How to Make Legal Education in India ‘Meaningful’?2018-09-01T11:26:34+05:30A cluster of universities established by respective state/provincial legislatures in India prefer adding the prefix ‘national’, ultimately making them national law universities also popularly known...
Increase in Retirement Age of Judges Isn’t Solution to Pressing Problems of Judicial Backlogs and Vacancies2018-07-03T12:58:38+05:30Recently, BJP leader and advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay addressed a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting an increment in the retirement age of judges in India to 70 years.A major...
Ascribing criminal nature to any matrimonial offence has always remained a contentious issue. With the Supreme Court giving a landmark judgment declaring the practice of triple talaq as...
The entire regime of intellectual property law (IPR), across the world, has been designed to promote a culture of research and innovation. Trademark law finds its place in this regime as the...
While civil liberties lawyers and organizations rightly fight the legal battle in the Supreme Court to stay the deportation of Rohingya Muslims (refugees) from India as per the directive of the...
I am quite aware that the writing of memoirs and recollections is a tradition reserved only for the choices of gentlemen who, through their seminal contributions have left an indelible mark in the...
Alternative Dispute Resolution or ADR includes processes that are out of court proceedings, wherein the parties decide the course of dispute resolution once a conflict occurs. The burden of the...
The Madras High Court recently made it to the headlines when by one of its orders it directed compulsory singing of Vande Matram (the National Song) in all schools and educational institutions once a...
Presently, the laws governing the admiralty jurisdiction of courts and related aspects of maritime law in India are too obsolete. The jurisdiction of the High Courts to entertain maritime disputes...
“Darshanatsparshanatpanattaha gangati keertanat punatyapunya purushana shatashotha”The holy sight of Ganga river gives knowledge, splendour, name, fame etc. The gravest of sins like Bramhatya...
Surviving law school is one hell of an experience for any student, but getting admission into a ‘reputed law school’ is a whole other shebang.Whether you choose a five-year course or three-year...
In cases where the expression of the court’s opinion is coloured with moral overtones, the credibility of the court can lead to more harm than good.Be it Rajasthan High Court’s judgment on...
The debate on the rarest of rare doctrine and its applicability ensued the moment the verdict was pronounced in the unnerving case of Mukesh & Anr vs State of NCT for Delhi ( Nirbhaya case). The...
Yamuna Menon, a 2nd year IDIA scholar at NLSIU, Bangalore, won the first National Constitutional Law Olympiad amongst great odds! She takes us through her exciting journey through this blog post,...
A long-lasting and probably never-ending debate about the legitimacy of the “capital punishment” has pervaded through the history of independent India, and continues to persist even today, not just...
The idea of independent directors is quite exciting. As per provision under Companies Act, 2013 Independent directors are required to acts as conscience-keepers of the boards,vigilant watchdogs,...
The Common Law Admission Test- 2016 was conducted by RGNUL, Patiala on 8th of May from 3 PM- 5 PM. As per the students CLAT 2016 was quite easy, perhaps easiest of all the previous CLAT papers. RGNUL...
