IJCL Online Symposium : Judicial Review of Anti-Terror Legislation

The Indian Journal of Constitutional Law, Volume 3 Online Symposium

The Board of Editors of the Indian Journal of Constitutional Law proudly announces the release of the 3^rd Edition of the Journal on October 3^rd this year.  In collaboration with the Constitutional Law Society, NALSAR University of Law, we are now delighted to organize the First Online Symposium to mark this release.

‘Judicial Review of Anti Terrorism Legislation: The Post 9/11 Experience and Normative Experiences for Judicial Review’ by Prof. Kent Roach will form the subject piece of this Online Symposium.  In this article, Prof.Roach examines the inter-play between deference to the decisions of the Executive and Legislature and existing norms of Judicial Review in a context that has arisen of the post 9/11 era of Anti-Terrorism efforts.  In doing so, he proposes that while Judicial Review of Anti-Terrorism measures can be justified by the need to protect the rights of unpopular minorities and the nature of proportionality review, the surge of such efforts owing to an increased need of security demands a certain amount of creativity in reviewing such efforts which ought to inevitably be influenced by deference to the decision making capacity of the other two organs of the State.  This piece is set against a background depicting the set contemporary scenario in Anti-terrorism measures in the three major regions of India, the United States and Europe.

Prof. Christina Eckes from the Amsterdam Centre European Law and Public Policy, University of Amsterdam and Dr.Shylashri Shankar from the Centre for Policy research, India will be the Primary Respondents to Prof.Roach’s article and will challenge the propositions put forth by him as well as the normative justifications backing them.  Ms.Aparna Chandra will be an additional Respondent to the thread.

The Online Symposium will be published on the Constitutional Law Society’s online discussion platform at the ‘CLS Forum’ on October 11, 2009.  We would like to invite you to be a part of this discussion over the week.   Please visit our website www.ijcl.net for more details on the Online Symposium and for access to the 3rd Volume of the Journal.

Thank you

The Board of Editors The Indian Journal of Constitutional Law

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