In this fascinating paper, Michael Hoffheimer surveys the changing treatment of law and lawyers from Saratchandra’s original novels Devdas and Parineeta, Bimal Roy’s classic film...
Pratap Mehta recently wrote on stinging piece on the need for “introspection” in the HRD ministry in The Indian Express. I don’t know enough to judge the substance, but the tone of...
At the start of this year, WIPO (World IP Organisation) commissioned a group of us (under the stewardship of Professor Lionel Bently, the famed Cambridge IP don and co-author of the leading treatise:...
The September 9 opinion of the United States District Court (Central District of California) in the case of Log Cabin Republicans v. USA is available here. In its 85 page opinion, the court found...
Sujit Choudhry, one of the leading figures in the field of comparative constitutional law, has just made available on ssrn a wonderful paper titled ‘How to Do Comparative Constitutional Law in...
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 –...