In this piece, Dipika Jain, introduces the arguments she makes in her paper titled “Law-Making by and for the People: A Case for Pre-legislative Processes in India” that has been published in the...
Our second part of discussions under the New Scholarship series around public law themed articles will include pieces featured in the recently released Volume 41 Issue 2 of the 2020 Volume of the...
Civil society organisation DAKSH has released a new book titled Justice Frustrated: The Systemic Impact of Delay in Indian Courts. The book is an attempt to understand the reasons for delay in Indian...
Shruti Vidyasagar is a lawyer based in Bengaluru, with a diverse legal practice spanning 15 years. She works with DAKSH as a consulting editor, and has co-edited its two flagship reports, State of...
Shruthi Naik is a lawyer and research associate at DAKSH. Her areas of interest include access to justice and legal system reform. She writes frequently on these topics and has worked on several of...
This article argues that juridical orders shall be subjected to a Basic Structure Review. Part II extends the arguments given to subject ordinary laws and executive action to a Basic Structure Review...
This article argues that juridical orders shall be subjected to a Basic Structure Review. Part I traces case laws wherein ordinary laws and executive action have been subjected to a Basic Structure...
In this letter Prof. Nigam invokes Obama’s DNC speech and emphasizes the importance of having faith in our Supreme Court while simultaneously critically questioning it, especially during the current...
The Indian constitution is in many ways the grundnorm for the nation’s legal system. It is from the constitution that various functionaries of the Indian state get their powers.
Prof. Nigam Nuggehalli is the Dean, School of Law at BML Munjal University. Before this, he has been associated as a faculty with the National Law School of India University Bangalore, School of...