Posted on behalf of MyLaw We’ve written here previously about Part 1 of The Case That Triggered An Emergency. That video was about how a group of underdogs managed to unseat Prime Minister...
By Jhuma Sen The Feminist Judgment Project India imagines the possibilities of collaborative writing of alternate judgments for several Indian cases across a broad range of legal issues having a...
In a recent piece for Bar and Bench, Arvind Datar examines whether a fundamental right can be waived. I had long assumed that this question was settled in Basheshwar Nath’s Case. The Court...
The Land Rights Initiative at the Centre for Policy Research is looking to hire a research associate . Candidates who meet the following eligibility criteria may consider applying for this position. ...
Michael Dorf, Professor of Law at the Cornell Law School, has written a succinct and interesting piece analyzing the right to privacy judgment delivered on August 24th. In his column, Professor Dorf...
by Sujoy Chatterjee The National Football League (NFL) in the U.S. has been in the news of late, for football players allegedly disrespecting the U.S. national anthem by kneeling/sitting/silently...
Indian Law Review hopes to publish at least one Literature Review (of around 10,000 words, including footnotes) in every volume. We envisage a Literature Review will not only comprehensively survey...
Guest Post by Venkat Iyer To say that there has been an alarming fall in the standards of competence and integrity among judges in India in recent decades would, as an exercise in understatement, be...
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...