In their recent incisive post, Bhupender Yadav and Vikramjit Bannerjee raise several questions about the use of colonial precedent and judicial faith which deserve reflection and further discussion...
Karuna Mantena‘s first book, Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism joins a growing conversation around the British codification of law in India. Mantena, a political...
Elizabeth Kolsky‘s, Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law recently published by Cambridge University Press is a significant intervention into understanding how...
I just wanted to draw the attention of our readers to some fascinating constitutional developments in our neighborhood. 1. A month ago the Sri Lankan Parliament ratified the 18th Amendment to their...
While researching at the British Library this week, I stumbled across a Memorandum on the administration of justice in India by Sir Patrick Spens, Chief Justice of the Federal Court of India. Spens...
Centre for Disability Studies – NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad Internship Programme for Law Students The Centre for Disability Studies, NALSAR University of Law invites applications for its...
Despite Pakistan’s troubled history of executive-judiciary relations and frequent attempts by the executive to pack or sack the judiciary, public opinion seems to be wary of granting the...
Continuing with the fascinating questions that Shamnad has thrown up over moral rights and cultural property, Ananya Vajpeyi ruminates on the recent controversy over Ram Gopal Varma’s creative...
K. Balagopal, in his last article in the EPW castigates the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on reservations. He frames the problem as one of judicial indiscipline influenced by...
C.B Muthamma passed away today. She was the first woman to have joined the Indian civil service in 1949. She became a part of Indian legal history when she challenged the Foreign Service Rules which...