Shyam Balganesh, who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and has previously published in journals including the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and Columbia Law Review, has an...
What has been the record of the Supreme Court in protecting the environment? Geetanjoy Sahu in a recent article in the Economic and Political Weekly examines every Supreme Court case dealing with...
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA INVITATION FOR APPLICATIONS FOR FOREIGN LAW CLERKS The Justices of the Constitutional Court of South Africa are pleased to invite applications from outstanding...
The Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi is organising a conference on “Land Rights, Environmental Protection and Inclusive Development in India”. The conference will feature three...
Nitayanand Jayaraman writes about the impact of the new Company Act requiring disclosures of corporate funding to political parties. The article draws upon the excellent reporting by V.Venkatesan to...
Under the aegis of the MK Nambyar SAARC Law Chair in Comparative Constitutional Studies and the Constitutional Law Society at NALSAR, the Indian Journal of Constitutional Law serves as a forum...
Section 145(3) of the Indian Constitution states: “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...
According to a notification in the Official Gazette dated December 19, 2013, the much awaited and rather controversial Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation...
The Campus Law Centre at the University of Delhi will be having a conference on “Mitigation of Climate Change: Law, Policy, and Governance” on April 25-27, 2014. For those who would like...
[This post follows up on my previous post on this judgment on this blog.] In Koushal v Naz—the case being touted as one of its worst judgments—a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court recently...
[The following is an announcement from the Indian Journal of International Economic Law] The Indian Journal of International Economic Law is now accepting submissions for its upcoming issue – Volume...
Some thoughts on the Naz decision, here. In many ways, the shameful decision is a consequence of what has been unfolding in India for a few years now, where there an emphasis only on outcomes. The...
Today, Justice Rajiv Shakdher found the Indian Supreme Court’s policy for appointing law clerks was unconstitutional. The petitioner in the case was the top of her class at the Army Institute...