For those who followed this previous post, the Rajya Sabha has sent the Prevention of Torture Bill to a Select Committee for further examination (see Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s piece in the Indian Express today on …
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“In Orissa, there are tribes which are living on grass”
Manoj Mitta’s excellent article on how Supreme Court betrayed the Orissa tribals made me read in full Chief Justice Kapadia’s 2008 Justice J.K.Mathur Memorial Lecture. Readers may draw their own conclusions.
Continue readingBill Watch: Rajya Sabha is discussing Torture Bill
The Rajya Sabha is likely to take up the Torture Bill for consideration and passing sometime early next week. We have documented the various flaws in this Bill previously on this blog (see also, here …
Continue readingAccountability Initiative: Research Associate Vacancy
The Accountability Initiative, a research initiative that works to promote accountability for service delivery, is seeking to hire a Research Associate to work on the PAISA Project. PAISA – (Planning, Allocations and Expenditures, Institutions: Studies …
Continue readingAnalysing the Khairlanji verdict
Shekhar Hattangadi’s recent piece on the Bombay High Court’s judgment explains why justice has not been meted out to the Khairlanji victims, and how the judgment ignores “multiple motive” concept in criminology. It also points …
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Dissecting the Right to Information Act
Frontline’s recent issue is a celebration of the strengths of the Right to Information Act, and a critique of its flaws, as the activists see it. There are 10 components to the cover story, of …
Continue readingDelhi Law Review: Call for Articles
Please find below a call for papers being posted on behalf of the editors of the Delhi Law Review. I hope that the DLR, like other law school journals, puts its archives online soon.———————————————————————————— Delhi …
Continue readingProportionality as a Standard of Rights Review
In a recent issue of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I-CON), Tsakyrakis presented a powerful critique of the proportionality test. In the current issue of I-CON, I respond to Tsakyrakis, defending proportionality as a …
Continue readingBar Council Exam
The proposed examination by the Bar Council of India has been covered previously on this blog. In the current issue of the University of Pennsylvania’s India in Transition Series, I offer my thoughts on the …
Continue readingGuest Post: The Pre-Legislative Briefing Service (PLBS) – ‘Building India one Bill at a time’
We are very pleased to publish the following guest post from Arghya Sengupta, member of the Pre-Legislative Briefing Service. —————————————————————————–Prashant, Sanhita, Shivprasad and I started The Pre-Legislative Briefing Service (PLBS) with a view to proactively …
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