Guest Blogger Srinivasan Venkataraman If you are one of those that believe the media reports you may have come to the following conclusions, that Jaswant Singh’s new book ‘Jinnah-Partition-Indian...
The Lyngdoh Committee report on regulating student elections has invited much criticism, especially its impact on the recently concluded Delhi University Students Union elections. I wrote an opinion...
TR Andhyarujina has a typically insightful op-ed addressing this issue in today’s Hindu. (For posts from the archives of this blog which reference his previously published views, click here)...
Having an interest in Indian legal scholarship, I’ve been closely following the growth of law reviews in India. Over time, three law schools in India (considered by many to be perhaps the...
A call for submissions from the Indian Journal of International Economic Law (IJIEL) which may be of interest to some of our readers. “We, the editorial board of the Indian Journal of...
Guest Post Niranjan V The doctrine of casus omissus outlines the circumstances where a court can supply a clearly unintended omission by the legislature in drafting a particular provision. This issue...
Given the concerns, justifiable or otherwise, raised by a section of the judiciary regarding the possible misuse of information pertaining to judges’ assets; and the call for putting in place...
Today’s Hindu carries an op-ed by Sriram Panchu which chronicles, comments upon, and provides the context for some of the events in the unfolding saga of declaration of assets by judges, including...
Tehelka presents short profiles of the three judges who effected the change in the Supreme Court’s position on the ‘declaration of assets’. Their backgrounds make fascinating...
Gujarat High Court has lifted the ban on Jaswant Singh’s book on Jinnah. The judgment starts with a quote by Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England and a renowned Jurist: Read not to...
Guest Blogger Bikram Jeet Batra In August 2008, I had written a short note on this blog about the Swamy Shraddananda judgment. This was part of a series of judgments in which the Supreme Court while...
Guest Blogger Bala Posani I recently had the chance to travel to Ahmedabad on a reconnaissance trip to explore the possibility of a certain research project. We wanted to know if Lok Adalat (People’s...
Shoaib Ghias in a prize winning essay in the Law and Social Inquiry puts forward an interesting set of arguments explaining recent judicial activism in Pakistan. This study explains the rise and fall...