Pratap Bhanu Mehta will be delivering three lectures at Brown University next month. Each looks simply fascinating and those in the vicinity should most certainly attend. The first lecture is on the Genalogies of Equality …
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Lawyers’ Boycott of Accused: The Supreme Court Weighs In
Talha Rahman had written earlier on the issue of lawyers’ deciding to boycott certain kinds of “accused”. He now has an update to his earlier post as below. In A.S. Mohammad Rafi v. State of …
Continue readingCopyright, Parallel Imports and Access To Education
A piece titled the “The Death of Books” sparked off a fiery debate around a proposed amendment to the copyright act. Two of us (leading technology lawyer Rahul Mathan and me) initially countered this doomsday …
Continue readingThe CVC Judgment
In an article in the current issue of Frontline, I reflect upon the CVC judgment, and the Supreme Court more generally.
Continue readingGuest Post: National Identification Authority of India Bill
It is my pleasure to publish yet another guest post from the folks at the Pre-Legislative Briefing Service.————————————————————————–As our fourth project, at the Pre-Legislative Briefing Service (PLBS), after the Nuclear Liability Bill, The Prevention of …
Continue readingSC on India’s international obligations
The South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre has joined issue with the Supreme Court in this recent EPW article. The comment is regarding the Supreme Court’s anger at Teesta Setalvad forwarding letters written to the …
Continue readingLegal History Moment: Colonial Law and CIA Agents
Elizabeth Kolsky, whose pathbreaking book we reviewed here has written an opinion piece in the DAWN, highlighting how the Raymond Davis case follows a pattern established in colonial India where white men in South Asia …
Continue readingMisadventures of the Supreme Court in Aruna Shanbaug v. Union of India
I have co-authored this post with Mrinal Satish, JSD Candidate at Yale Law School. The Supreme Court’s decision this week in Aruna Shanbaug v. Union of India raises important questions about the meaning of life, …
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Potpourri
1.Shekhar Hattangadi’s comment in Afternoon Despatch and Courier on Supreme Court’s recent ‘What the hell is going on in this country’ remark. 2.My critical comment on the Gujarat High Court’s controversial judgment holding bhoomipuja a …
Continue readingUnleashing the Fourth Branch
In this piece in today’s Hindu I discuss the need for more legal infrastructure to tackle implementation failures in social welfare policy in India, building off the idea of the proposed district grievance redressal officers …
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