One of our regular and esteemed readers, Shekhar Hattangadi, has written this interesting piece in today’s DNA, expressing his disappointment with the judgment on Narco tests. Shekhar is a...
Dear All, On the requests of a number of people, the deadline for submissions of abstracts for papers and panels for the Second Law and Social Sciences Research Network (LASSnet) Conference to be...
*My article on the making of the new mining law, the Draft Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Bill, 2010, to replace the existing Act. *Another article on the merits of the all India Bar...
[Continued from Part II] 2. The 1996 Decision (contd.) b) Varying Standards If the Court’s appreciation of facts is a matter of concern, its perception of its own role does not offer much...
Some of you may be aware of a recent move by the Indian government to amend the copyright act to inter-alia redress a historical injustice and compensate Bollywood artists more justly for their...
On the 12th of June, the Alternative Law Forum (ALF) celebrated its tenth anniversary with a public lecture by Justice A P Shah and Prof. Upendra Baxi on the topic Courage Craft and Contention: Human...
Earlier on this blog, we covered Menaka Guruswamy’s EPW article on the drafting of the Nepalese Constitution. In today’s Hindu, Guruswamy’s superb op-ed provides further insights...
[Continued from Part I] 2. The 1996 Decision a) Facts, Laws, Reasons In order to construe in its proper perspective the Supreme Court’s decision in Keshub Mahindra v. State of MP ((1996) 6 SCC...
Sujit Choudhry, one of the leading experts on comparative constitutional law, will be presenting a paper on the Naz decision (“How To Do Comparative Constitutional Law in India: Naz Foundation...
Readers who have been following the debate on the Prevention of Torture Bill with us will be interested in Arun Ferreira’s recent article in the EPW, which, reflecting the concerns already...
Frontline has covered the verdict convicting & sentencing the 8 accused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster case comprehensively. Apart from my articles and interview with Himanshu Rajan Sharma, readers...
We bring you a guest post from two dynamic legal academics, Prabhash Ranjan and Daniel Mathew. Both are assistant professors at NUJS Kolkata, with Prabhash being on temporary leave to finish his PhD...
1. Introduction Most controversies involving the law have shown some broad conformance to certain broad parameters. Take for instance the Binayak Sen issue. Here the stance of civil society was...