Of the sanctioned strength of 31, 27 judges currently serve on the Supreme Court. Of these 27 judges, 24 have previously been judges of one or more High Courts in the country. While we are aware of...
This is the third post by Ujwala Uppaluri in the series on the ‘right to privacy’ hearings in the Supreme Court. You can read parts I & II here and here This case offers the court an...
Posted on behalf of Sital Kalantry New Book: Women’s Human Rights and Migration: Sex-Selective Abortion Law in the United States and India published by the University of Pennsylvania Press 2017 In...
I wrote a short piece for the Feminist Law Professors Blog on the issue of taxation of sanitary napkins and tampons in India. Writing for a largely foreign audience, I provide an overview of the...
The privacy hearings before a 9-judge bench (excellently covered by Ujwala Uppaluri on this blog) have excited much attention. Some thoughts on these hearings below: On the adjudicative form: This is...
(This is the second post by Ujwala Uppaluri in a series on the ‘right to privacy’ hearings in the Supreme Court of India. The first post can be accessed here.) On Tuesday and...
(This is the first post of a 3-part series by Ujwala Uppaluri on the ‘right to privacy’ hearings before the Supreme Court of India. Ujwala is a graduate of NUJS Kolkata and Harvard Law...
CALL FOR PAPERS – NOW OPEN Comparative Perspectives on Administrative Law in India Workshop, 6 – 7 April 2018, Delhi, India Hosted by Jindal Global Law School – Melbourne Law School...
Much of our legal system is built not merely on the foundation of the black letter of the law, but also the manner in which judges interpret and give meaning to these words. The words “procedure...
Posted on behalf of MyLaw 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of the end of the Emergency in India – perhaps the darkest period in our recent political history. The Emergency was declared following the...
My first post for this blog was about Indian judges who had previously served in state and Central legislatures. At that time, I noted that ‘despite the fact that no Supreme Court judge appointed...
(A guest post by Eugene R. Fidell) [Eugene R. Fidell teaches Military Justice at Yale Law School and edits the Global Military Justice Reform blog, globalmjreform.blogspot.com. His book, Military...
Guest Post by Thriyambak J. Kannan The Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (“the Act”), pursuant to the recommendations of the 246th Law Commission Report (“Report”) underwent a series of...