In this judgment authored by Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, and delivered today, the Supreme Court has upheld the validity of the Government servants conduct rules which prohibit second...
The Narendra Modi Government has promulgated eight ordinances since coming to power last May. Readers may be aware of Shubhankar Dam’s excellent recent book, Presidential Legislation in India:...
One advantage of writing a belated obituary is that the writer can try to dig out what has been missed by others who had to write almost immediately after the eminent person’s passing...
There are two new books, published by the Three Essays Collective (TEC), which may be of interest to our readers. The first book, Kafkaland: Prejudice, Law and Counterterrorism in India ...
Looting And Rape In Wartime: Law And Change In International Relations. By Tuba Inal, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013, 280 Pages, $75. (hereafter referred to as Looting) Redefining Rape:...
1 . 1,Codification, Macaulay and the Indian Penal Code: The Legacies and Modern Challenges of Criminal Law Reform edited by Wing-Cheong Chan, Barry Wright and Stanley Yeo, Ashgate...
In this book just brought out by LexisNexis, I revisit some of the Constitutional and legal issues which interested me both in print and on this blog, with interesting results. I am giving below...
Our friend, Venkatesh Nayak has brought to light a disturbing fact regarding the Government’s move to amend the PIDPI Resolution, a predecessor to the Whistle Blower Protection Act, passed...
Guest Post by Sujoy Chatterjee The media has recently been abuzz with speculation regarding the fate of incumbent Governors who were either former party members of the Indian National Congress...
Guest Bloggers: Shraddha Kulhari and Sujoy Chatterjee In the previous post, we had discussed the unique position occupied by the Lt. Governor of Delhi in our national capital’s governance structure...