Two recent decisions, one from the Andhra Pradesh High Court and the other from the Supreme Court, might well radically alter the dynamic between the courts and the State in the context of...
1. This op-ed by Vikram which appeared in yesterday’s edition of the Hindu offers some historical perspectives on the institution of the President of India, as we head into elections for that...
The European Court of Human Rights in Scoppola v. Italy (22 May 2012) has diluted the right to vote for prisoners that it upheld in Hirst v. The United Kingdom in October 2005. In this...
The Indian Journal of Law and Technology at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore (NLSIU), in association with the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore is organising the 3rd...
The Indian Journal of Constitutional Law is an endeavour of the Constitutional Law Society at NALSAR, Hyderabad and the MK Nambyar SAARC Law Chair in Comparative Constitutional Studies. The Journal...
A while ago, I had written a post about a lecture on social justice that Pratap B Mehta was then to deliver at the University of Pennsylvania. Several arguments delivered in the...
The Centre for Policy Research is conducting a two-week Summer Workshop on Strategic Studies, that aims to bring together a group of twenty advanced graduate students, young analysts and junior...
One of the defining features of the Indian Supreme Court is its panel structure. At present it has 27 judges that on a typical day may sit in benches of two or three judges in one of over a...
Justice Dalveer Bhandari’s election as Judge of the International Court of Justice has thrown up problematic questions of propriety and legality. Raag Yadava’s earlier post highlighted...
‘A Brahmin Prime Minister whipping a Dalit leader and blaming him for the delay in creating the Constitution’ — that spin on Shankar’s cartoon is too dangerous for any...