We bring you a guest post from Aradhya Sethia, a very bright third year student of the National Law School, Bangalore. The Vice of Excessive Delegation in the NJAC Bill, 2014: The Devil is in Details...
AUG 25 2014 PETITIONS CHALLENGING THE END TO COLLEGIUM SYSTEM BEING HEARD TODAY COURT NO. 4 AT 10.30 A.M. BEFORE : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE...
With the passage of the 121st Constitutional Amendment Bill and the attendant National Judicial Appointments Commission Bill, the collegium system of appointments, now 21 years in the making, is...
The Law Commission has come out with its 245th Report, titled “Arrears and Backlog: Creating Additional Judicial (Wo)manpower.” The Report largely reflects the submissions made by the Law...
Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have passed the Constitution (121st Amendment) Bill 2014 and the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2014 simultaneously. The Bill seeking to amend the Constitution makes...
Guest post by M. S. Ganesh and Venkatesh Nayak. M. S. Ganesh is Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India and Venkatesh Nayak is with the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, New Delhi...
In this short, but finely spun, piece, Suhrith Parthasarathy examines the Supreme Court’s recent contortions over the death penalty. He argues that the forthcoming Law Commission report is an...
AUG 6 Notice to Government on 10-year quota extension LIVELAW REPORT ON SHAMAD BASHEER’S PETITION SEEKING OVERRIDING POWERS OF RTI ACT IN DELHI HIGH COURT petition seeking greater...
In a recent article, Badrinath Srinivasan examines how India’s courts appoint arbitrators. Under the 1996 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, parties to an international arbitration, who are...
The Section on Law and South Asian Studies of the Association of American Law Schools invites papers for its session during the 2015 AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, which is scheduled for...