The bird flu attack in West Bengal has raised the question as to who was responsible for not taking prompt steps to contain the epidemic – Centre or the State Government. The State Government has …
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The mystery of Sethusamudram affidavit unravelled
Everyone knows how the Union of India had to withdraw its own affidavit in the Sethusamudram case in the Supreme Court, as the Government felt embarrassed by Paragraph 20 of the affidavit, which averred that …
Continue readingSymposium on SEZs
The Seminar‘s latest issue is on SEZs, a subject which has engaged the attention of our contributors recently. In the Problem, posed by Aseem Shrivastava, an independent economist in Delhi, (who himself is a critic …
Continue readingAre Indian Court Judgments Copyrightable?
In a very interesting copyright case, the Supreme Court of India recently ruled that there can be no copyright in the raw text of court judgments/decisions. Well, we don’t exactly need a court to tell …
Continue readingThe Harbhajan verdict: Why Level 2.8 charge against him fails to carry conviction
I had suggested in my last post that the speculation that Harbhajan Singh might be imposed only fine in lieu of match-ban by the Appeals Commisioner Justice John Hansen was wrong because for a level …
Continue readingThe Organ Trade Debate on IBNLive
In light of the ongoing illegal kidney trade scandal, CNN-IBNLive had a debate on the question of organ trade. Some interesting points were made by the anchor in support of legalizing it including the right …
Continue readingDigitising Legal Scholarship – II
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post on the sorry state of digital archives of legal scholarship in India. Since then, I have had many responses on archives and searches that do exist …
Continue readingThe reach of the Indian State and Legal System in Rural India: Findings of an MIDS study
Today’s Hindu features an article by two academics from the Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS) which reports the findings of an interesting study conducted by the institute. The question the researchers were concerned with …
Continue reading‘Pith and Substance’ in the Characterisation of Statutes: A Comparative Study
Professor Tony Blackshield, Professor Emeritus at Macquarie University, will deliver a lecture on the above subject at a seminar being organised by the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New …
Continue readingRepublic Day Awards: Why Balaji Raghavan needs to be reconsidered
This year’s R-Day awards, as usual, have become controversial. If the non-award of Bharat Ratna was preceded by open lobbying by almost all sections of political spectrum, not all the names of the awardees in …
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