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Madhav Khosla

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Gadbois' New Book

Madhav Khosla
August 25, 2011 09:56

Oxford University Press recently published a book on the Judges of the Supreme Court of India by George Gadbois. The book has been covered on this blog previously. In a review article in the current issue of the Economic and Political Weekly (available here), Sudhir Krishnaswamy and I examine the...

Social Rights in India

Madhav Khosla
July 19, 2011 06:30

In the new issue of the International Journal of Constitutional Law, I study the social rights jurisprudence of the Indian Supreme Court. I make many arguments, and the piece is available here. The abstract is as follows:"Recent years have witnessed important advancements in the discussion on...

Salwa Judum and the Supreme Court

Madhav Khosla
July 13, 2011 05:46

In two excellent posts (here and here), Rohit and Tarunabh have brought to light interesting aspects of the decision in Nandini Sundar. In today's Hindu newspaper, I offer my thoughts on the order (here). In particular, I argue that we need to engage more deeply with the legal significance of the...

Justice Verma and the Appointment of Justice Punchhi

Madhav Khosla
June 29, 2011 14:50

A recent interview of Justice J.S.Verma's on CNN-IBN, with Karan Thapar, seems to suggest that, as the Chief Justice of India, he was against Justice Punchhi's elevation to the Supreme Court, and even wrote a letter recommending an inquiry into the charges against Justice Punchhi. But former Prime...

Veterans and Ethnic Cleansing in the Partition of India

Madhav Khosla
May 25, 2011 06:36

Steven Wilkinson, the Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies at Yale University, and one of the world's leading political scientists working on India, will be presenting a paper at the Centre for Policy Research on 'Veterans and Ethnic Cleansing in the Partition of India' (by Saumitra...