The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear an appeal from the Andhra Pradesh High Court’s judgment in the AP Civil Liberties Committee v the Government of Andhra Pradesh tomorrow (the 12th of...
The last two decades have seen Supreme Court in South Asia playing an extremely prominent role in everyday governance. The Chief Justices of Pakistan and Sri Lanka have emerged as figureheads of the...
My piece in The Indian Express a couple of days ago on controversy over Modi speaking (then not) at Wharton. I argue that those against Modi speaking misunderstood the role of a university.
Guest Post by Kalyani Ramnath Manu Bhagavan’s ‘The Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World’ provides a compelling account of India’s engagement with international institutions from the...
Guest Post by Smaran Shetty, NUJS. The collective legacy of S.P. Gupta v. President of India (first judge’s case), Supreme Court Advocates on Record Association v. Union of India (second...
In an article published in this month’s Seminar Magazine, I argue that the debates surrounding the adoption of a fundamental right to property in the Constitution were centred around the...
The Socio-Legal Review, with Khaitan and Co. and Sterling Developers, announces the 3rd Annual Essay Competition 2012-13, as part of its initiate to encourage writing on issues of contemporary...
Continuing the conversation on the death penalty, here is an interesting post by Vrinda Bhandari on the Bhullar case and its implications both for the rarest of rare case doctrine, as well as for the...
Country specialists for international research group on proportionality analysis Five half time positions available in the following countries: South Africa, Canada, Germany, India and Poland...
This paper, Off the map: the health and social implications of being a non-notified slum in India – the result of a collaboration between the Mumbai NGO PUKAR, the Harvard School of Public...
Guest Post by Prashant Reddy, whose views are his own. It is no secret that several of us who watch the nightly tamasha at nine o’ clock on our news channels are itching to have the Indian media...
In this paper published in the February 2013 issue of the Seminar magazine, I argue that legislative obstruction in India is rule-violating, costless and insurmountable, resulting in a situation...
India Together has published a small piece by me titled, Law Justice and the Placebo of Compensation. I argue that the practice of announcing compensation following tragedies is counterproductive and...