Three funded PhD scholarship opportunities are available based in the Manchester Law School at Manchester Metropolitan University – including one scholarship entitled Caste, discrimination, law and social justice. These scholarships are awarded by competition. For …
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Going Beyond the Ramp – Making Accessibility Work for People with Mental Disabilities
(Guest post by Ashna Ashesh) In the conclusion to their book, Disability and New Media, Kate Ellis and Mike Kent make an incisive observation about the choice of modes of providing accessibility – “These choices …
Continue readingDraft State Equality Bill
This blog has followed the issue of discrimination for a long time. So has my own research. I have been involved in drafting a comprehensive antidiscrimination bill for some time now. After a discussion at …
Continue readingVasujith Ram
Our newest contributor is Vasujith Ram. Vasujith is a penultimate year student at the National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata, pursuing the B.A.LLB. (Hons.) degree. He has previously worked with Justice Muralidhar, Senior Advocate …
Continue readingDouglas McDonald
I am very pleased to introduce Douglas McDonald as a full-time contributor. Douglas is a tipstaff (judicial clerk) at the Supreme Court of New South Wales. He previously worked as a solicitor and migration agent …
Continue readingThe Supreme Court’s Uncertain Jurisdiction in the s.377 Curative Petition: A Response to Rupali Samuel
(Guest post by Alok Prasanna) Since there is no dispute on the correctness of the judgments, the wrongness of Koushal or the facts cited, where Rupali and I fundamentally disagree I guess is on the …
Continue readingThe Koushal Curative and Death Penalty Review Petitions: Inherent Powers & Finality of Judgments
(Guest post by Shivendra Singh) This note is a comment on the inherent powers of the Supreme Court of India to modify, recall and set aside its final judgments and orders. Part I of the note explains …
Continue readingAfter the Raj: British Judges in Pakistan
Guest post by Douglas McDonald As I have previously written, not all British judges left India after Independence; a small number of these judges ‘stayed on’, even remaining in service into the 1970s. Several British …
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NEW ARRIVALS WITH REVIEWS
Gautam Bhatia’s book is a fascinating exploration of the principles and issues involved in free speech jurisprudence. While other books on the subject are content with giving instances, and lengthy citations from the judgments of …
Continue readingRepublic Day event: Discussion of the Constituent Assembly Debates and CLPR’s launch of the Constitution Assembly Debates website
To mark Republic Day this year, the Centre for Law and Policy Research, Bangalore is organising a discussion on ‘The Constituent Assembly Debates in Contemporary Times’ on Monday, January 26th at the Karnataka Judicial Academy, …
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