The Union Government was scheduled to introduce the “National Green Tribunal Bill” in the recently concluded winter session of Parliament. The bill provides for the setting up of the National Green...
For those interested, the Telecom Disputes Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) is on the lookout for law clerks who can commit a year or two. Remumeration is Rs 20,000-25,000 per month and any law...
I am currently reading the Bombay High Court’s 150-pages judgment in R.V.Bhasin v. State of Maharashtra delivered recently. According to news reports, the Court has upheld the ban on the book...
Continuing with the fascinating questions that Shamnad has thrown up over moral rights and cultural property, Ananya Vajpeyi ruminates on the recent controversy over Ram Gopal Varma’s creative...
The NY Times has reported that the Amercian Law Institute (most famous for its Restatements of the Law series) has withdrawn Section 210.6 from its Model Penal Code. This Section provided for the...
This is a very interesting case in the Bangladesh Supreme Court. It concerns the validity of a constitutional amendment challenging the deletion of secularism from the constitutional text. It is...
Venkatesan brought in the New Year at LAOT by highlighting a copyright controversy that recently broke out between the makers of India’s most entertaining, yet thoughtful Bollywood flick of...
In my introductory post on Law and Other Things, I had questioned our Supreme Court’s institutional response to the philosophical question of when its own judgments could be overruled. Presently, in...
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR CONFERENCE ON EMERGING ISSUES OF LAW AND JUSTICE IN THE COMING DECADEMARCH 26-27 2010, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI India has experienced major changes in its economic, social and...
Wishing the LAOT readers a very happy and prosperous New Year, nay, a New Decade. Right on the N.Y.Day, we have a very interesting controversy amidst us on Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone...
The NUJS law review has just come out with its special volume dedicated to the landmark Naz Foundation judgment that effectively decriminalised same sex activities in India. Pursuant to its tradition...
As the year ends and outlandish predictions for the coming decade begin (the big fashion event… the next big tech gizmo…), here’s one this blog might be interested in: what will the...
NUJS, Koltata, is organizing the 1st Subrata Roy Chowdhury Memorial Essay Competition. The details of the competition are available here.