The judgment of the Supreme Court on 10th July in CEC v. Jan Chaukidar has been seen in may quarters as part of the Supreme Court’s concentrated effort to curb criminalisation of...
The Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore and the Human Rights Program, National Law School, Bangalore are organising a conference titled “Courting Justice” at the campus of the National Law...
Lawyers in India are known for frequently missing scheduled hearings, not being prepared, and unscrupulous billing practices. This recent op-ed of mine in the Hindu highlights some of these...
I guess this recent piece of reportage of mine, for the New York Times – India Ink, falls in the “Other Things” category of this blog. Though it does chronicle how the formidable...
Rustom Cavasjee Cooper passed away on the 18th of June, 2013. Cooper enters the annals of Indian legal history as the main petitioner in the Bank Nationalisation cases (R.C Cooper v. Union of India...
There was a recent post on ICONnect by David Landau describing how the Colombian Constitutional Court has struck or read down several Constitutional amendments there. Perhaps even more than...
The Law, Governance, and Development Initiative at Azim Premji University has a two year post open for a Graduate Fellow. Please see this link for more details. Please note that the original deadline...
There is a new blog up – Polity in India: Observations on Legal and Political Developments in India – that might be of interest to some readers. A number of the contributors are lawyers...
The Right to Information Act, 2005, with its 31 sections and two schedules, is one of the outstanding legislations of Indian Parliament. In view of its inherent potential to ensure...
In Chapter 6 of my book, Due Process of Law (published in 2011) [p. 177-206], I had argued that the “arbitrariness” test under Indian constitutional law, famously articulated by Justice Bhagwati in...
As has been reported at Spicy IP and Legally India the Times Publishing House – which owns Times of India – is threatening to sue for defamation a 22 year old student blogger for one of...
Call for Papers Second Azim Premji University International Conference on Law, Governance and DevelopmentRight to Welfare: Education, Food and WorkThe Law, Governance and Development Initiative of...