Kartik Garg Judicial checks are insufficient in ensuring fairness as they are conveniently ignored by the executive. The article argues for the need to have additional legislative and executive checks to safeguard […]
The Law School Workshop Series – organized by the Jurisprudence and Political Philosophy Discussion Group, NLSIU in association with Kautilya Society (NLSIU-chapter) – will be hosting workshops to develop working papers in […]
Professor Samuel Moyn is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School, U.S. and a Professor of History at Yale University, U.S. He has done extensive work on constitutional […]
Ankit Gupta In absence of any checks and balances, the plea of ‘oral partition’ has been abused by dishonest litigants to prolong frivolous and vexatious civil suits, thereby, reducing it to a […]
Sandli Pawar This article examines the applicability of Dworkin’s ‘moral reading’ of a right to the ‘right to legal representation’ to accommodate numerous unenumerated rights therein; it also argues that Article 22(3) […]
Ashwin Vardarajan Introduction On the 12th of January, 2021, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court (‘SC’) ordered a stay on the application of the three Farm laws, namely the Farmer’s Produce […]
Prof. Tiju Thomas Permitting a registered ‘deed of familial association (DFA)’, drawing from ‘Indian Contract Law’ and ‘right to life’ would aid legitimization of LGBT+ families. Despite progress in Indian queer rights […]
Mansi Gupta This piece examines the procedural lapses, judicial shortcomings and executive interference vis-á-vis the Foreigners Tribunal established under the Foreigners Tribunal Act, 1946 to demonstrate how the onerous burdens of proof, […]
Prof. Kent Roach One of my current research interests is the comparative study of wrongful convictions. Almost two decades ago, when I first taught in Singapore, my students assured me that there […]
Sarthak Wadhwa This piece analyses how the High Court of Orissa departed from the heteronormative marriage-centric jurisprudence of ‘live-in relationships’ to allow a trans-man and a cis-woman to cohabit, and how it […]
