The review petition filed by the death row convict, Sonu Sardar against his death sentence in the Supreme Court was dismissed on February 10 after a day-long hearing. The brief order uploaded...
The Justices of the Constitutional Court of South Africa are pleased to invite applications from outstanding recent law graduates and young lawyers interested in serving as foreign law clerks. ...
I recently wrote a blog post for the Rule of Law Project at DAKSH, on the state of judicial statistics in India. The post highlights concerns with data collection methodologies within the judicial...
Guest Post by Shreyas Jayasimha, Advocate, Karnataka High Court Karnataka (India) Section of the International Commission of Jurists are delighted to invite you to a seminar on Independence of...
Teesta Atul Setalvad v State of Gujarat may well be a test case to decide whether the State’s eagerness for custodial interrogation of an accused has to be given primacy over the...
In this judgment authored by Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, and delivered today, the Supreme Court has upheld the validity of the Government servants conduct rules which prohibit second...
Guest Post by Prabha Kotiswaran King’s College London is organizing its inaugural Transnational Law Summer Institute this July. Do consider applying if you are an early career...
Guest Post by Arvind Narrain Over the last few days, there has been considerable discussion of the controversial use by the BJP of the original, unamended Preamble to the Constitution...
Guest Post on behalf of Jayna Kothari CLPR invites applications for Research Associates at Bangalore. CLPR is a non-partisan and not-for-profit organization engaged in law and policy research...
A paper I wrote on the institution of the law clerkship on the Supreme Court of India was published in the International Journal of the Legal Profession, and is now available for free online. A draft...
The Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne and National Law University, Delhi invite you to a conference on ‘Contemporary Issues in Indian Public Law:...
I am delighted to announce that we have started a new project tentatively titled “The Rule of Law Project” at DAKSH. The initial focus is on collecting and organising data regarding the...
It has been some time since this blog featured analysis of the legal aspects of the regulation of cricket. (See here for some previous posts by V. Venkatesan in 2008, which might also induce...