In a recent article, Badrinath Srinivasan examines how India’s courts appoint arbitrators. Under the 1996 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, parties to an international arbitration, who are...
The Section on Law and South Asian Studies of the Association of American Law Schools invites papers for its session during the 2015 AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, which is scheduled for...
Looting And Rape In Wartime: Law And Change In International Relations. By Tuba Inal, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013, 280 Pages, $75. (hereafter referred to as Looting) Redefining Rape:...
[The following announcement is posted on behalf of the National Law School of India Review] The National Law School of India Review is now accepting submissions for its upcoming issue...
The Board of Editors of Trade, Law and Development [TL&D] is pleased to invite original, unpublished manuscripts for publication in the Winter ‘14 Issue of the Journal (Vol. 6, No. 2)...
The deadline for the submission of proposals is 1 August 2014. The Faculty of Law, University of Oxford and the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne are organising a workshop on...
1 . 1,Codification, Macaulay and the Indian Penal Code: The Legacies and Modern Challenges of Criminal Law Reform edited by Wing-Cheong Chan, Barry Wright and Stanley Yeo, Ashgate...
This is a guest post by Arghya Sengupta The Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy is releasing a Briefing Book for the new government. Titled, ‘Towards the Rule of Law: 25 Legal Reforms for...
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...