India’s new trafficking bill relies exclusively on the stick to achieve its goals. It will fail. Smt Maneka Gandhi, the Indian minister for women & child development, is likely to table...
In this report we aim to analyse the socio-economic impact of judicial delay on the affected parties (such as, under-trial prisoners, corporations, government) and on the subject matter of the...
HLS Library Book Talk | Supreme Court of India: The Beginnings I’m coming at this obliquely, firstly, because I’m a scholar of the colonial period of India’s legal history. And so where I end, George...
This post is the fourth in a loosely-linked set of posts on colonial continuity in the Indian judiciary. Previous posts can be found here, here and here. In my previous post on India’s ‘British...
Juris Diurna 16th June to 30th June {2018} Issue 6 Hi, welcome to our legal newsletter Juris Diurna, we publish this newsletter fortnightly. Magazine Cover of a Woman Breastfeeding is not obscene:...
Following the footprints of state governments in Karnataka and Odisha, Rajasthan state government has also proposed to extend domicile reservation in National Law University, Jodhpur. Last year, an...
Juris Diurna 1st June to 15th June {2018} Issue 5 Hi, welcome to our legal newsletter Juris Diurna, we publish this newsletter fortnightly. SC temporarily allows reservation in promotions for SC/ST...
The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016 (‘the Bill’), has failed the transgender community, and severely waters down the guarantees of the NALSA judgement. (Its several critiques...
2017 was a rather eventful year of the Supreme Court of India which delivered some important and unexpected judgments. The year also witnessed the retirement of 4 judges including 2 Chief Justices...
The International Journal of Constitutional Law has just published its special issue on Asian law on its website. The entire issue is freely available for a limited time, and much of the content...