(Over the next few days, the Law and Other Things Blog will run a book discussion on Jinee Lokaneeta’s The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India. This is the introductory post by …
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Introduction to a Book Discussion on Julia Stephen’s Governing Islam: Law, Empire and Secularism in South Asia
(Over the next few days, the Law and Other Things Blog will run a book discussion on Julia Stephen’s Governing Islam: Law, Empire and Secularism in South Asia. This is the introductory post by Professor Rohit De.) …
Continue readingThe Historical Distrust of Arbitration in India
I wanted to bring the readers attention to Parul Kumar’s new article on the treatment of substantive allegations of fraud in arbitration, published in Arbitration International, a journal published by the London Court of International …
Continue readingLegal Consciousness in Medieval India
One of the major challenges for Indian legal historians has been to try and understand the legal systems of pre-colonial India. For a variety of reasons, there are no surviving central court archives or large …
Continue readingThe Supreme Court of Pakistan Recognizes “Basic Stucture”
13 out of 17 judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan held that the Supreme Court has intrinsic powers to review the constitutionality of a constitutional amendment. While the “basic structure” doctrine had been argued …
Continue readingThe Restoration of Chief Justice
In a dramatic move the newly elected President of Sri Lanak asked deposed Chief Justice Shirani Bandarakanayake to “resume” her duties as Chief Justice of Sri Lanka. Chief Justice Bandaranayake had been removed following the …
Continue readingLawyers of Delhi
The Pathe’ film archive has wonderful clips from Delhi in 1947. I came across this silent clip on the courts in Delhi in 1947, to my knowledge, the only visual documentation that we have of …
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PhD Scholarship on Global Law and Society at Queen Mary’s, London
A Studentship in Law and Society in a Global Context at Queen Mary The Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context (CLSGC), part of the Department of Law, is offering a PhD Studentship …
Continue readingReligion and Caste in the Constituent Assembly
In the current issue of EPW, Rowena Robinson in an article titled, “Minority Rights vs Caste Claims: Indian Christians and the Predicament of Law” turns to the Constituent Assembly debates to explore how dalit Christians …
Continue readingThe Right to Adopt
The Supreme Court of India in its recent decision in the Shabnam Hashmi case took another step towards the harmonization of family law in India by holding Muslims too could adopt under the Juvenile Justice …
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