Statelessness May Lead To Many Other Grave Violations Of Human Rights: Interview With Prof. Sanoj Rajan, Governing Board Member, Statelessness Network Asia Pacific (SNAP)

Prof. Sanoj Rajan is a professor of law specialising in International Law and Human Rights. Presently he is the Dean of School of Law, Ansal University, Gurgaon and an Affiliate Expert with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University, Massachusetts, US. Along with his academic experience, he has extensive involvement in International Human Rights practice, including statelessness issues. Recently he has been instrumental in establishing an international coalition of Human Rights...

I Favour Uniform Civil Code In A Piecemeal manner: Interview With NALSAR VC Prof. Faizan Mustafa

Prof. Faizan Mustafa is a renowned law teacher who is presently working as the Vice- Chancellor of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad which is India’s leading National Law University.He was the Founder Vice-Chancellor of National Law University, Orissa where he had put to use the concept of ‘integration of knowledge’ and introduced highly innovative legal education curricula. He is the Advisor to National Law School & Judicial Academy, Assam. He is known for his institution building...

‘Victim Justice Is An Aspiration Of A Progressing Society’: Interview With Professor G.S.BAJPAI

PROFESSOR G.S.Bajpai serves as Professor & Registrar at National Law University, Delhi. He has authored eight books, of which, the latest, “Victim Justice: A Paradigm Shift in Criminal Justice System in India”, [Thomson Reuters, 2016, Pages 205, Rs.695] has been well-received by academics and practitioners of law.The book, co-authored by Shriya Gauba carries Forewords in the form of messages by Justice A.K. Sikri of the Supreme Court, Chief Justice G.Rohini and Justice Gita Mittal of the...

Interview: Scholar And Author Chintan Chandrachud Says Considerable Political Traction Is Necessary To Overturn A Judgment

Chintan Chandrachud is an associate at the London office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart and Sullivan LLP. He holds a PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge, master’s degrees from Oxford and Yale, and a law degree from the Government Law College, Mumbai.His research has been published in prominent newspapers, journals and books, including The Hindu, Public Law, and The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution. He has undertaken several pro bono litigation projects and was chairperson of the...

Interview: How Courts Use Stereotypes And Myths In Sentencing, Explains Academic & Author, Mrinal Satish

Prof Mrinal Satish is Associate Professor of Law, and Executive Director, Centre for Constitutional Law, Policy, and Governance at the National Law University, Delhi.He is a graduate of Yale Law School and the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. He holds masters and doctoral degrees in law from Yale Law School. His doctoral dissertation examined sentencing policy and practice with a special focus on rape sentencing in India.He was part of the research team that assisted the...

‘The Legal Burden Of Running Demonetisation Should Vest With Parliament, Not RBI’, Says Namita Wahi, Academic & Legal Expert On Right To Property

Dr. Namita Wahi is a Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, where she heads the Land Rights Initiative. Namita’s research interests are broadly in the areas of property rights, social and economic rights, and eminent domain or expropriation law. She has written extensively on these issues in various academic journals and edited volumes, as well as newspapers and magazines. Namita has taught courses in these areas at Harvard University, both at the Law School and the Department of Government,...

Decriminalising S.377 Will Not End Homophobia & Transphobia: Interview With Oishik Sircar & Dipika Jain

The Indian Supreme Court referred the curative petitions to reopen its 2013 decision in Suresh Kumar Kaushal v Naz Foundation to a five-Judge Constitution Bench in February this year. With the current chief justice retiring in January next year, and the next chief justice also having a very limited tenure of seven months, there is considerable uncertainty, and anxiety about when the Constitution Bench would be set up, and whether it could answer the principal plea of the petitioners to recognise...

‘Disaster Prevention And Speedy Justice Are Never Election Issues’, Say Neelam And Shekhar, Authors Of ‘Trial By Fire’

The 1997 Uphaar fire tragedy in New Delhi killing 59 patrons of a cinema-hall, was a man-made disaster, from which India has hardly learnt any lessons, either in preventing similar tragedies, or in ensuring appropriate punishment to those found guilty of causing them.Neelam and Shekhar Krishnamoorthy of Association of Victims of Uphaar Tragedy (AVUT) have, in their recent book, ‘Trial By Fire’ [Penguin Random House], lucidly brought out their challenges in pursuing the legal struggle to ensure...

Demonetisation Has Brought The Legal Culpability Of The RBI Under Scrutiny, Says Chirashree Das Gupta, Academic & Author

The ongoing debate on Demonetisation has brought to the fore the interface between political economy and issues of legal significance, which is discernible only to a trained observer. Chirashree Das Gupta is a scholar and Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University,who has exhibited a profound interest in the political economy of institutions, and the legal instruments available to a State to keep its control over them. Her recent book is...

“Law Is Not The Monopoly Of Legal Experts Alone”, Say Pratiksha Baxi And Siddharth Narrain, Organisers Of 4th International Lassnet Conference In New Delhi

The inaugural Law and Social Sciences Research Network (LASSnet) Conference was held at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi in 2009. A subsequent conference was held at the Foundation for Liberal and Management Education (FLAME) in Pune in 2010. In 2012, the third LASSNet conference was a collaboration between the Law and Society Trust, Colombo and the Department of Law, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. These conferences identified a number of priorities for the research, study...

Demystifying Indian President’s Powers: Interview With Debtoru Chatterjee, Author Of The Recent Book On Presidential Discretion

DEBTORU CHATTERJEE is a senior civil servant working with the Government of India. Rarely, civil servants find the time and the inclination to research and write on contemporary issues, let alone those which are extremely controversial. Therefore, when Chatterjee decided to research the subject of discretion of the President under the Indian Constitution, and write a book on it, both the academic world and a newspaper reader seeking insights beyond the headlines, stood to benefit from it. The...

The Bhopal Disaster Criminal Case Against The Accused Is At A Glacial Pace, Laments Activist N.D. Jayaprakash

The anniversary of Bhopal gas disaster every year is an occasion to look back, and review what India has learnt so far and can learn even now, from the tragedy. This year is no different, with the passage of 32 years since the disaster. Many observers have described the legal struggle of the survivors as another catastrophe – whether it be the impunity of the Union Carbide Corporation, which owned the pesticide factory in Bhopal whose leak caused the disaster, and its inheritor, Dow Chemicals,...