The Indian Journal of Constitutional Law is an endeavour of the Constitutional Law Society at NALSAR, Hyderabad and the MK Nambyar SAARC Law Chair in Comparative Constitutional Studies. The Journal...
This is an update on my earlier post on the Haj order (A Liberal Secularist Agenda for Disengagement with Religion). The interim order in Union of India v Rafique Shaikh Bhikhan by Justice Alam...
I am still to see the full judgment, but media reports suggest that a bench of Justices Alam and Desai have struck down the provision for Haj subsidy as unconstitutional. If this move signals a shift...
We are very happy to announce that Anup Surendranath has agreed to join the blog team at LAOT. Readers who have been reading his guest posts should already be familiar with him somewhat and can look...
When narratives on the Supreme Court’s enforcement of socio-economic rights are written, the judgment of the Court upholding the constitutionality of the Right to Education Act, 2009 will probably...
I came across this disturbing bit of history (hitherto unknown to me) while reading William Dalrymple’s The Age of Kali. It relates to the Indian Army’s ‘Operation Polo’ in...
Three issues we like to track on this blog: 1. Housing discrimination: This advert has sparked some debate on the internet. It has an image of a billboard advertising flats ‘only for...
The W.B. National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata announces, in association with Professors from the National University of Singapore, its inaugural Summer Law School Programme to be...
In this article published in the recent volume of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (unformatted SSRN version available here), I have discussed the role of the concept of dignity in human rights...
Delhi Law Review: Call for papers Delhi Law Review (DLR), one of the oldest law journals in India and a publication of Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, invites articles,papers, case notes, book...