The recent arrest and prosecution of two Italian navy marines (Massimilano Latorre and Salvatore Girone), on board the Enrica Lexie, in connection with the death of two Indian fishermen (Valentine...
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has cited Rajendra Singh Rana v. Swami Prasad Maurya (February 2007) and Jagjit Singh v. State of Haryana (December 2006) in its order that...
As different networks are reporting the Pakistani Supreme Court has ruled that Prime Minister Gilani is no longer a member of parliament and cannot be PM (the short order can be found here). ...
The Macro/Finance Group at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy has work opportunities for lawyers on interesting and important policy work connected with India’s economic reform...
In a rather provocative post around two years ago, I bemoaned the fact that a disproportionately large number of National Law University (NLU) graduates opt for “corporate” careers...
The Law, Governance & Development Research Initiative of Azim Premji University is looking to recruit interested and committed young graduates and post graduates for the positions of Graduate and...
In today’s Indian Express I have this op-ed on how two and three judge benches of the Supreme Court are increasingly deciding cases involving substantial questions of constitutional law (think...
A new book, Fates of Political Liberalism in the British Post-Colony, has just been published by Cambridge University Press. The book contains essays on “the legal complex” in post...
This scheme is for experienced researchers based elsewhere who may wish to come to the Oxford Law Faculty for a 2 year research fellowship. ‘Experienced’ is defined as someone with a PhD or at least...
Robin Bradley Kar at the University of Illinois Law School has a new set of articles out on the origin of the modern Western notion of the rule of law (it can be found on SSRN here, here, and here)...
The Azim Premji University in Bangalore recently conducted a fantastic conference on legal reform. Some members of this blog – Nick Robinson, Arun K Thiruvengadam and myself – were lucky...
What’s with this Kolaveri about John Doe Injunctions? – Abhik Majumdar [This is a revised version of an article originally published in the Down to Earth website] On 29 March 2012, at the...
Arun K. Thiruvengadam and Piyush Joshi have published a new paper on the judiciary and Indian telecom regulation, in the current issue of the journal Regulation and Governance. The paper is part of a...