I recently had an article I co-authored with Nawreen Sattar come out in the Fordham International Law Journal entitled, “When Corruption is an Emergency: ‘Good Governance’ Coups and...
India’s first compulsory licensing order in the post TRIPS patent era garnered more attention than one might have expected. The NY Times reported it, as did a host of other renowned papers...
[Continued from Part I] II. The Context 1. A Dilemma At the outset we are confronted with a dilemma of sorts: given that our primary focus is on the legal case against Assange, how much weightage...
The W.B. National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata announces, in association with Professors from the National University of Singapore, its inaugural Summer Law School Programme to be...
I. Introduction The problem with attempting a legal analysis of Julian Assange’s case is that one does not know quite where to start. If I resort to a little fanciful imagery, the facts and...
The Socio-Legal Review, the student edited peer reviewed journal of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore is holding the 2nd Annual SLR Essay Competition. Students from law schools...
The Centre for Health Law, Ethics and Technology, headed by Dipika Jain, at Jindal Global Law School has a new report out on the Impact of the Naz Foundation Judgment. Through a set of interviews it...
In this article published in the recent volume of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (unformatted SSRN version available here), I have discussed the role of the concept of dignity in human rights...
In celebration of the 100th year of the S.J.D. Programme at Harvard, the Harvard Law School S.J.D. Association is organising the Global Legal Education Forum where professors and S.J.D. alumni from...
Anup Surendranath’s recent post on the Madhya Pradesh anti-cow slaughter law is an interesting and timely intervention on the nature of the broader legal discourse on cow slaughter. It provides us...
A leading group of intellectuals, analysts, and policy makers – Sunil Khilnani, Rajiv Kumar, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Prakash Menon, Nandan Nilekani, Srinath Raghavan, Shyam Saran...
I saw this well written piece by Pratap Bhanu Mehta in today’s Indian Express on the Prime Minister’s allegations surrounding foreign funding of NGOs agitating around Bt cotton and...
I wanted to bring to your attention this exciting conference at Harvard Law School later this month! Global Legal Education Forum Harvard Law School March 23-25, 2012 Conference Organizers: Harvard...