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...

Arun Sagar has an outstanding piece here on Telangana and Indian Federalism.

This blog has previously discussed the issue of pre-legislative scrutiny (here, here and here). On the 10th of January 2014 the Committee of Secretaries approved a policy that requires all...

Neeti Nair, who teaches history at Virginia, has a superb piece in the Indian Economic & Social History Review on the making of Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code, a provision recently in much...

* ECI adds Part VIII on Election Manifestos to the Model Code of Conduct, after discussion with political parties. * The Hindu calls for disincentives against disruption in Parliament. The outgoing...