Commentators have often noted that the High Courts, District Courts, and other subordinate courts are rarely systematically studied in India. In such a large country, it’s difficult to easily make many statements about what is …
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Socio Legal Review : Call for Papers
About the Journal The Socio-Legal Review (SLR) is a student-edited, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal published annually by the Law and Society Committee, National Law School of India University, Bangalore. The Journal aims to be a forum …
Continue readingBook Reviews: Courts & Governance
My review (rather comparison) of Madhav Godbole’s new book, Judiciary & Governance in India with Searching for Success in Judicial Reform, an edited volume brought out by Asia Pacific Judicial Reform Forum. While Godbole’s book …
Continue readingThe non-appointment of Justice Dinakaran
It is now official that the SC collegium will delink Justice Dinakaran from the other four Judges whom it recommended for appointment to the Supreme Court. I was amazed to read this story in TOI …
Continue readingThe recusal controversy & the facts
I invite readers’ attention to Rajeev Dhavan’s article in Mail Today on when and why Judges should recuse themselves from hearing a matter. The news peg for the article is certainly Supreme Court Justice S.H.Kapadia’s …
Continue readingLegal History Moment: The Case of the Diligent Diplomat
C.B Muthamma passed away today. She was the first woman to have joined the Indian civil service in 1949. She became a part of Indian legal history when she challenged the Foreign Service Rules which …
Continue readingMashelkar Report Version II: Wrong Again
Sudhir Krishnaswamy has authored an engaging article on the second Mashelkar Report tilted “Mashelkar Report Version II: Wrong Again”. The article is forthcoming in the Economic and Political Weekly and can be downloaded here. The …
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Naz Foundation and the “Order of Nature”: Nurturing Vagueness in the Law?
Vikram undertook a thorough and incisive review of the Delhi High Court decision in the Naz Foundation case in three remarkable posts on …
Continue readingOnline Symposium Starting Tomorrow on Judicial Review of Anti-Terrorism Legislation
The Indian Journal of Constitutional Law will have an online symposium tomorrow October 11th. Prof. Kent Roach’s “Judicial Review of Anti-Terrorism Legislation: The Post-9/11 Experience and Normative Experiences for Judicial Review” is the centerpiece to …
Continue readingDoes the state have a monopoly on violence?
The targeted kidnapping and beheading of a Jharkhand police inspector, almost certainly by Naxalites, is seen as taking the conflict to a new level. Chhattisgarh-based doctor Binayak Sen (whose judicial travails this blog closely followed …
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