The Law, Governance, and Development Initiative at Azim Premji University has a two year post open for a Graduate Fellow. Please see this link for more details. Please note that the original deadline of June …
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Polity in India Blog
There is a new blog up – Polity in India: Observations on Legal and Political Developments in India – that might be of interest to some readers. A number of the contributors are lawyers and …
Continue readingHow the CIC missed the wood for the trees
The Right to Information Act, 2005, with its 31 sections and two schedules, is one of the outstanding legislations of Indian Parliament. In view of its inherent potential to ensure accountability of the institutions of …
Continue readingArbitrariness, “Doctrinal Looseness”, and other things…
In Chapter 6 of my book, Due Process of Law (published in 2011) [p. 177-206], I had argued that the “arbitrariness” test under Indian constitutional law, famously articulated by Justice Bhagwati in the Royappa and …
Continue readingThe Times Publishing House’s Fight Against Free Speech
As has been reported at Spicy IP and Legally India the Times Publishing House – which owns Times of India – is threatening to sue for defamation a 22 year old student blogger for one …
Continue readingSecond Azim Premji University International Conference on Law, Governance and Development
Call for Papers Second Azim Premji University International Conference on Law, Governance and DevelopmentRight to Welfare: Education, Food and WorkThe Law, Governance and Development Initiative of Azim Premji University, Bangalore is holding its Second International …
Continue readingReforming Indian Law Schools
Update: The full report is available here. It seems that this is so far in the draft stage only. Perhaps the Committee is still accepting suggestions. Readers may be interested in an important report that emphasises the …
Continue readingAn Analysis of the NAC’s Proposal on the Pre-Legislative Process (Part II)
In part I of this post I discussed how the NAC has a new proposal out for changing the process by which Ministries draft rules and legislation. In the last post I examined the process …
Continue readingCBI autonomy and the Courts
In this article in today’s Indian Express I argue that the courts are not the answer to bringing about CBI autonomy. The initiative has to come from Parliament.
Continue readingAn Analysis of the NAC’s Proposal on the Pre-Legislative Process (Part I)
Last week, the National Advisory Council made a little noticed recommendation concerning what they term the pre-legislative process. The name “pre-legislative process” is a bit of a misnomer in that their recommendation concerned how ministries …
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