[The following announcement is posted on behalf of the National Law School of India Review] The National Law School of India Review (NLSIR) – the flagship journal of the National Law School of India University …
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AuthorAID: Resource for early career Academics
AuthorAID is a free international research community. Key features and benefits of AuthorAID are: a community space for discussion and questions where researchers can benefit from advice and insights from members across the globe access to a range of documents and presentations on …
Continue readingLand Acquisition: The Continuation of a Faulty Legacy?
We are pleased to bring you a guest post by Dhruva Gandhi, Sarangan Rajeshkumar and Shubham Jain, all of whom are II year BALLB (Hons.) students at NLS, Bangalore. The authors may be …
Continue readingKapila Hingorani Foundation Pegasus Scholarship
A joint venture between The Kapila Hingorani Foundation and the prestigious Pegasus Scholarship Trust, the Kapila Hingorani Foundation Pegasus Scholarship aims to provide young lawyers in India a first-hand experience of the workings of the legal system …
Continue readingMysterious mechanism of Group of Ministers in Central Government
GUEST POST BY VENKATESH NAYAK Readers will remember that one of the major decisions that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government took during the first week of its assumption of power in May 2014 was …
Continue readingCiting American Authorities in Free Speech Cases
The Supreme Court’s judgment in the section 66-A case was striking to me for one particular reason. Indian courts have long held that the judgments of American courts can’t reliably be used as precedents while …
Continue reading‘Democracy’s narrow escape’
The Supreme Court’s judgment in Shreya Singhal case has been widely hailed. The title of this post is drawn from one such commentary carried in Telegraph, which also exposes the players and the factors that …
Continue readingOn Freebies and Election Manifestos
A fresh attempt to seek notification of an Act passed years ago
Jay Sayta is a final year law student at the National University of Juridical Sciences Kolkata and runs GLaws.in; India’s first and only website on gaming laws. Jay started GLaws.in in 2010 as a resource …
Continue readingAn account of the hearing in Teesta Setalvad case in the Supreme Court
At the conclusion of the last hearing on February 13, Justice Mukhopadhaya was heard saying ‘We will provide justice to both, but relief to one’. This would have made some wonder whether the denial of …
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