Elizabeth Kolsky, whose pathbreaking book we reviewed here has written an opinion piece in the DAWN, highlighting how the Raymond Davis case follows a pattern established in colonial India where...
I have co-authored this post with Mrinal Satish, JSD Candidate at Yale Law School. The Supreme Court’s decision this week in Aruna Shanbaug v. Union of India raises important questions about the...
1.Shekhar Hattangadi’s comment in Afternoon Despatch and Courier on Supreme Court’s recent ‘What the hell is going on in this country’ remark. 2.My critical comment on the...
In this piece in today’s Hindu I discuss the need for more legal infrastructure to tackle implementation failures in social welfare policy in India, building off the idea of the proposed...
This guest post has been contributed by Mrinal Satish, JSD candidate at the Yale Law School. Mr Satish has taught criminal law and procedure for several years and is working on a thesis examining...
I was flabbergasted to read about the fake courts in Coimbatore. The economics of an illegal act generally means that there has to be a substantial benefit, monetary or otherwise, from such illegal...
PRS Legislative Research is seeking exceptional, highly-motivated young Indian citizens for the Legislative Assistants to Members of Parliament (LAMP) Fellowship. The fellowship provides invaluable...
Inspired by the recent ad-campaign by the British Humanist Association calling upon people without religion to say so in their census data, I had a look at the Indian census form. While question 3 on...
I have recently had the chance to collect some thoughts on activism by the Supreme Court in this recent article in the Times of India. In this article, I argue that there are three key areas in which...
NLU Jodhpur’s Trade, Law and Development journal is bringing out a special issue edited by Prof. B.S Chimni on TWAIL (Third World Approaches to International Law). The issue is dedicated to the...
Anyone who has studied or taught in Indian lawschools will have confronted the widespread culture of plagiarism that exists. This is not unique to the legal academy, as Manjari Katju charts in the...
In this piece in the most recent edition of the EPW I and my co-authors – Anjana Agarwal, Vrinda Bhandari, Ankit Goel, Karishma Kakkar, Reeba Muthalaly, Vivek Shivakumar, Meera Sreekumar, Surya...
I wanted to flag two articles that both provide important ways of thinking about law the state and our colonial legacy. Siddharth Narain in EPW traces the history of sedition laws and asks pertinent...