Here is my tribute to Granville Austin, the biographer of India’s Constitution, who died last Sunday. In it, I describe how Austin researched the making of India’s Constitution in...
Granville Austin, 87, the eminent biographer of India’s constitution, passed away this afternoon in Washington, DC. He was surrounded by family and friends. Red, as he liked to be called...
In this book just brought out by LexisNexis, I revisit some of the Constitutional and legal issues which interested me both in print and on this blog, with interesting results. I am giving below...
Since religious discrimination has become a moot concern after the election of the new government, the following two issues may be of interest: 1. Mani Shankar Aiyar calls for a Uniform Fiscal Code...
Our friend, Venkatesh Nayak has brought to light a disturbing fact regarding the Government’s move to amend the PIDPI Resolution, a predecessor to the Whistle Blower Protection Act, passed...
Professor Robert Post, Dean of Yale Law School, will be giving a public lecture on ‘Free Speech and Representative Democracy’ at the Multipurpose Hall, India International Center...
Guest Post by Sujoy Chatterjee The media has recently been abuzz with speculation regarding the fate of incumbent Governors who were either former party members of the Indian National Congress...
Please see the call below from APU’s School of Policy & Governance for law faculty to be part of the Masters in Law and Development. (text provided by APU)...
Dear readers, I am working on a chapter on Article 14 for a Handbook. Trying to write a reasonable comprehensive piece on an Indian constitutional provision (rather than a focussed journal article)...
Guest post by Adithya Reddy As far back as in 1963, a nine judge bench of the Supreme Court held that corporations are incapable of possessing “citizenship” and are therefore not entitled to claim...
A Studentship in Law and Society in a Global Context at Queen Mary The Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context (CLSGC), part of the Department of Law, is offering a PhD Studentship to fund a...
Guest Bloggers: Shraddha Kulhari and Sujoy Chatterjee In the previous post, we had discussed the unique position occupied by the Lt. Governor of Delhi in our national capital’s governance structure...
Guest Bloggers: Shraddha Kulhari and Sujoy Chatterjee Post the 2014 General Elections, there has been renewed interest in the political developments surrounding the Delhi Legislative Assembly...