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Making Public Interest Litigation More Public
Sudhir Krishnaswamy and Rajgopal Saikumar had this interesting piece in the Hindu this weekend cautioning the judiciary against Public Interest Litigation that is used by groups already well represented in the political process who may …
Continue readingNALSA v Union of India: What Courts Say, What Courts Do
The Supreme Court has recently delivered an important judgment in the case of National Legal Services Authority v Union of India (NALSA). A two-judge bench comprising Justices Radhakrishnan and Sikri declared, among other things, that …
Continue readingCall for Proposals: Contemporary Issues in Indian Public Law
The Faculty of Law, University of Oxford and the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne are organising a workshop on Contemporary issues in Indian Public Law on the 10th and 11th of April 2015 in …
Continue readingPicture Perfect – Privacy for the Indian Poor
Guest Submission by Goutham Shivshankar, Advocate, Madras High Court One would imagine that privacy, as a concept, is neutral towards success. By this, I mean that the right to privacy would entail that we are …
Continue readingDAKSH-India Together Data Journalism
DAKSH and India Together have jointly instituted the DAKSH-India Together Fellowship to encourage data journalism centered around elections. Two of our fellows have written insightful pieces, one on women MPs http://indiatogether.org/low-presence-of-women-in-lok-sabha-government and the other on …
Continue readingNational Legal Services Authority versus Union of India — Preliminary Reactions
This is a guest post by Danish Sheikh, an advocate who is presently doing a masters in law at Michigan Law School. In 2004, Kokila, a hijra in Karnataka, was brutally raped by ten …
Continue readingReligion and Caste in the Constituent Assembly
In the current issue of EPW, Rowena Robinson in an article titled, “Minority Rights vs Caste Claims: Indian Christians and the Predicament of Law” turns to the Constituent Assembly debates to explore how dalit Christians …
Continue readingJustice in “Open” Courts
Guest Post by Abhinav Sekhri I recently happened to visit the Supreme Court of India where I required a “proximity-pass” for gaining entry to the building. Coming from the Bombay High Court where entry is …
Continue readingArvind Elangovan on Non-Nationalist Readings of India’s Constitution
Arvind Elangovan, the biographer of BN Rau, has written an interesting paper. He summarizes the new directions in Indian constitutional history studies after Granville Austin. Arvind says we must separate the histories of constitutionalism from …
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