All posts in Law & The Judiciary

Blowing the Whistle
August 2, 2011, 3 Comments

A guest post by Ritwika Sharma

Back With a Bang
July 7, 2011, 5 Comments

When one returns from a long break from work, one is tempted to take it easy, switch gears slowly, and settle into a rhy ...

Vacations
May 21, 2011, 5 Comments

(This is a supremely personal take on an issue most working adults in this country find hard to live with: Supreme Court ...

Overheard in the Supreme Court of India – I
April 29, 2011, 4 Comments

(After a long time, I am back to doing Supreme Court “fact”-ion. In the claustrophobic crowded courtrooms on ...

Caught the Cup but Dropped the Tax
April 11, 2011, 7 Comments

Why the tax exemption given to the ICC by India's tax authorities is absurd

Thinking Beyond Foreign University Branch Campuses: The Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operations) Bill, 2010
April 5, 2011, No Comments

[This post is co-authored with Vikramaditya S. Khanna] The Government of India has made higher education reform a critic ...

How to have an ignorant opinion about the Service Tax on legal services…
March 29, 2011, 2 Comments

So the service tax on individual lawyers is going to see the light of day, and barring a Stay on the provisions of the F ...

Obstacles to the enforcement of arbitral awards against States- an international perspective
March 16, 2011, No Comments

In a world where investment arbitration is flourishing, the difficulties in enforcing arbitral awards against States rem ...

Judicial Officers and Article 311 of the Constitution
March 10, 2011, 4 Comments

In light of contemporary debates over judicial accountability, the question recently considered by the Supreme Court in ...

An Offence against Cricket
February 24, 2011, 3 Comments

The Indian Penal Code, still in force and copied almost in toto in most ex-British colonies is a remarkably drafted docu ...