In a book published this month by the Eastern Book Company, entitled “Due Process of Law”, I analyze the doctrine of substantive due process, in particular its evolution in American constitutional...
In the latest episode of Barkha Dutt’s ‘We the People’, I argue that the Anna Hazare movement is driven by the urban middle-class, and this is reflected in the peculiarities of the...
The country is in the midst of a huge suspense, with Team Anna hardening its demands to end Anna Hazare’s fast. When he was released (or rather released himself) from Tihar Jail, the Team Anna...
As the ‘movement’ around Anna Hazare gathers steam, I wrote this op-ed in yesterday’s The Indian Express. It takes further some ideas I was exploring here .
Readers may be interested in accessing Delhi University’s archive of digitised books whose copyright has expired. The archive has some useful legal material.
Rajya Sabha has just begun the process of removal of Justice Soumitra Sen with Sitaram Yechury speaking on the motion. The debate can be watched live from here. The Report of the Inquiry...
Our Independence Day also marks the 150th anniversary of the Madras High Court. The Hindu published an excellent opinion editorial on the subject by Justice Chandru who is a sitting judge. He calls...
When Ram Jethmalani exposed for the first time how the Central Government used the instrument of ratification to cover up corruption (on August 6 at CJAR convention in New Delhi -see Events page), it...
Liberalisation transformed India’s economy and workforce. Government employees have been just as affected as their private counterparts, and perhaps even more so, as the government has...
The Bombay High Court has rejected the petitions challenging the film certification granted to the film, Aarakshan. In this judgment, the Bench, relying on the Supreme Court judgment...
[The following are excerpts from the Supreme Court Judge Justice A.K.Ganguly’s speech at the release of the book on Corruption and Human Rights in India written by C.Raj Kumar, Vice...
The media’s reportage of Nandini Sundar judgment mostly focussed on the judgment, rather than on how the petitioners fought and won the case, untrammelled by the dilatory tactics of the...
I just wanted to flag a number of new articles that raise interesting questions that are directly relevant to our discussions on Law and Other Things. Nivedita Menon, in the recent issue of the EPW...