The September 9 opinion of the United States District Court (Central District of California) in the case of Log Cabin Republicans v. USA is available here. In its 85 page opinion, the court found fault …
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Courage Craft and Contention: Human Rights and the Judicial Imagination (Transcript of public lectures by Justice A P Shah and Prof. Baxi
On the 12th of June, the Alternative Law Forum (ALF) celebrated its tenth anniversary with a public lecture by Justice A P Shah and Prof. Upendra Baxi on the topic Courage Craft and Contention: Human …
Continue readingWhy police and judiciary have taken Siras’s side
AMU’s gay lecturer Ramchandra Siras, was first illegally filmed in a compromising position with another man, then suspended by AMU. Though reinstated by the Allahabad High Court, he was found dead — in suspicious circumstances …
Continue readingNaz Foundation case: A response to K.V.Dhananjay
My last post reproducing K.V.Dhananjay’s view that the SLPs in the Naz Foundation case do not survive after the Supreme Court’s judgment in the Laloo Prasad case has led to an interesting discussion in the …
Continue readingNaz Foundation case: Update
The Naz Foundation case is coming up before the Chief Justice’s Bench tomorrow. It is listed as Item No.8. The causelist shows that there are as many as 13 SLPs which will be heard together. …
Continue readingNUJS Law Review Special Issue on the Naz Foundation Case
The NUJS law review has just come out with its special volume dedicated to the landmark Naz Foundation judgment that effectively decriminalised same sex activities in India. Pursuant to its tradition of being an open …
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Naz Foundation and the “Order of Nature”: Nurturing Vagueness in the Law?
Vikram undertook a thorough and incisive review of the Delhi High Court decision in the Naz Foundation case in three remarkable posts on …
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