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Legal Education: Protesting the BCI’s Consultative Deficit

On July 22, 2012 By Shamnad Basheer In Uncategorized

Mainstream media has been abuzz with news of a paralytic strike by the Bar Council of India (BCI), protesting against the divestiture of their control over legal education via the proposed Higher Education and Research …

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Information Technology Act, Mandatory Disclosure, and Self Incrimination

On July 17, 2012 By Vikram Raghavan In Uncategorized

Abhinav’s post on the scope of protection under Article 20(3) provides an extremely interesting insight into the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence. Here, I adopt those legal standards (which some clarifications) to test the validity of Section …

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NLSIR: Call for Papers

On July 16, 2012 By Umakanth Varottil In Uncategorized

(The following announcement is being posted on behalf of the National Law School of India Review) The National Law School of India Review is now accepting submissions for its upcoming issue – Volume 25(1). The National Law …

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India’s Higher Judiciary: A Male Bastion

On July 12, 2012 By Anup Surendranath In Uncategorized

In many ways it is not important to discuss who was appointed as the new President of the UK Supreme Court today. It is certainly more important to discuss who wasn’t. The fact that Baroness …

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Encryption and Self-Incrimination

On July 12, 2012 By Vikram Raghavan In Uncategorized

Encryption of data is a means to secure and sensitive private data and prevent third parties from obtaining that information. It is a part of our everyday life, and we come across encryption each time …

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A Dangerous Precedent for the ‘Right to Information’ in India

On July 8, 2012 By Vikram Raghavan In Uncategorized

In a grave setback for the ‘Right to Information’ movement, the Delhi High Court in the case of Registrar of Companies v. Dharmendra Kumar has ruled that the Right to Information Act, 2005 will not …

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Campaign for commutation

On July 6, 2012 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

The stage is set for a major campaign in favour of commutation of death sentences awarded to 12 convicts, with Justice Prabha Sridevan’s excellent piece in The Hindu today highlighting the case of the 13 …

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Remembering Justice Khanna

On June 29, 2012 By Madhav Khosla In Uncategorized

This month will mark the birth centenary of Justice Hans Raj Khanna, one of the most important judges to have served on the Supreme Court of India. In a short piece in the current issue …

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Chief Justice Roberts Exercises the Swing Vote as the US Supreme Court Upholds the ‘Individual Mandate’ in Obama’s Health Care Law

On June 29, 2012 By Anup Surendranath In Uncategorized

The US Supreme Court handed down its decision in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius yesterday and upheld the individual mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act. In this post, my attempt is to provide a …

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We the People

On June 22, 2012 By Madhav Khosla In Uncategorized

As we know, not a great deal has been written on the founding of India’s Constitution. Kalyani Ramnath, who teaches legal history at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, has a new article on …

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