Category Archives: Featured

Hop, Skip and Jump – With Us

By Arun | Published: June 29, 2010
SATL began with a view to promote a language of interdisciplinary debate that is hardly spoken in lawschools today. After initiative, came interaction. When people inform us that the blog is a good step forward to achieve this goal, we couldn’t be happier.  It was not our idea to put up a poll, not our [...]
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Stories from Sudan

By Arun | Published: June 12, 2010
Beginning next week, visitors to SATL will get to know more about one of the world’s most trouble-stricken and impoverished regions – Sudan. Follow Sophia Dawkins, currently a student (MALD) at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, as she shares her experience  ‘from the field’. Currently interning with an international NGO, Sophia is based [...]
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The Supreme Court: India’s Dark Knight

By Arun | Published: June 5, 2010
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

By Arun | Published: May 29, 2010
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

By Arun | Published: May 21, 2010
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 – [...]
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What went wrong in India’s approach towards Iran?

By Arun | Published: May 17, 2010
On Monday, the world woke up to news of Iran’s readiness to transfer its low-enriched uranium to Turkey. That the move will complicate US-led efforts to impose sanctions on Iran is certain, but what is more interesting is that the negotiations to effect this transfer were spearheaded by Brazil and Turkey. Concluding marathon 18-hour deliberations, [...]
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