The Centre for Health Law, Ethics and Technology, headed by Dipika Jain, at Jindal Global Law School has a new report out on the Impact of the Naz Foundation Judgment. Through a set of interviews …
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Dignity as an Expressive Norm: Neither Vacuous nor a Panacea
In this article published in the recent volume of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (unformatted SSRN version available here), I have discussed the role of the concept of dignity in human rights law. This …
Continue readingHarvard Law School Global Legal Education Forum Doctoral Workshop: Call for Applications
In celebration of the 100th year of the S.J.D. Programme at Harvard, the Harvard Law School S.J.D. Association is organising the Global Legal Education Forum where professors and S.J.D. alumni from all over the world …
Continue readingGuest Post by Shraddha Chigateri on “Now you see it, now you don’t…’ Hindu sentiment and the legal discourse on cow slaughter”
Anup Surendranath’s recent post on the Madhya Pradesh anti-cow slaughter law is an interesting and timely intervention on the nature of the broader legal discourse on cow slaughter. It provides us with tiny glimmers of …
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A leading group of intellectuals, analysts, and policy makers – Sunil Khilnani, Rajiv Kumar, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Prakash Menon, Nandan Nilekani, Srinath Raghavan, Shyam Saran, Siddharth Varadarajan – have released “NonAlignment 2.0: …
Continue reading“Do Not Disagree”
I saw this well written piece by Pratap Bhanu Mehta in today’s Indian Express on the Prime Minister’s allegations surrounding foreign funding of NGOs agitating around Bt cotton and nuclear power. As a foreigner (and …
Continue readingHarvard Law School Global Legal Education Forum
I wanted to bring to your attention this exciting conference at Harvard Law School later this month! Global Legal Education Forum Harvard Law School March 23-25, 2012 Conference Organizers: Harvard Law School S.J.D. Students Association …
Continue readingArticle 19(1)(c) Amended
The text of the 97th amendment to the Indian constitution, which makes the right to form cooperative societies a fundamental right under Article 19(1)(c) [now, the right to form “associations or unions or cooperative societies” …
Continue readingThe Seniority Norm
Once appointed to the court, Supreme Court judges in India enjoy security of tenure. They cannot be removed except by a strenuously difficult impeachment process, their tenures cannot be shortened or renewed, and their salaries …
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The order dated February 21, 2012 issued by a Division Bench of the Madras High Court, in the case of A.K. Balaji v. Government of India, spells out what foreign law firms can and cannot …
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