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.
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Book Review: Kama Maclean, “British India, White Australia” (UNSW Press, 2020)
India’s and Australia’s different experiences in the British Commonwealth revolved around race: British India and White Australia were based on race ideologies that justified forms fo colonialism and exclusion. (p 234) This month, Law and …
Continue readingJob Announcement – Research Associate position at CLPR in the CAD India Project
Centre for Law and Policy Research, Bangalore (CLPR) is a not-for-profit dedicated to making the Constitution work for everyone through law and policy research, social and governance interventions and strategic impact litigation. The Constitutional and Civic …
Continue readingCFA: Indian Equality Law Fellowship (Deadline: 15 February 2020)
The Opportunity The Indian Equality Law Visiting Fellowship is aimed at capacity-building for early career scholars. Applications are invited for two or three visiting fellows to spend one month at Melbourne Law School (MLS) preferably …
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CJI Office under RTI – An Explainer
On 13 November, 2019 the Constitution bench of the Supreme Court of India in the case of Central Public Information Officer, Supreme Court of India v. Subhash Chandra Agarwal has held that the office of …
Continue readingSeeking Refuge in India: Ulaganathan and ors v Ministry of External Affairs
Introduction In August, the Supreme Court will hear petitions on whether “illegal immigrants” in India are entitled to recognition as refugees. These proceedings are intrinsically linked to the Centre’s broader efforts to remove stateless Rohingya …
Continue readingProposing the Independent Institutions Bill
In a recent column in the Indian Express, I have argued for the need to enact an Independent Institutions Bill. The point of the Bill is to guarantee institutional independence, functional autonomy and public accountability …
Continue readingConstitutional Resilience in South Asia Workshop: Call for Papers
5-7 December 2019 at Melbourne Law School The organisers are pleased to announce a workshop on “Constitutional Resilience in South Asia”. Concerns about the stability of democracies, even long-established democracies, have been rising globally. As a …
Continue readingIndian Equality Law Visiting Fellowships
Applications are invited for 2-3 visiting fellows to spend 4-5 weeks at Melbourne Law School in 2019, as part of the Indian Equality Law Programme. The Indian Equality Law Visiting Fellowships are designed for advanced-stage …
Continue reading“Intensely Human”: A Brief Biographical Sketch of Edmund Elmar Mack
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 judges’ …
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