A writ petition was filed recently challenging the legality of the appointment of the current chairman of the Copyright Board, Raghbir Singh. The writ came up before Justice Sikri of the Delhi High...
*Frontline’s latest issue has a detailed expose of how the Hindustan Unilever is avoiding its responsibilities to its workers exposed to mercury in the thermometer factory it owned in...
Aditya Singh and Jonathan Gingerich, Student Empirical Research Fellows at the Harvard Law School Program on the Legal Profession are conducting empirical research on the prevalence and causes of...
The Jindal Global Law Review is inviting submissions for its March 2011 issue on the theme “The Changing Role of Law in Asia: Revolution or Devolution?” The issue will explore the effect...
For those who followed this previous post, the Rajya Sabha has sent the Prevention of Torture Bill to a Select Committee for further examination (see Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s piece in the Indian...
Manoj Mitta’s excellent article on how Supreme Court betrayed the Orissa tribals made me read in full Chief Justice Kapadia’s 2008 Justice J.K.Mathur Memorial Lecture. Readers may draw...
The Rajya Sabha is likely to take up the Torture Bill for consideration and passing sometime early next week. We have documented the various flaws in this Bill previously on this blog (see also, here...
The Accountability Initiative, a research initiative that works to promote accountability for service delivery, is seeking to hire a Research Associate to work on the PAISA Project. PAISA –...
Shekhar Hattangadi’s recent piece on the Bombay High Court’s judgment explains why justice has not been meted out to the Khairlanji victims, and how the judgment ignores “multiple...
Frontline’s recent issue is a celebration of the strengths of the Right to Information Act, and a critique of its flaws, as the activists see it. There are 10 components to the cover story, of...
Please find below a call for papers being posted on behalf of the editors of the Delhi Law Review. I hope that the DLR, like other law school journals, puts its archives online soon...
In a recent issue of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I-CON), Tsakyrakis presented a powerful critique of the proportionality test. In the current issue of I-CON, I respond to...
The proposed examination by the Bar Council of India has been covered previously on this blog. In the current issue of the University of Pennsylvania’s India in Transition Series, I offer my...