In a previous post I discussed some research I had done where I found in the last ten years the Chief Justice had never been in dissent in a five judge bench or above. I suggested that this may be...
DEMOCRACY AND CONSTITUTIONALISM IN INDIA: A STUDY OF THE BASIC STRUCTURE DOCTRINE.BY Sudhir Krishnaswamy. OUP, Rs.625, pp.244. This very significant book, released during the LASSNET Conference in...
The following guest post is from Sushant Sinha – a student at the University of Michigan and the force behind the searchable legal databases website Indian Kanoon. Our blog has previously...
[I am pleased to introduce Vinay Sitapati , a promising and dynamic journalist with Indian Express, New Delhi, with keen interest in reporting and exploring legal aspects of contemporary issues. I...
Dr. Rajeev Dhavan, senior advocate and noted legal scholar, has released a new book on free speech in India titled “Publish and be Damned: Censorship and Intolerance in India” (Tulika...
The concept of enemy alien began to intrigue me ever since I attempted to write this article. Therefore, I tried to find its basis in our Constituent Assembly Debates (link introduced on the left)...
Over at the Social Blog, Arun and Aditya interview J.M.Lyngdoh, former Chief Election Commissioner on a range of issues including private funding of elections, and elections to students’ unions...
Our readers had shown interest in the official English translation of the decision by the Supreme Court of Nepal in the gay rights case. The original version (in Nepali) is available here.
The confession, a couple of days ago, by the Chairman of one of India’s leading software companies, to commission of financial irregularities of unimaginable magnitude is shocking. In his statement...
The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative has released the following documents on Police Reforms. 1. Issues Paper on the National Investigative Agency Act, 2008. 2.The Police-Politician Paradigm: What...