Gay Marriage Legal in All 50 US States, Thanks to Supreme Court Ruling
File photo of same-sex marriage in San Francisco City Hall, 2008. Photo: Marc Love. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons In a landmark decision, the nine justices of the US Supreme Court...
View ArticleWhat Judicial Responsibility Must Mean in the Age of the Death Penalty
Courts should realise that as long as there is life, there is room for reform, and that justice without delay provides better closure to victims than execution after decades Cellular Jail gallows....
View ArticleWhy More Money Does Not Mean More Democracy
Suggestions to allow candidates to spend more money in elections are based on a misreading of how parties function on the ground DMK treasurer MK Stalin campaigning in Tirupur. Credit: PTI In a recent...
View ArticleOne Way to Fix the Collegium is to Televise its Proceedings
That will ensure there is public transparency both about what the collegium is looking for in a judge and what the judge herself or himself has to offer One rule for judges, one for everyone else. But...
View ArticleWe Need Clean Air But Spare Us the Judicial Overreach
The Supreme Court’s specific directions not only violate the delicate balance of power enshrined in the Constitution but are also problematic because the judiciary has neither the expertise nor the...
View ArticleSedition and the Status of Subversive Speech in India
It is clear that freedom of speech and expression within the Indian legal tradition includes within its ambit any form of criticism, dissent and protest. It cannot be held hostage to narrow ideas of...
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