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Burgeoning Delhi Rapes: Some Reflections
May 10, 2013, No Comments

[Guest Post by Latika Vashist and Amit Bindal]  I.                 The reason for writing this piece is ...

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 ...

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 ...

An Interesting Question of Judicial Precedent
February 2, 2011, 7 Comments

The post discusses a fascinating question of judicial precedent, dealing with the approach to determining the ratio of c ...

How India missed getting its first woman Chief Justice India
November 26, 2010, 8 Comments

Four women have been elevated to the post of the Judge of the Supreme Court of India in 60 years of the Court’s ex ...

A Re-examination of the Basic Structure Doctrine
October 6, 2010, 4 Comments

One of the most fundamental and equally ambiguous concepts that underlies Indian Constitutional Law is the basic structu ...

Gandhi and International Human Rights
October 1, 2010, 6 Comments

Even in the 1940s, when the world was obsessed with the emerging ‘rights-discourse’, Gandhi’s contribution is uniq ...

Mining Right(s)
August 24, 2010, No Comments

This new revamping suffers from the same problem that has characterised a lot of recent legislative activity in India †...

Miscellaneous Day Part I
August 18, 2010, 3 Comments

(This piece of “fact”-ion is based on an average miscellaneous day for an average junior. Any resemblance to ...