Justice Markandey Katju, who was recently appointed to the Supreme Court, appears to be a representative of a rare species of higher court judges in contemporary India, who actually agree that the...
Recent months have witnessed many interesting legal developments in India. I hope that some of us who were active earlier can revive this blog. While it was alive, this blog provided a valuable forum...
This story on judicial appointments from the Hindu is amazing. Who is their source? I can’t comment on this further because of professional constraints. But, perhaps, others on this blog will...
Dear Colleagues: Thanks to Vikram for allowing me take up some of his blog space. I’ve just posted a paper on SSRN entitled “Outsourcing and the Globalizing Legal Profession.” It is...
An interesting and thoughtful piece by the Union Law Secretary, who was the driving force behind computerising the Law Commission.
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In this guest note, I hope to give an ‘insider’s perspective’ on judicial clerkships at the Supreme Court of India, since I myself happened to clerk for Justice B.N. Srikrishna during the 2005-6 term...
Here is a link to our comparative constitutional law conference in November.
I found this statement today in P.L. Lakhanpal v. Union of India (AIR 1972 Del.), a judgment by Justice V.S. Deshpande. Does this mean that the expansive view of Article 21 predates Menaka? If that...
Was directed the Annual Review of the Supreme Court a few weeks ago by a friend (. Unfortunately accessible only to those have a subscription to JSTOR or Athens or such like). Even before browsing...
In a very convoluted way this takes of from Vikram’s post on M C Setalvad’s Common Law in India and his silence on the Statute of Frauds question. Was reading Harrold Berman’s Law...
Check out TDSAT’s cool new website: The Tribunal has been posting all its judgments online for some time. But it has also been putting out its orders recently. All this transparency should spur...
I never had the opportunity of reading Ram Jawaya Kapoor v. State of Punjab, AIR 1955 SC 549, in law school. Recently, I had to look at it for one section of my book, and I realized how important...
I’ve been reading Setalvad’s Common Law in India. It is so cogently written, and describes our legal system with elegance and modesty. Why did the style of writing die? Actually, the...