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...
The 61st anniversary of Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s death anniversary would be a good opportunity to revisit the certain aspects of the controversy set off in Jaswant Singh’s book. As...
Tahir Mahmood responds to the criticisms made by Javed Anand of the 227th Law Commission report. He makes two interesting points. The first that the Law Commission since its inception in 1955 has...
Tehelka presents short profiles of the three judges who effected the change in the Supreme Court’s position on the ‘declaration of assets’. Their backgrounds make fascinating...
Shoaib Ghias in a prize winning essay in the Law and Social Inquiry puts forward an interesting set of arguments explaining recent judicial activism in Pakistan. This study explains the rise and fall...
The 227th Report of the Law Commission of India on “Preventing Bigamy Via Conversion to Islam: A Proposal for giving Statutory Effect to Supreme Court Rulings” was published earlier this month. The...