Guest post by Ahmed Pathan (an intern at DAKSH and a soon to graduate engineering student with an interest in data science). This piece was first posted on the DAKSH Blog. Early hearing of a case...
(by Cameron Miles and Surabhi Ranganathan) Cameron Miles is a barrister of Gray’s Inn and a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and the High Court of Australia. He is a...
(by Nishant Gokhale and Rahul Raman. The authors are Associates at the Centre on the Death Penalty, National Law University, Delhi.) The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Mukesh & Anr. v. State...
I have written a short piece on the DAKSH Blog asking why despite many Supreme Court orders and directions over the last 40 years, nothing much has changed in our criminal justice system. I...
–Guest post by Dhruva Gandhi, IV Year student, National Law School of India University, Bangalore The introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is widely hailed as an important taxation...
I note at the outset that this blog post does relate back to this blog’s remit regarding ‘India’s laws and legal system’. (Or, at least, to the question of Indian political history and culture.) It...
Posted on behalf of Abhayraj Naik, School of Policy and Governance, Azim Premji University Azim Premji University is hosting a two day exhibition and public conference titled “Crafting Justice”...
Bonavero Institute Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Civil and Political Rights Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford Grade 7: £31,076 to £38,183 p.a. Fixed Term...
This is the third of a series of posts on colonial continuity in the Indian legal system. Previous posts in the series can be found here and here. Basil Reginald James was admitted to the Indian...
Posted on behalf of the Centre for Law and Policy Research In 2017, the Centre for Law and Policy Research has set up a website (presently in beta version) on the Supreme Court of India called the...
Guest Post by Goutham Shivshankar A recent development in Indian environmental jurisprudence, has been the grant of legal personhood to nature, or more accurately, several natural geographical...
The Alex Chernov JD Scholarship/Alex Chernov Master of Laws (LLM) Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 2017 to students from India commencing at Melbourne Law School in 2018. The...
Guest Post by Venkat Iyer A cliché that is often employed when marking the demise of an eminent personality is that the event represents “the end of an era”. In many cases the use of such language...