Musings on India, the law, and policy
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 Human Rights, Legal Theory on May 22nd, 2010
The Guardian reports: Across the world there are 76 countries in which people can be prosecuted because of their sexual orientation, according to the latest annual survey of the legal status of homosexuality by the International Gay and Lesbian Association. Half of those countries – 38 out of the continent’s 53 states – are in [...]
Posted in Court, Legal Theory on May 17th, 2010
Over at Lawrence Solum’s Legal Theory Blog I came across a very interesting post about the distinction between Interepretation, Construction, Vagueness and Ambiguity. This falls into the larger context of statutory interpretation. From the blog: A word, phrase, sentence, or clause is ambiguous if it has more than one sense: for example, the word “cool” [...]