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The Role Of A Judge In An Electoral Autocracy, Aparna Chandra
The Role Of A Judge In An Electoral Autocracy, Aparna Chandra
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In a year where 64 countries are holding elections, courts around the world must engage with a range of questions around electoral integrity and dysfunction, i.e., with the judicialization of electoral processes. How should democratically inclined judges respond to attempts by incumbent autocrats at leveraging laws to hold on to power?
Sovereignty Before Law, Salmoli Choudhuri, Moiz Tundawala
Sovereignty Before Law, Salmoli Choudhuri, Moiz Tundawala
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Book review: Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age, by Shruti Kapila, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2021, 328 pp., $37.00/£30.00, ISBN 9780691195223
Same-Sex Marriage Judgment Asks Queer Citizens To Wait For True Equality At A Future Time That May Never Arrive, Kunal Ambasta
Same-Sex Marriage Judgment Asks Queer Citizens To Wait For True Equality At A Future Time That May Never Arrive, Kunal Ambasta
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"For about the last 15 years, the queer rights movement has enriched the constitutional law of this country. Some of the most cherished constitutional values and rights have been fleshed out with the movement as its springboards at the Supreme Court.... The Court fully acknowledges, in abstract, the rights of queer couples to equal treatment before the law, dignity, and of the numerous tangible and intangible benefits of the institution of marriage, but refuses to ensure any of these rights to a clear case of legal discrimination or to craft a suitable remedy."
Marriage Equality Judgment: The Missing Case Of International Covenants, Nanditta Batra, Naveen Batra
Marriage Equality Judgment: The Missing Case Of International Covenants, Nanditta Batra, Naveen Batra
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This article analyses the judgement on marriage equality delivered by a five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India on 17 October 2o23. The authors argue that, in holding that there is no fundamental right to marry under the Indian Constitution, the court has not taken into account binding international human rights treatises that categorically state the right to marry as a human right.
Grounding The Basic Structure In Legal Theory, Sanjay Jain
Grounding The Basic Structure In Legal Theory, Sanjay Jain
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This article contributes to the everlasting debate on theorising the Basic Structure doctrine of the Indian Constitution. Having demonstrated that it cannot be justified either in orthodox positivism of Austin or Kelsenite normativity, the author makes the case to ground the debate in the modern avatar of analytical jurisprudence, popularly known as inclusive legal positivism.
V.D. Mahajan's Constitutional Law Of India, Eighth Edition, Sanjay Jain
V.D. Mahajan's Constitutional Law Of India, Eighth Edition, Sanjay Jain
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Thoroughly revised by Dr. Sanjay Jain after 32 years, this edition of V.D. Mahajan's classic will aid students of Constitutional law in their quest to understand and study this magnificent document from a refreshing new perspective.