The ongoing war in Mumbai will no doubt revive the debate over whether we need a Federal Investigation Agency sooner than later. While Vivek Reddy has argued here that our Constitution indeed...
The second issue of The Indian Journal of Constitutional Law published annually by the MK Nambyar SAARCLAW Chair in Comparative Constitutional Studies at the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad,has...
The Hindu published this rambling opinion piece by Justice Katju on the need for tolerance in India. While I appreciated the underlying theme of the piece and Justice Katju’s earnest call for...
It strikes me that opinion columns in Indian newspapers have greatly improved in their style, analysis, and content. Previously, opinion writing was dominated by retired bureaucrats who bloviated...
Dr.Rajeev Dhavan completed his submissions as the counsel for the respondent State of Bihar before the Constitution Bench in the K.Krishna Murthy case. LAOT thanks him for sharing with us a copy of...
This morning’s Hindu published a somewhat belated review of Rajeev Dhavan’s controversial book, Reserved, by N.R. Madhava Menon. If you follow this blog regularly, you may recall our own...
The recent spate of terrorist attacks across the country has led to a demand for creation of a national agency to investigate acts of terrorism. The UPA government has cited the Indian Constitution...
This new book, edited by Varun Gauri and Daniel M.Brinks is to be published by Cambridge University Press shortly. The contents indicate that India is among the five countries (others being South...
It is not very often that the BJP raises the issue of torture (this is not to say that other political parties are particularly vocal on it either). Advani’s statements on the alleged torture...
Check this out. Equador is perhaps the first country in the world to extend a constitutional right to all of nature. The history of the movement leading up to this can be read in this Guardian...
The Association for Democratic Reforms, whose PIL seeking filing of IT returns by political parties was rejected by the Supreme Court last week, has been raising pertinent issues concerning our...
As a follow up from Madhav’s post, I think that terms like ‘judicial activism’ can hide more than they reveal. One needs to be careful about the precise judicial role where the...
In an article in the current issue of the Economic & Political Weekly, Animesh Sharma explores the jurisprudential basis of Article 377 of the Indian Penal Code, the constitutional validity of...