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...
The US Supreme Court handed down its decision in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius yesterday and upheld the individual mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act. In...
As we know, not a great deal has been written on the founding of India’s Constitution. Kalyani Ramnath, who teaches legal history at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore...
(I must thank Professor Ali Qazilbash at the Department of Law and Policy, Lahore University of Management Sciences for answering some of my basic questions concerning this controversy and...
Minority Quotas: Failed Lessons The Hindu today published an article on their Editorial Page authored by me on minority quotas. Have reproduced it here...
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...