Mainstream media has been abuzz with news of a paralytic strike by the Bar Council of India (BCI), protesting against the divestiture of their control over legal education via the proposed Higher...
The Macro/Finance Group at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy has work opportunities for lawyers on interesting and important policy work connected with India’s economic reform...
In a rather provocative post around two years ago, I bemoaned the fact that a disproportionately large number of National Law University (NLU) graduates opt for “corporate” careers...
India’s first compulsory licensing order in the post TRIPS patent era garnered more attention than one might have expected. The NY Times reported it, as did a host of other renowned papers...
Two important IP developments in the recent past have thrown up interesting issues around the standards for judicial recusal and for determining conflict of interest. Novartis Patent Dispute and...
That Bollywood is often “inspired” by many a storyline of Hollywood or that its music composers routinely “borrow” tunes from across the world, without attribution to the...
Applications invited for the position of IP Research Fellow at WB NUJS, a leading Indian law school. Further details available here. Last date for application is the 5th of August 2011.
Tarunabh captured some of the reactions to the Anna Hazare campaign in his post here, where he also warned that the problem of corruption is a complex multi-factorial issue, not easily amenable to...
The Legal Information Institute (LII), an organisation at the forefront of driving open access in all things related to law, launches in India in a big way. The Legal Information Institute of India...
Talha Rahman had written earlier on the issue of lawyers’ deciding to boycott certain kinds of “accused”. He now has an update to his earlier post as below. In A.S. Mohammad Rafi v...