A guest post by Aditya Sondhi, an advocate and law teacher in Bangalore, on his early reaction to the Allahabad High Court’s ruling in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid Case. As I listened to...
I’m pleased to bring you a guest post from Kshitij Malhotra on a topic close to my heart. As Kshitij rightly argues, we need to create more 3 year programs of a quality that matches up to the...
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, one of India’s leading political theorists and constitutional experts, will be delivering the Nand & Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture at the University of Pennsylvania...
Human Rights Watch has released a comprehensive report “Dignity on Trial” on the use of forensic evidence in rape trials. The report compiled by Aruna Kashyap has also been covered by the...
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...