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...
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...
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 of Caravan, I...
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...
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...
(I must thank Professor Ali Qazilbash at the Department of Law and Policy, Lahore University of Management Sciences for answering some of my basic questions concerning this controversy and...
Minority Quotas: Failed Lessons The Hindu today published an article on their Editorial Page authored by me on minority quotas. Have reproduced it here...
The recent arrest and prosecution of two Italian navy marines (Massimilano Latorre and Salvatore Girone), on board the Enrica Lexie, in connection with the death of two Indian fishermen (Valentine...
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has cited Rajendra Singh Rana v. Swami Prasad Maurya (February 2007) and Jagjit Singh v. State of Haryana (December 2006) in its order that...
As different networks are reporting the Pakistani Supreme Court has ruled that Prime Minister Gilani is no longer a member of parliament and cannot be PM (the short order can be found here). ...