IDAP Interview Series: Interview VIII With Senior Advocate SK Rungta27 March 2017 11:26 AM GMTWe began this interview series with the principal objective of curating insights from lawyers with disabilities who can serve as ‘waypavers’ and ‘pathmarkers’ for law students and young lawyers with...
“Shashi Tharoor’s Equality Bill Is A Way Of Realising Ambedkar’s Vision Of A Discrimination-Free India”, Says Oxford Academic, Tarunabh Khaitan18 March 2017 2:05 PM GMTTarunabh Khaitan is an Associate Professor in Law at the University of Oxford. He is the author of A Theory of Discrimination Law (OUP 2015), which has been well received in academic circles. He is...
The Supreme Court’s dismissal of Dangwimsai Pul’s “petition” seeking a probe into the allegations mentioned in her husband, and former chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh, Kalikho Pul’s “suicide...
P.D.T. Achary was the Secretary General of the Lok Sabha, from 2005 to 2010 and is an eminent expert on Parliamentary procedures and practices. He helped the Speaker of the 14th Lok Sabha, Somnath...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In her book, ‘The Burning Forest: India’s War in Bastar’, published recently, Nandini Sundar attributed the 2011 Supreme Court’s judgment in Nandini Sundar vs State of Chhattisgarh, going in her...
