The latest issue of Frontline (hitting the stands tomorrow) has a cover story on death penalty in India. The issue contains articles dealing with the following matters: Cover story...
The Jindal Global Law Review is out with the first part of a special double issue on Law, Culture, and Queer Politics in Neoliberal Times. Several of the contributions focus their attention on...
Invitation: ==================================================== World Bank New Delhi Seminar Series Should the Right to Property Return? Namita Wahi (Harvard Law School and...
The Copyright Amendment Act, 2012 recently passed by both houses of parliament promises to thoroughly revise the laws currently governing the Indian Copyright regime. This legislative moment...
A short book of mine, The Indian Constitution (Oxford India Short Introductions), will be published by Oxford University Press towards the end of this month, and is now available for pre-order...
Mainstream media has been abuzz with news of a paralytic strike by the Bar Council of India (BCI), protesting against the divestiture of their control over legal education via the proposed Higher...
Abhinav’s post on the scope of protection under Article 20(3) provides an extremely interesting insight into the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence. Here, I adopt those legal standards (which some...
(The following announcement is being posted on behalf of the National Law School of India Review) The National Law School of India Review is now accepting submissions for its upcoming issue...
In many ways it is not important to discuss who was appointed as the new President of the UK Supreme Court today. It is certainly more important to discuss who wasn’t. The fact that Baroness...
Encryption of data is a means to secure and sensitive private data and prevent third parties from obtaining that information. It is a part of our everyday life, and we come across encryption each...
In a grave setback for the ‘Right to Information’ movement, the Delhi High Court in the case of Registrar of Companies v. Dharmendra Kumar has ruled that the Right to Information Act, 2005 will not...
The stage is set for a major campaign in favour of commutation of death sentences awarded to 12 convicts, with Justice Prabha Sridevan’s excellent piece in The Hindu today highlighting the case...
This month will mark the birth centenary of Justice Hans Raj Khanna, one of the most important judges to have served on the Supreme Court of India. In a short piece in the current issue of Caravan, I...