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The Supreme Court: India’s Dark Knight
So much for the notion that all of constitutional law lies there in the Constitution waiting for a judge to read it fairly […] That is why the simplistic view of the Constitution devalues our aspirations, and attacks that our confidence, and diminishes us. A week back, Justice David H. Souter, who stepped down from [...]
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Nepal’s Constitutional Crisis: Why India Should Be Worried
Members of Nepal’s Parliament have reached a consensus, ending an impasse that might have resulted in its dissolution. The ‘deal’, struck well past the midnight deadline of May 28, ensured that the country will not plunge into yet another political crisis that looked a certainty till yesterday. For now, the people of Nepal, the Governments [...]
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Law Clerks and the Indian Supreme Court
If Elena Kagan’s nomination to the US Supreme Court is confirmed by the Senate, the Court will comprise Justices who are all either from Harvard or Yale. Naturally, there has been intense debate on whether the Supreme Court is being fortified in an exclusionary philosophy that favours products of elite, expensive Ivy League education – [...]
Kasab, Afzal Guru and more musings on the death sentence
As the Delhi government reaffirmed its stance on Afzal Guru’s death penalty by returning his file to the Lieutenant Governor, lawyers and political commentators are once again faced with that old and difficult question: is the death penalty justified? This comes quickly in the wake of the Bombay trial court condemning 26/11-prime accused, Ajmal Kasab, [...]
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Problems with a ‘truly’ Constitutional Court
Somnath Chatterjee, Former Speaker of the Lok Sabha, propogated yesterday, in the Economic Times, the establishment of circuit benches with apex appellate jurisdiction, leaving the Supreme Court at the Centre to decide on “questions of constitutional importance”. From his article: I was asked whether it was necessary to curtail the SC’s jurisdiction to only very [...]
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