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...
We are very pleased to publish the following guest post from Arghya Sengupta, member of the Pre-Legislative Briefing Service...
The Socio-Legal Review (SLR) is a student-edited, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal published annually by the Law and Society Committee of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore...
The Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench)Division Bench’s verdict in the Khairlanji case has shaken the conscience of all right-thinking people, as the Judges refused to see any caste prejudice to...
The Accountability Initiative is an independent effort to strengthen accountability by undertaking policy research, creating networks of stakeholders, exploring new areas and ways to collect and...
Journal of Indian Law & Society is currently soliciting submissions for its second issue due in December, 2010. The deadline for submissions is October 5, 2010. Please send in your submissions...
Guest Post: K.P. Nayar For many years, Israel has been criticised by the UN Human Rights Council, Amnesty International and many national governments for its policies towards the West Bank and Gaza...