Michael Dorf, Professor of Law at the Cornell Law School, has written a succinct and interesting piece analyzing the right to privacy judgment delivered on August 24th. In his column, Professor Dorf studies various aspects …
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Guest Post: The Perils of Judicial Impulsiveness
Guest Post by Venkat Iyer To say that there has been an alarming fall in the standards of competence and integrity among judges in India in recent decades would, as an exercise in understatement, be …
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I wrote a short piece for the Feminist Law Professors Blog on the issue of taxation of sanitary napkins and tampons in India. Writing for a largely foreign audience, I provide an overview of the controversy …
Continue readingCall for Applications: Short-term research stipends for emerging legal scholars from India
The Chair for Public and Comparative Law at Humboldt University Berlin together with Dr. Benedikt Naarmann offer short-term research stipends for emerging legal scholars from India, who would like to come to Berlin in order …
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George Gadbois, Scholar of the Indian Judiciary, 1936-2017
George H. Gadbois Jr., the preeminent scholar of India’s judiciary and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Kentucky, passed away last night at his home in Lexington, Kentucky. He was 80. Born near …
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Economic Survey 2017
Yesterday, the Chief Economic Advisor, Arvind Subramanian, released the Economic Survey 2017. Various chapters of the Survey grapple with issues such as demonetization, federalism, GST, Universal Basic Income, among others. Chapter 11 – entitled ‘One …
Continue readingWorld Development Report 2017: Governance and the Law
The World Bank has released the World Development Report 2017 on ‘Governance and the Law’. The official webpage of the report is here. The report itself is available for download here. Chapter 3, on the role of …
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