I am very pleased to welcome George H. Gadbois, Jr. to Law and Other Things. Professor Gadbois has been a distinguished scholar of Indian law and judicial behaviour for several decades. He obtained...
Oxford University Press recently published a book on the Judges of the Supreme Court of India by George Gadbois. The book has been covered on this blog previously. In a review article in the current...
In a book published this month by the Eastern Book Company, entitled “Due Process of Law”, I analyze the doctrine of substantive due process, in particular its evolution in American constitutional...
In the latest episode of Barkha Dutt’s ‘We the People’, I argue that the Anna Hazare movement is driven by the urban middle-class, and this is reflected in the peculiarities of the...
The country is in the midst of a huge suspense, with Team Anna hardening its demands to end Anna Hazare’s fast. When he was released (or rather released himself) from Tihar Jail, the Team Anna...
As the ‘movement’ around Anna Hazare gathers steam, I wrote this op-ed in yesterday’s The Indian Express. It takes further some ideas I was exploring here .
Readers may be interested in accessing Delhi University’s archive of digitised books whose copyright has expired. The archive has some useful legal material.
Rajya Sabha has just begun the process of removal of Justice Soumitra Sen with Sitaram Yechury speaking on the motion. The debate can be watched live from here. The Report of the Inquiry...
Our Independence Day also marks the 150th anniversary of the Madras High Court. The Hindu published an excellent opinion editorial on the subject by Justice Chandru who is a sitting judge. He calls...
When Ram Jethmalani exposed for the first time how the Central Government used the instrument of ratification to cover up corruption (on August 6 at CJAR convention in New Delhi -see Events page), it...