Contents of Articles
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A REVOLUTION JACOBIN IN ITS DISDAIN FOR PRECEDENT
[January 15, 2008]
The Supreme Court Phalanx, an article by Prof Ronald Dworkin. Reprinted by special permission to the BBA from the New York Review of Books, this extraordinary and scathing article by Prof Ronald Dworkin argues that…[More]
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AN INDEPENDENT JUDICIARY: ARTICLE BY AG NOORANI
[December 13, 2004]
On March 6, 2003, the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, Justice B. Subhashan Reddy, delivered this threat in open court: “We will have to close down the courts. We will say the government…[More]
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ARTICLE SYNDICATION FROM MYLAW.NET
[August 19, 2011]
The Bar Association introduces a web-only tie-up with MyLaw.net, an initiative of Rainmaker. We plan to carry short synopses of articles of interest to our members and which are published on MyLaw, with click-through links…[More]
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ARTICLE: SUBSTITUTE ADVOCATES
[August 19, 2011]
What authority enables one advocate appear on behalf on another in proceedings before a court, where the former has not been specifically authorised to appear by the client? Juniors, associates, and ‘brother lawyers’ appear on…[More]
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ARTICLE: THE DARKEST HOUR
[August 19, 2011]
In one of the biggest paradoxes of modern India, (Retd.) Justice P.N. Bhagwati, a champion of human rights law and Public Interest Litigation, is also believed to have put the final nail in the coffin…[More]
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BOOKWORM
[September 1, 2011]
To many people at NLSIU, the library, a monstrous building, is a necessary evil and an unpopular place to visit. Geetha Hariharan explains on mylaw.net why the library is a beautiful place; a haven for…[More]
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BROADCASTING LAW
[June 28, 2004]
The Government’s monopoly on broadcast rights must go, argues Madhavi Divan in her article, The Telecast Struggle: A Sorry Spectacle in the June 14, 2004 issue of Supreme Court Cases. Divan takes the view that…[More]
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CLOSE READ: THE TYLER CLEMENTI VERDICT
[March 16, 2012]
by Amy Davidson | 16 March 2012 | The New Yorker How can one make emotional sense of the verdict in the trial of Dharun Ravi, whose roommate, Tyler Clementi, jumped off the George Washington Bridge? Ravi faced fifteen…[More]
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DECISION FATIGUE
[September 4, 2011]
John Tierney | NY Times | 17 August 2011 Three men doing time in Israeli prisons recently appeared before a parole board consisting of a judge, a criminologist and a social worker. The three prisoners…[More]
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EXTREME MAKEOVER
[March 12, 2012]
The story behind the story of Lawrence v. Texas by Dahlia Lithwick | 12 March 2012 | The New Yorker In 2003, the United States Supreme Court decided the case of Lawrence v. Texas, ruling, by a six-to-three margin…[More]
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HOLDING COURT
[March 21, 2012]
by Jeffrey Toobin | New Yorker President Obama’s health-care reform, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Brett M. Kavanaugh is a judge who sits on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia…[More]
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JURY FINDS SPYING IN RUTGERS DORM WAS A HATE CRIME
[March 16, 2012]
by Kate Zernicke | 16 March 2012 | The New York Times Dharun Ravi at Superior Court in Middlesex County, N.J., as he listened to the verdict on Friday—Matt Rainey for The New York Times NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. —…[More]
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LAW AND LITERATURE
[September 1, 2011]
Several noted authors in history have been lawyers or law students. Kafka was a small time legal clerk. Shakespeare’s discussions on law and politics are very impressive. Men like Nehru, a consummate historian, or Gandhi…[More]
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MR JUSTICE: ON TOM BINGHAM
[March 15, 2012]
by Jesse Norman | March/April 2012 | More Intelligent Life Back in 1990 Sir Thomas Bingham had barely started to accumulate his dazzling array of gongs and titles, which would one day include Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief…[More]
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NEW YORK TIMES: MUMBAI TERROR ATTACKS PIL
[December 7, 2008]
An article, Mumbai Attacks Politicize Long-Isolated Elite, that appeared in the New York Times on Sunday, 7 December 2008 refers extensively to the PIL filed by the Society of Indian Lawyers and others. M/s Amarchand…[More]
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NO WAY TO CHOOSE A JUDGE
[March 15, 2012]
New York Times Editorial | 15 March 2012 In a serious setback for justice in Alabama, primary voters chose Roy Moore to be their candidate for chief justice of the State Supreme Court in November. He is…[More]
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NOT ENOUGH LAWYERS?
[September 3, 2011]
“OVERLAWYERED” is the name of a widely read blog on America’s legal system, and many Americans feel that way. Yet three economists think the country is actually plagued by too few lawyers, not too many…[More]
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THE ELEPHANT IN THE COURTROOM
[March 6, 2012]
by Jeffrey Toobin | 6 March 2012 | The New Yorker Last week, the Court heard arguments in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, a case of tremendous interest to both corporations and human-rights activists. (It involves claims by Nigerian…[More]
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THE SUPREME COURT PHALANX
[January 15, 2008]
By Ronald Dworkin 1. Anthony Kennedy by David LevineThe revolution that many commentators predicted when President Bush appointed two ultra-right-wing Supreme Court justices is proceeding with breathtaking impatience, and it is a revolution Jacobin in…[More]
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WHEN STEALING ISN’T STEALING
[March 28, 2012]
Stuart P Green | New York Times THE Justice Department is building its case against Megaupload, the hugely popular file-sharing site that was indicted earlier this year on multiple counts of copyright infringement and related…[More]
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WHY I AM LEAVING GOLDMAN SACHS
[March 14, 2012]
by Greg Smith | 14 March 2012 | New York Times Today is my last day at Goldman Sachs. After almost 12 years at the firm — first as a summer intern while at Stanford, then in New York…[More]
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