The Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy has announced a call for Junior Research Fellowships beginning in mid-2014. The details of the call are available here. Vidhi is also seeking student...
This post refers to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court’s in-house committee probing the allegations against a retired Supreme Court Judge. With Outlook magazine giving the details of the...
The Board of Trustees and Members of the Governing Body of THE K R CAMA ORIENTAL INSTITUTE invite you to a lecture on “Judges Of The Bombay High Court During The British Raj 1862-1947″ by...
The debate over T.S.R. Subramanian continues in the pages of the Indian Express. On Friday, Pratap Bhanu Mehta wrote a whithering critique of the judgment, which takes steps to increase bureaucratic...
In a paper published in the latest issue of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, I explore the proportionality doctrine as applied by the Supreme Court of India. An earlier version of the...
The Gauhati High Court judgment in W.A. No.119 of 2008 in W.P.(C) No. 6877 of 2005 delivered by Justice A.Ansari (link available thanks to livelaw.in) has raised the hopes of several accused in cases...
Last week saw the Supreme Court decide T.S.R. Subramanian vs. Union of India. The judgment, involving the independence of the bureaucracy, is arguably the latest in a fascinating line of...
Recently, many new books or new editions of the old ones on the various dimensions of Constitutional history and practice have been published. These four books are the first of these to...
Marc Galanter and I have this piece out as part of Harvard Law School’s Program on the Legal Profession Research Paper Series (a version of it will also appear as a chapter in a forthcoming...
For the Indian voter, the road ahead from NOTA to realising the right to reject all candidates, and as a consequence, seek a re-election, is not so insurmountable. Legally. Or so it appears to...
Srinath Raghavan, a leading historian, has just published his next book ‘1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh’ by Harvard University Press / Permanent Black. The book...
DAKSH, the Bangalore based accountability group that I work with, has announced a Legislation Drafting Challenge for college students. The competition is open to students across all disciplines. The...
Today’s news brought headlines of the largest ever medical negligence judgement in India: 6.08 Rs Crore awarded by the Supreme Court to a U.S. doctor whose child psychologist wife died during a...