During the past few days, our blog has discussed the issue of lack of voting rights for Indians temporarily residing abroad during the elections. Responses to the debate suggested that if those...
Several readers have enquired about the draft Prevention of Torture Bill 2008, mentioned in my article on impunity provisions. This blog discussed the possibility of bipartisan consensus on outlawing...
The Jindal Global Law School has announced its faculty. This list is here. With law schools mushrooming in India, it may be useful, in due course, to examine faculty strenghts in different law...
The case of Ram Lakhan v State 137 (2007) DLT 173 on begging is a lesson in stupid laws and sensitive adjudication. Justice Badar Durrez Ahmad of the Delhi High Court deserves commendation. The...
The Group of International Lawyers Delhi (GUILD) was recently created under the auspices of the Centre for Policy Research. For those interested it currently meets once a month to discuss timely...
Namita and Nick, our co-bloggers, have recently drawn attention to the need to decriminalise politics. The readers have, rightly, raised questions about the propriety of barring those candidates who...
Pursuant to Arun’s post highlighting the resurgence of the NUJS law review, we have another “revamped” NUJS journal that is slated to hit the stands. The NUJS Journal of Law &...
Analysis by the Times of India indicates an approximately 30 per cent decline in the count of candidates with criminal records contesting the present Lok Sabha elections as compared to the statistics...
In pursuance of the Order passed by the Supreme Court on 19-01-2009, in writ petition ( C) No. 207 of 2004, the Election Commission issued Guidelines, on 17th February, 09, to be followed in the...
This op-ed by Sudhir Krishnaswamy (now a professor at NUJS) appeared in the Indian Express this weekend discussing the recent student strike at HNLU – a topic of a recent post on this blog. The...
In another manifestation of the Supreme Court’s activist avatar as well as the trend of poorly written judgments, Justice Pasayat writing for the court in In re Destruction of Public and Private...
A few commentators including Pratap Bhanu Mehta have tried to expose the activists working among the Gujarat carnage victims for “fabricating evidence”. But the rebuttal by the activists...
Since many of our readers are Indians living abroad I thought there would be interest in Abhinav Chandrachud’s op-ed in today’s Hindu, “Overseas Citizens: A Horse with No...