"Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a sense of shame. Lead them with excellence and put them in their place through roles and ritual practices, and in addition to developing a sense of shame, they will order… Continue reading MERSMERIZING QUOTES
Category: Volume XIX
PUBLIC LAW IN THE NEWS
Supreme Court in the news Furlough is not a legal right [State of Gujarat v. Narayana, 2021 SCC OnLine SC 949] The Supreme Court highlighted an important difference between parole and furlough in this case and held that while furlough is granted after a significant time is spent in jail and does not mandate having… Continue reading PUBLIC LAW IN THE NEWS
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN PANDEMONIUM
Rashmi Raghavan ( Batch of 2021 ) A rudimentary understanding of the State as comprising solely of its Legislature, Executive and Judicial arms does disservice to the significant tasks undertaken by the administration. The insufficiency of time as well as technical expertise on subject matters ranging from tax compliances to understanding ecological management or heritage… Continue reading PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN PANDEMONIUM
NRC Tribunal at the cost of human life
Vishakha Patil and Samraggi Debroy ( IV B.A.L.L.B. ) The final updated list of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) for Assam was published on 31st August 2019, and a whopping nineteen lakh residents of Assam were left out of the list. Most of them did not receive rejection notices that explain the grounds of… Continue reading NRC Tribunal at the cost of human life
The Lokpal
Aarzoo Guglani (IV B.A.L.L.B.) Introduction “Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today”, this quote by Mahatma Gandhi quite aptly describes the distasteful result of decades of our revolts against corruption, The Lokpal. The massive 2011 public campaign was vociferously stirred to give rise to the Lokpal… Continue reading The Lokpal
KASTURILAL RALIA RAM JAIN v STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH – The Changing dynamics of ‘State Liability’ and ‘Sovereign Immunity’
Stuti Dhawan (III B.A.LL.B) INTRODUCTION Society is dynamic and therefore the societal structure, social institutions (formal & informal), and societal processes change with time. Changes are accompanied by challenges and being a developing nation there is always a need to review the laws and modify them with futuristic objectives.[1] And in doing so the ‘State’… Continue reading KASTURILAL RALIA RAM JAIN v STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH – The Changing dynamics of ‘State Liability’ and ‘Sovereign Immunity’
Covid-19, Courts & Indian Education System
Dewangi Sharma (IV B.A. LLB) and Nihar Chitre (Batch of 2021) Introduction The central government's declaration of victory over the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and the chest-thumping over the largest vaccination drive in the world, blinded the “the system” as the second tsunami of the Covid-19 grappled us. The soul-stirring, heart-wrenching images of… Continue reading Covid-19, Courts & Indian Education System
Excessive Delegation: A silent crisis?
Soham Bhalerao (VI BA LLB) If the last couple of years have to be summed up in a word, the word “catastrophe” would be an understatement. From the vast amount of deaths worldwide to the sheer damage caused mentally, economically, COVID-19 was unprecedented in terms of impact. With the monumental challenge of dealing with the… Continue reading Excessive Delegation: A silent crisis?
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