For those interested in criminal justice and torture there is going to be an Independent People’s Tribunal on Torture, Extra-Judicial Killings, and Forced Disappearances this weekend (Feb. 9th...
EPW has an article on the ongoing forest case (T.N.Godavarman v. Union of India) and its implications. It traces how the SC, taking recourse to ‘continuing’ mandamus, has assumed complete...
The Supreme Court has dismissed an application by painter MF Hussain ‘for immunity from prosecution in any court in the country except in Delhi’. Multiple proceedings against Shilpa...
The bird flu attack in West Bengal has raised the question as to who was responsible for not taking prompt steps to contain the epidemic – Centre or the State Government. The State Government...
Everyone knows how the Union of India had to withdraw its own affidavit in the Sethusamudram case in the Supreme Court, as the Government felt embarrassed by Paragraph 20 of the affidavit, which...
The Seminar‘s latest issue is on SEZs, a subject which has engaged the attention of our contributors recently. In the Problem, posed by Aseem Shrivastava, an independent economist in Delhi...
In a very interesting copyright case, the Supreme Court of India recently ruled that there can be no copyright in the raw text of court judgments/decisions. Well, we don’t exactly need a court...
I had suggested in my last post that the speculation that Harbhajan Singh might be imposed only fine in lieu of match-ban by the Appeals Commisioner Justice John Hansen was wrong because for a level...
In light of the ongoing illegal kidney trade scandal, CNN-IBNLive had a debate on the question of organ trade. Some interesting points were made by the anchor in support of legalizing it including...
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post on the sorry state of digital archives of legal scholarship in India. Since then, I have had many responses on archives and searches that do exist at the moment...
Today’s Hindu features an article by two academics from the Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS) which reports the findings of an interesting study conducted by the institute. The question...
Professor Tony Blackshield, Professor Emeritus at Macquarie University, will deliver a lecture on the above subject at a seminar being organised by the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance...
This year’s R-Day awards, as usual, have become controversial. If the non-award of Bharat Ratna was preceded by open lobbying by almost all sections of political spectrum, not all the names of...