I wanted to bring the readers attention to Parul Kumar’s new article on the treatment of substantive allegations of fraud in arbitration, published in Arbitration International, a journal published by the London Court of International …
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The Perils of Judicial Impulsiveness
Guest Post by Venkat Iyer To say that there has been an alarming fall in the standards of competence and integrity among judges in India in recent decades would, as an exercise in understatement, be …
Continue readingCall for Applications: Short-term research stipends for emerging legal scholars from India
The Chair for Public and Comparative Law at Humboldt University Berlin together with Dr. Benedikt Naarmann offer short-term research stipends for emerging legal scholars from India, who would like to come to Berlin in order …
Continue readingAdmin Law Blog launched
The Admin Law Blog is a forum for the discussion of ideas and developments of interest to scholars of administrative law across the common law world. It aims to connect administrative law scholars to each other and …
Continue readingCPR Land Rights Initiative Conference on “Land rights, Land acquisition and Inclusive Development in India”, March 2 and 3, 2017, India International Centre, Conference Room II
Centre for Policy Research and Centre on Law and Social Transformation are pleased to invite you to a conference on Land Rights, Land Acquisition, and Inclusive Development in India Thursday and Friday, 2-3 March 2017, 9:30 a.m. …
Continue reading100 Legal Luminaries of India — Guest Book Review by Venkat Iyer
100 LEGAL LUMINARIES OF INDIA, no author stated, LexisNexis, New Delhi, 2016, pp 470, Price: Rs 5,995.00 (hbk), ISBN: 978-93-5143-757-4. Even by the standards of vanity publishing, this book will raise many eyebrows for its …
Continue readingOn George H. Gadbois, jr
As reported by Vasujith, George H. Gadbois, jr, passed away on Friday night. This post briefly considers what Vasujith rightly terms Professor Gadbois’s magnum opus, Judges of the Supreme Court of India 1950-1989, and provides …
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George Gadbois, Scholar of the Indian Judiciary, 1936-2017
George H. Gadbois Jr., the preeminent scholar of India’s judiciary and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Kentucky, passed away last night at his home in Lexington, Kentucky. He was 80. Born near …
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Devout Without Beliefs: Translating South Asian Political Cultures in RSD
In recent years, asylum seekers from Bangladesh have comprised a significant portion of unauthorised maritime arrivals (that is, people arriving by boat without visas) in Australia. Their claims for protection have encountered significant resistance from …
Continue readingGuest Post: Saving the Date: January 26th and the Constituent Assembly
(This is a guest post by Vineeth Krishna, the Associate Editor of the Constitutional and Civic Citizenship Project at the Centre for Law and Policy Research (CLPR), Bangalore. Mathew Idiculla, also with CLPR, contributed to …
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