Tahir Mahmood responds to the criticisms made by Javed Anand of the 227th Law Commission report. He makes two interesting points. The first that the Law Commission since its inception in 1955 has...
Bibek Debroy has written part one, two, three, and four of a five-part series on legal reform in India, in The Financial Express,. The final, fifth, part appeared today. Bibek is one of India’s...
Newspapers today are reporting a speech by the HRD Minister, Kapil Sibal, calling for sweeping reforms in legal education. From the reported accounts it appears that Sibal is making two main points:...
Justice Bhat’s judgment on declaration of assets by judges continues to be in the limelight, and has drawn high praise from the former CJI, Justice Verma, in an op-ed that appears in...
1. The theme of ‘the reshaping of history through the rewriting of signposts’ brought out in this op-ed piece in the New York Times yesterday in the context of changes made to road signs in Israel...
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...