By Arushi Garg The Centre for Legal Philosophy and Justice Education at the NALSAR University of Law, conducted a discussion on the operationalisation of Emergency powers in India on 20th July, 2011. This discussion was …
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Corruption: NCPRI’s alternative basket of measures
The NCPRI has now made public its alternative proposals outlining the measures needed to tackle corruption. Further details are available here, here and here. There are many substantive differences between these proposals and the Jan …
Continue reading32 Years Later Not Much Has Changed
Today’s front page of the Times of India carries a story about a 19 year-old who has been in jail in New Delhi for the past year on the charge that he stole 200 Rs …
Continue readingAnna Hazare & the middle classes
The Lokpal Bill has been carefully dissected on these pages. I use another scalpel, in this essay in the latest Economic & Political Weekly on what the Anna Hazare movement and India’s middle classes say …
Continue readingNandini Sundar on the Salwa Judum Order
The Salwa Judum order by the Supreme Court has attracted much comment from members of this blog (see Rohit, Madhav and my reactions). Nandini Sundar, one of the petitioners in the case, has defended the …
Continue readingCall for Papers – Socio-Legal Law Review
Socio-Legal Review Call for Submissions Socio-Legal Review welcomes contributions for its eighth volume to be released in 2012. About the Journal The Socio-Legal Review (SLR) is a student-edited, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal published annually by the …
Continue readingSocial Rights in India
In the new issue of the International Journal of Constitutional Law, I study the social rights jurisprudence of the Indian Supreme Court. I make many arguments, and the piece is available here. The abstract is …
Continue readingSupremacy of Parliament
In a provocative piece, C.V.Madhukar asks whether the Indian Parliament is really supreme as a counter to those who question Anna Hazare’s politics. To substantiate his claim that Parliamentarians are responsible for not treating Parliament …
Continue readingNAC’s style of drafting Bills
The National Advisory Council (NAC) has in its agenda, among other things, giving legislative inputs to the Government. This it does, by preparing draft Bills on important issues. But little is known about how it …
Continue readingSalwa Judum and the Supreme Court
In two excellent posts (here and here), Rohit and Tarunabh have brought to light interesting aspects of the decision in Nandini Sundar. In today’s Hindu newspaper, I offer my thoughts on the order (here). In …
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