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...
By Arushi Garg The Centre for Legal Philosophy and Justice Education at the NALSAR University of Law, conducted a discussion on the operationalisation of Emergency powers in India on 20th July, 2011...
The NCPRI has now made public its alternative proposals outlining the measures needed to tackle corruption. Further details are available here, here and here. There are many substantive differences...
Today’s front page of the Times of India carries a story about a 19 year-old who has been in jail in New Delhi for the past year on the charge that he stole 200 Rs because he could not post...
The Lokpal Bill has been carefully dissected on these pages. I use another scalpel, in this essay in the latest Economic & Political Weekly on what the Anna Hazare movement and India’s...
The Salwa Judum order by the Supreme Court has attracted much comment from members of this blog (see Rohit, Madhav and my reactions). Nandini Sundar, one of the petitioners in the case, has defended...
Socio-Legal Review Call for Submissions Socio-Legal Review welcomes contributions for its eighth volume to be released in 2012. About the Journal The Socio-Legal Review (SLR) is a student-edited...
In the new issue of the International Journal of Constitutional Law, I study the social rights jurisprudence of the Indian Supreme Court. I make many arguments, and the piece is available here. The...
In a provocative piece, C.V.Madhukar asks whether the Indian Parliament is really supreme as a counter to those who question Anna Hazare’s politics. To substantiate his claim that...
The National Advisory Council (NAC) has in its agenda, among other things, giving legislative inputs to the Government. This it does, by preparing draft Bills on important issues. But little is known...