In the current issue of EPW, Rowena Robinson in an article titled, “Minority Rights vs Caste Claims: Indian Christians and the Predicament of Law” turns to the Constituent Assembly...
Standard Indian Legal Citation (SILC) launched earlier this week at a number of law schools in India. SILC is a legal citation system created by some recent law graduates and law students for the...
Guest Post by Abhinav Sekhri I recently happened to visit the Supreme Court of India where I required a “proximity-pass” for gaining entry to the building. Coming from the Bombay High Court where...
A draft of a paper I have been working on was recently posted on SSRN as part of the Harvard Law School Program on the Legal Profession Research Paper Series. The paper is titled: “From Hyderabad...
Arvind Elangovan, the biographer of BN Rau, has written an interesting paper. He summarizes the new directions in Indian constitutional history studies after Granville Austin. Arvind says we must...
Earlier this year, the Center for Policy Research organized a seminar on the Supreme Court’s recent Koushal decision. The seminar featured lawyers who appeared in the case. Excerpts are...
Oxford University has been highly concerned to learn of complaints raised by participants in the Moot competition, which was not organised by the University but by the Oxford University Society India...
Clause (3) of Article 145 says the minimum number of Judges who are to sit for the purpose of deciding any case involving a substantial question of law as to the interpretation of this Constitution...
To complement a recent research handbook on Comparative Constitutional Law published in 2011 (here), Rosalind Dixon and Tom Ginsburg have put together a research handbook on Comparative...
Call for Papers for “LEFT” IN THE DARK? POSTCOLONIAL CONVERSATIONS ON LAW, NEOLIBERALISM AND QUEER-FEMINIST FUTURES , October 15-18, 2014 by Jindal Global Law School. Janet...
The Supreme Court of India in its recent decision in the Shabnam Hashmi case took another step towards the harmonization of family law in India by holding Muslims too could adopt under the Juvenile...