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Tag: Supreme Court of India

Economic Quota And The Basic Structure Doctrine – Exploring The Oddities (Part 1)

On February 20, 2019 By Anant Sangal In Constitutional Law, Equality, Reservation, Supreme Court of India

This article is the first part of a two-part series on the 103rd amendment which provides for a maximum of ten percent reservation to the economically weaker sections of citizens, and deals with a brief history of the jurisprudence surrounding reservations in India.

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Yet another creation of crime!

On February 15, 2019 By Aditya Saraswat and Anmol Jain In Discrimination, Fundamental Rights, Karnataka High Court, Legislation Analysis, Legislative Reform, Privacy, Supreme Court of India

This post discusses the approach in the Lok Sabha from regulating commercial surrogacy to criminalizing it and how such transition is in conflict with the guaranteed rights.

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The Honorable Dissent: Who said, what? – Part II

On February 9, 2018 By Namratha Murugeshan In Supreme Court of India

Guest post by Namratha Murugeshan It has almost been a month since the four puisne judges of the Supreme Court addressed the public regarding a ‘crisis’ in the Indian judiciary. A lot has been said …

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Vignettes – Man Mohan Das and the Indian Supreme Court

On February 6, 2018 By Guest In Supreme Court of India

Guest Post by Abhinav Sekhri On March 12, 1968, Justice Amar Nath Grover had completed a month of being on the Indian Supreme Court. His appointment was one of the last acts of K.N. Wanchoo …

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Independent Judiciary Must for Liberal Democracy: J Chelameswar

On January 28, 2018 By Guest In Supreme Court of India

Supreme Court Justice Jasti Chelameswar addressed the attendees at the launch of a new book about the origins of the Supreme Court on Monday, where he spoke about the need for legal scholarship to tackle …

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The Honorable Dissent: Who said, what?

On January 23, 2018 By Namratha Murugeshan In Supreme Court of India

Guest post by Namratha Murugeshan Friday, the 12th of January, 2018 witnessed a historic vocalization of dissent in the Indian judiciary albeit outside the courtroom. In an unprecedented press conference, four puisne judges of the …

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The Historical Distrust of Arbitration in India

On March 19, 2017 By Rohit De In Uncategorized

I wanted to bring the readers attention to Parul Kumar’s new article on the treatment of substantive allegations of fraud in arbitration, published in Arbitration International, a journal published by the  London Court of International …

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Supreme Court Law Clerks

On February 2, 2015 By Abhinav Chandrachud In Uncategorized

A paper I wrote on the institution of the law clerkship on the Supreme Court of India was published in the International Journal of the Legal Profession, and is now available for free online. A …

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Judicial Appointments in India

On May 28, 2014 By Abhinav Chandrachud In Uncategorized

In a new book published by Oxford University Press this month, entitled “The Informal Constitution: Unwritten Criteria in Selecting Judges for the Supreme Court of India”, I explore the prevalence of three informal eligibility criteria …

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How Green is my Supreme Court?

On January 21, 2014 By Rohit De In Uncategorized

What has been the record of the Supreme Court in protecting the environment? Geetanjoy Sahu in a recent article in the Economic and Political Weekly examines every Supreme Court case dealing with enviromental issues from …

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