I thought some might be interested in this recent report I wrote for Accountability Initiative. It’s based off some research I did in Madhya Pradesh and Bihar on the implementation of the...

Guest Post by Abhinav Sekhri, a law student at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru The last decade of British rule in the subcontinent had immense political drama but little in...

Professor Madabhushi Sridhar argues eloquently that Kasab’s constitutional rights were violated in the haste to execute him. He says the government should have informed Kasab that he could ask...

News agencies are reporting that Ajmal Kasab was hanged to death in Pune’s Yerawada Jail at 7.30am this morning. Today’s edition of the Indian Express carries a story on its front page...

I wrote in yesterday’s The Indian Express on Balasaheb Thackeray. Im sure the arrest of two bloggers today will attract this blog’s attention.

The Australian Journal of Asian Law is a forum for debate for scholars and professionals concerned with the laws and legal cultures of Asia. It aims for recognition as a leading medium for...

The National Law School of India University’s Student Bar Association has requested us to post this statement on their behalf.   This is in relation to the incident of gang-rape...

This op-ed “Why is the SC so Powerful?” by Faisal Siddiqi that appeared recently in the Pakistani daily Dawn I think does a good job of laying out several (intuitive and not so intuitive)...

The US Supreme Cout will hear arguments today (10th October) in  Fisher v. Texas concerning the constitutionality of using race as a factor in university admissions. Nine years after the...