The following guest post has been contributed by Saumya Uma (Women’s Research and Action Group), and Arvind Narrian (Alternative Law Forum). It is cross-posted at Kafila. ...
(Guest post by Gaurav Mukherjee. Gaurav is a Graduate Fellow at the School of Policy & Governance, Azim Premji University) The right to education under Article 21A of the Indian Constitution is...
In a new book published by Oxford University Press this month, entitled “The Informal Constitution: Unwritten Criteria in Selecting Judges for the Supreme Court of India”, I explore the prevalence of...
The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library organised a Workshop titled ‘Nehru’s India’ on 1st May, 2014. This was the second of the three events being organized in commemoration of the...
This is a guest post from Venkatesh Nayak, Programme Coordinator, Access to Information Programme, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, an international NGO headquartered in New Delhi...
One of the prominent theories of why the Indian Supreme Court is so powerful when compared to other courts around the world is that its rise mirrored the rise of coalition politics in India in the...
[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...
I’ve spent the last 1.5 months writing a 5-part election series for the Indian Express, called “Vikas Vote”. I travel to constituencies across India which have seen big improvements...
The Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy (“Vidhi”) invites applications for the post of “Reporter-cum-Blog Administrator”, a fully-paid and full-time engagement based out of Vidhi’s...
Sudhir Krishnaswamy and Rajgopal Saikumar had this interesting piece in the Hindu this weekend cautioning the judiciary against Public Interest Litigation that is used by groups already well...
The Supreme Court has recently delivered an important judgment in the case of National Legal Services Authority v Union of India (NALSA). A two-judge bench comprising Justices Radhakrishnan and Sikri...