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Shamnad Basheer

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Honorary Research Chair Professor of IP Law, Nirma University Visiting Professor of Law, National Law School, Bangalore

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Secretly Signing Away Patent Safeguards: Whither Constitutionality?

March 15, 2016by Shamnad Basheer

A huge controversy has broken out in the Indian patent and public health space. Apparently, the Indian government offered an alleged under-the-table assurance to USIBC (and other US...

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(Re)Booting the Bar: Barbs, Bribes and a Bar Exam

March 6, 2016by Shamnad Basheer

In a post some years ago, I reproduced a letter that I’d written to the then Chairman of the Bar Council, Gopal Subramanium (a leading senior counsel, whose prodigious talent I had the great...

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Jugaad Justice?

May 12, 2015by Shamnad Basheer

A bit dated, but here is an op-ed of mine in the Mint reflecting on what I term “jugaad justice”. In this piece, I refer to Justice Katju’s maverick ruling dispensing with interim...

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Land Acquisition: The Continuation of a Faulty Legacy?

April 22, 2015by Shamnad Basheer

    We are pleased to bring you a guest post by Dhruva Gandhi, Sarangan Rajeshkumar and Shubham Jain, all of whom are II year BALLB (Hons.) students at NLS, Bangalore. The authors may be contacted at...

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The Taming of the Tribunal

October 15, 2014by Shamnad Basheer

In a recent op-ed in the Financial Express, I reflect on the recent Supreme Court invalidation of the National Tax Tribunal (NTT). While some see this as payback by the judiciary against the...

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Pharmaceutical Patents and the Dawn of a New Era

October 2, 2014by Shamnad Basheer

In a piece in the Indian Express a couple of days ago, I expressed some apprehension about the latest round of licensing agreements signed between Gilead and seven Indian generic...

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The JAC Bills: From Representative to Deliberative Democracy?

September 10, 2014by Shamnad Basheer

In a recent op-ed in the Mint, I lament the lack of public consultation in Indian law and policy making. I argue that its high time we moved from representative to deliberative democracy. I note the...

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Excessive Delegation in the Judicial Appointments Bill?

August 30, 2014by Shamnad Basheer

We bring you a guest post from Aradhya Sethia, a very bright third year student of the National Law School, Bangalore. The Vice of Excessive Delegation in the NJAC Bill, 2014: The Devil is in Details...

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The Impracticality of Jan Chaukidar

August 8, 2013by Shamnad Basheer

We bring you a guest post from Shambo Nandy, a recent graduate of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences who now works with Raju Ramachandran, a leading Supreme Court counsel...

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Call for Papers: Financial Laws and Policy

October 1, 2012by Shamnad Basheer

The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi invites papers for a national-level seminar titled “Financial Law & Policy: An Inter-disciplinary Approach” to...

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