With almost no news attention a three judge bench of the Supreme Court agreed last week that a petition challenging the Right to Education Act should be heard by five-judges later this year. As many...
The current issue of the Frontline magazine focuses on the changing debate over personal laws. In the lead story, I argue that the fragmentation of religious authority, greater debate within...
Kalyani Ramnath has recently published an excellent article that traces the history of the jury system in India. The Colonial Difference between Law and Fact: Notes on the Criminal Jury in India This...
My colleague Fei-Hsien Wang and I have been developing a set of digital resources for those interested in legal history, particularly of Asia. The website, hosted by the Centre for History and...
Sidharth Chauhan has this piece out in Bar & Bench on assessing teacher performance in law schools. As he points out although there are many excellent law teachers in Indian law schools there are...
Implementation challenges are one of the most pressing legal problems in India today. There are many laws and policies on the books that in reality are under-implemented (often dramatically), whether...
The Vice-President has called an all-party meeting to discuss changes in Rajya Sabha rules which will facilitate the House to function smoothly. As I have argued in this article in the Seminar...
Some readers might be interested in Livelaw’s interview with George Gadbois, a contributor to this blog, who talks about his book “Judges of the Supreme Court of India: 1950-1989”...
Position: Researcher for Project titled, “Land Rights, Environmental Governance and Inclusive Sustainable Development in India” at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. Qualifications...
We bring you a guest post from Shambo Nandy, a recent graduate of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences who now works with Raju Ramachandran, a leading Supreme Court counsel...
Strange are the things that can save a human being’s life — and it is a Times of India news report that saved Magan Lal from being executed this morning (Thursday, 8th August) in Jabalpur...
In this interesting 1958 decision, the Bombay High Court discusses the legal consequences of Ambedkar’s mass conversions to Buddhism. The event in question took place in Nagpur in 1956...