Musings on India, the law, and policy
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 30th, 2010
Shambo Nandy, part of a group of students and faculty from NUJS that has preferred a complaint against the purportedly flawed Law School rankings in India Today and Outlook to the Press Council of India, explains the reasons for the same. At NUJS, we had hoped that the 2010 rankings in different magazines would give [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 29th, 2010
I’d invite our readers to read Sainath’s editorial in The Hindu about food security and as to how the Maharashtra Government ended famine in its state; i.e. by refusing to recognise the term in law. Excerpt below; In 1963, the government of Maharashtra ended famine forever in the State. It did this without adding a [...]
Posted in Legal Theory on Aug 26th, 2010
The other day as I sat watching the Motley theatre group perform Antigone on stage, I was constantly reminded of the law school staple of the Hart-Fuller debate. The tussle between positive law and natural law has been around since long and will continue to be so. Thus, as Antigone defied the law of Thebes [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 24th, 2010
The furore over the recent changes to the Nuclear Liability Bill is well founded. Its ironical that after all the ruckus that was created by the Centre over liability in the Bhopal Gas leak disaster, the Centre now has introduced changes in the Bill to further dilute the liability of suppliers in case of nuclear [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 20th, 2010
We’ve a new page dedicated exclusively to announcements and call-for-papers from law journals across India and elsewhere. Editorial board members are requested to send a condensed version of their CFPs to put them up in the new page. Announcements are displayed in reverse chronological order of release. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via [...]
Posted in Court, Politics, Uncategorized on Aug 10th, 2010
The treatment meted out to two new transferred Chief Justices of High Courts is a study in contrasts. On the one hand is Justice J. H. Khehar, who is taking over the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court on a transfer from Uttarakhand. And on the other is Justice P. D. Dhinakaran, on a [...]