I am pleased to present a guest post by Mr. Anirban Bhattacharya, a Senior Associate with Luthra & Luthra Law Offices, New Delhi. The present article contains views of the author and not...
Frontline’s latest cover story is a comprehensive analysis of the Lucknow Bench’s judgment. Among the articles are those written by A.G.Noorani and me here and here. Interviews with...
The judgment on the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid Land Title Suit, was delivered by the Allahabad High Court on 30 September 2010. It may be recalled that on 6 December 1992, Babri Masjid – a 500-year...
The Special Lucknow Bench’s judgment in the Babri Masjid title case is too voluminous to enable an instant analysis. One such early analysis by Pratap Bhanu Mehta attracted a spirited critique...
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...