Katherine Lemmons and Jeff Redding are seeking scholars to collaborate on an exciting new project that examine the growth of non-state providers of Islamic law and governance. Project Statement In...
A very interesting clarification from the Cabinet Secretariat on the legal basis for intercepting telephone conversations. It would be useful if the government could release the Cabinet...
In a week where Indians have been discussing institutional reform, Mariana Mota Prado of the University of Toronto, School of Law, published her paper suggesting Institutional bypasses as a way of...
Accountability Initiative, an initiative that focuses on accountability in governance and operates out of the Centre for Policy Research, is looking to hire a Research Associate. Further details are...
Tarunabh captured some of the reactions to the Anna Hazare campaign in his post here, where he also warned that the problem of corruption is a complex multi-factorial issue, not easily amenable to...
A remarkable opinion published in the Organiser, mouthpiece of the RSS, has vigorously opposed censorship generally, and the ban on Joseph Lelyveld’s book on Gandhi in particular. It is not...
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Readers may be interested in two excellent pieces analysing the recent ‘awakening’ against corruption in India: Shuddhabrata Sengupta writing in Kafila and Mihir Sharma in the Indian...
The South Asia Initiative at Harvard recently hosted a panel discussion on constitutionalism in Pakistan. Speakers included, Justice Khalil-ur-Rehman Ramday, Supreme Court of Pakistan, Osama...
The Legal Information Institute (LII), an organisation at the forefront of driving open access in all things related to law, launches in India in a big way. The Legal Information Institute of India...
Nearly sixty-one years since its formal inauguration, the Indian Constitution still remains a contested site of “national” consciousness. Yet the Constitution itself is both constitutive...
Pratap Bhanu Mehta will be delivering three lectures at Brown University next month. Each looks simply fascinating and those in the vicinity should most certainly attend. The first lecture is on the...
Talha Rahman had written earlier on the issue of lawyers’ deciding to boycott certain kinds of “accused”. He now has an update to his earlier post as below. In A.S. Mohammad Rafi v...