The impact of section 377 of the Indian Penal Code is not measurable solely by reference to formal prosecutions resulting in reported decisions. As the Delhi High Court found in Naz Foundation v...
Guest Post by Jarrod Bogucki The University of Wisconsin Law School is proud to present Bhopal: Law, Accidents and Disasters in India, a Digital Archive initiated by Marc Galanter. This...
Earlier this year, Daksh India (of which blog member Harish Narsappa is a founder) conducted the ‘Access to Justice’ Survey. Through a method of random sampling,researchers interviewed about 9000...
Last week, in Hiralal Harsora v. Kusum Harsora, the Supreme Court held that Section 2(q) of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 is unconstitutional to the extent that it defines...
Guest Post by Badri Natarajan Introduction This post discusses whether the denial of counsel in arbitral proceedings, can be against public policy for the purpose of S.34 of the Arbitration Act 1996...
How sustained are the impacts of the Supreme Court’s decisions on environmental issues? Shareen Joshi, a development economics excerpt at Georgetown University, addresses this issue in a...
(Guest Post by Tejas Popat) V Venkatesan in his latest post and one in 2009 talks about contingencies when the Prime Minister or a Chief Minister is unable to discharge his/her constitutionally...
The question, `After Jayalalithaa, Who?’, may sound premature to the followers of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, J.Jayalalithaa, but it can no longer be avoided, especially when she is confined to...
Guest Post by Rudrajyoti Ray, Advocate, New Delhi and Kolkata It is murder, if the intentional infliction of bodily injury is sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause death. In February...
Guest Post by Adithya Reddy Gautam Bhatia’s book on free speech is a first of its kind work on any Part III right. It will be indispensable reading for any future research on the constitutional...
As Vikram has previously noted, Part XIII of the Indian Constitution (regarding trade, commerce and intercourse within India) has once again arisen for interpretation. These provisions draw upon (but...
Guest Post by Ashwin Murthy Net neutrality in its most basic understanding is the principle that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and the Government regulating the Internet must treat all data of...