The South Asia Institute, Harvard University, and the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, will be holding a seminar on South Asian constitutionalism on January 20, at the Centre for Policy...

Senior Advocate Raju Ramachandran delivered DAKSH’s fourth Constitution Day Lecture on November 28 in Bangalore. The topic was Judicial Independence and the Appointment of Judges. The full...

Guest post by Douglas McDonald In light of the recent passing of Benedict Anderson, this post reflects on the resonance of his work with the life and career of a remarkable Indian: William Broome...

I wrote a quick piece titled Salman and Speed on the DAKSH blog based on the pendency data that DAKSH has collected and organised. Prioritising cases based on the identity of the appellant is a...

I have this blog post up on Jotwell this week reviewing Gail Hupper’s article Educational Ambivalence: The Rise of a Foreign-Student Doctorate in Law. The article is on the history of the...

Tom Ginsburg, who is the Deputy Dean and Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, University of Chicago Law School, will be speaking on Judicial Reputation: A Comparative Theory at the Centre...

FRIDAY, 18 DECEMBER 2015 10:30 AM TO 4:00 PM Conference Hall, Centre for Policy Research India is amongst the few regimes with a constitutional commitment to a liberal democracy that...

For those interested The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative has a new website called Virtual Police Station that provides a detailed tour of an Indian police station including what victims...

As the Supreme  Court’s Constitution Bench continues its unusual consequential  hearing on the question of reforming the Collegium to recruit Judges on November 18, the doubts and...

Such is the gravitational pull of the issue of the constitutional validity of the NJAC decision, replete with surprise, that the issue of judicial recusal in certain situations is not discussed at...