review is out with the first part of a special double issue on Law, Culture, and Queer Politics in Neoliberal Times. Several of the contributions focus their attention on...
As different networks are reporting the Pakistani Supreme Court has ruled that Prime Minister Gilani is no longer a member of parliament and cannot be PM (the short order can be found here). ...
In today’s Indian Express I have this op-ed on how two and three judge benches of the Supreme Court are increasingly deciding cases involving substantial questions of constitutional law (think...
Robin Bradley Kar at the University of Illinois Law School has a new set of articles out on the origin of the modern Western notion of the rule of law (it can be found on SSRN here, here, and here)...
One of the defining features of the Indian Supreme Court is its panel structure. At present it has 27 judges that on a typical day may sit in benches of two or three judges in one of over a...