By Arvind Narrain and Saumya Uma Progressive lawyers, social activists and academics have invested much time in trying to puzzle out what is the progressive potential of law. Sometimes, answers to...
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...
Why is the mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court judges and High Court judges different in India? I addressed this question in a paper published in the EPW last week. Supreme Court judges in...
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 following is a conference announcement from the Intellectual Property & Technology Law Society] The MHRD IP Chairs at the National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) and the Cochin...
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)...
Guest Post by Shibani Ghosh, Research Associate, Centre for Policy Research and former Legal Consultant to the CIC The Supreme Court’s judgment in Namit Sharma v Union of India with respect to...
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...
Ananth Padmanabhan, a Madras High Court advocate, has authored a most interesting book about intellectual property remedies. With over 700 pages of commentary and several annexes...
The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi invites papers for a national-level seminar titled “Financial Law & Policy: An Inter-disciplinary Approach” to...