5-7 December 2019 at Melbourne Law School The organisers are pleased to announce a workshop on “Constitutional Resilience in South Asia”. Concerns about the stability of democracies, even long...
Applications are invited for 2-3 visiting fellows to spend 4-5 weeks at Melbourne Law School in 2019, as part of the Indian Equality Law Programme. The Indian Equality Law Visiting Fellowships are...
This post is the fourth in a loosely-linked set of posts on colonial continuity in the Indian judiciary. Previous posts can be found here, here and here. In my previous post on India’s ‘British...
OUP has published my book “Rule of Law in India- A Quest for Reason”. I have made an effort to analyse the reasons for the dichotomy in India’s rule of law framework. On paper...
Here are four recent pieces I have written on constitutional backsliding and democratic decay in India. For more global/comparative perspectives, readers may be interested in these recent articles by...
CALL FOR PAPERS – NOW OPEN Comparative Perspectives on Administrative Law in India Workshop, 6 – 7 April 2018, Delhi, India Hosted by Jindal Global Law School – Melbourne Law School...
Much of our legal system is built not merely on the foundation of the black letter of the law, but also the manner in which judges interpret and give meaning to these words. The words “procedure...
Posted on behalf of MyLaw 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of the end of the Emergency in India – perhaps the darkest period in our recent political history. The Emergency was declared following the...
My first post for this blog was about Indian judges who had previously served in state and Central legislatures. At that time, I noted that ‘despite the fact that no Supreme Court judge appointed...
(A guest post by Eugene R. Fidell) [Eugene R. Fidell teaches Military Justice at Yale Law School and edits the Global Military Justice Reform blog, globalmjreform.blogspot.com. His book, Military...