On 26 November 2016, I took part in a panel at the Consulate-General of India in Sydney to celebrate Constitution Day. I’ve provided my speech notes below. I was told to avoid controversy and to make...
In Defence of the Triple Test: A Case for Retaining the Standard in Bangalore Water Supply (Part-II)
(A guest post by Saurabh Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor of Law at NUJS, Kolkata) PART-II Why Triple Test Must Not be Interfered With? The five-judge bench in Jaibir Singh had not only assailed...
(Guest Post by Saurabh Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor of Law at NUJS, Kolkata) The constitution of a seven-judge bench of the Supreme Court to examine whether the decision of Bangalore Water...
Guest Post by Sujoy Chatterjee The Union Government has faced criticism from sections of the media and civil society for imposing a 24-hour “ban” on Hindi news channel “NDTV India”. The Union...
Guest Post by Charanya Kumaran, Advocate, New Delhi Recently, a Constitution Bench of 9 judges of the Supreme Court of India delivered a judgment on validity of entry tax legislations enacted by...
[The following announcement is posted on behalf of the National Law School of India Review] The National Law School of India Review (NLSIR), the flagship journal of the National Law School of India...
Professor Upendra Baxi recently spoke at OP Jindal University on the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act. Here is a transcript of his remarks. Mr Vice Chancellor, OP Jindal University, Dr. Dipika...
This post is not a summary of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Jindal Stainless Ltd v State of Haryana, Civil Appeal No. 3453/2002 (2016) (“the Entry Tax case”). Other contributors to this blog...
The third conference of the International Public Policy Association will take place at Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy from 28th June to 30th June 2017. One of the panels...
[This is a post about an event being held in early 2017. The text sent to us by the organisers follows] We are pleased to announce the 1st National Constitutional Law Olympiad being...
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...