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Professor (Chair) of Public Law @LSELaw Formerly @OxfordLawFac Unofficial handle; trolls won't be fed. Publications:
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LSE is not only Dr Ambedkar's alma mater, but also where Prof Laski nurtured the generation of Indian students that would go on to serve the independent Republic. Nehru's cabinet apparently had an empty chair for Laski's ghost.
Couldn't be happier!
@LSELaw
is delighted to announce the appointment of Prof
@tarunkhaitan
as the next LSE Professor of Public Law. The Chair has an exceptional public law lineage including Profs Glanville Williams, Stanley de Smith, John Griffiths, Carol Harlow & its current holder Martin Loughlin.
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What South Africa is doing today--providing moral leadership to and amplifying the voice of the Global South--India used to do, once upon a time...
#Vishwaguru
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An early career scholar sent me her draft article I had supervised, listing me as a co-author!
The practice of mentors claiming co-authorship is predatory & against academic integrity.
"I-am-lending-my-prestige" is no excuse for claiming authorship of work that is not your own.
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The only institution that refused to roll over in the face of rising authoritarianism in India has been federalism. The regime knows this, and is chipping away at it, one opposition-ruled state at a time. With the Supreme Court playing its all-too-willing sidekick.
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Ran plagiarism checks on Turnitin against the official repository of existing laws :
83% of
#BharatiyaNyayaSanhita
, it seems, is lifted from Indian Penal Code. You can download turnitin report (with cut-pasted text in red) here:
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The Indian judge on the ICJ--Judge Bhandari--still adheres to the founding values of his country, even as his country has changed unrecognisably. He goes beyond the majority ruling to call for a ceasefire.
Declaration of Judge Bhandari:
"all participants in the conflict must ensure that all fighting and hostilities come to an immediate halt and that remaining hostages captured on 7 October 2023 are unconditionally released forthwith."
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Folk who are planning to sit out this election or vote for NOTA, because 'they're all bad':
Your inability to tell the moral difference b/w a speeding offence & cold-blooded murder may cost India its democracy.
So please go vote! Democracy matters more than your moral hygiene!
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I wish I had read a *lot* more during my undergraduate degree than I did. Reading lecture notes (often photocopied from a more diligent classmate) just before exams was usually all that was really expected of students ...
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Yesterday, I started my new role as Vice Dean
@OxfordLawFac
. Looking forward to working with Dean
@MindyWishart
& my fellow Vice Dean Helen Scott. We know it is a difficult time for the university sector, and hope we will be able to deliver:
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They baulked. No constitutional right to marriage in India, rules its top court! The government won the day. Gut-wrenching loss for the petitioners, the Court's platitudes to ameliorate the blow notwithstanding. Has the Court kept its powder dry for the upcoming Kashmir ruling?
Allowing the equal marriage petition would come at significant political cost for the Court. Given the govt’s unprecedented hostility, this is not a low hanging fruit (unlike decriminalisation of homosexuality in 2018). Will another big ruling to mollify govt with a win follow?
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If the opposition wins, what will it do to institutionally guarantee that systematic & gross abuse of police powers can never happen in India again (not even by a future BJP government)?
An answer to this question can no longer be postponed.
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The Indian Constitution continues to go places. After walking out of the courts, it has occupied village squares carved on stone tablets, been brandished and recited on the streets of cities, and now enshrined in a place of worship:
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The Opposition needs to take to the streets. Its leaders need to sit on hunger strikes, to create a spectacle godi media cannot ignore. Learn from the farmers. Court Petitions & press conferences have proven thoroughly inadequate. You need to take the fight to the people's court.
A systematic effort is underway by the Prime Minister to cripple the Indian National Congress financially. Funds collected from the public are being frozen, and money from our accounts is being taken away forcibly.
However, even under these most challenging circumstances, we…
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Former Justices Chelameswar & Joseph laid the groundwork for strengthening judicial independence by publicly refusing to accept any post-retirement jobs from the govt. This could become a valuable constitutional convention if all new retirees follow suit.
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Almost all senior lawyers I interned with as a student assumed a right to shout at/bully juniors or poor clients--but never at anyone powerful. All of them 'human rights' lawyers. Must be the caste system that ingrains this 'right' to utterly humiliate anyone less powerful.
To the sr lawyers posting
#MentalHealthMatters
how about we start with the legal profession?
@DrAMSinghvi
@LiveLawIndia
@barandbench
@wcla_india
1. The way seniors treat juniors 2. The way men speak to women 3. The way upper caste elites ridicule everyone else as incompetent +1
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Today, the Indian Supreme Court admitted my petition challenging the constitutionality of S 9(1) of Citizenship Act. Post-pandemic realities have forced me to apply for naturalisation in my country of domicile. But I won't let my Indian citizenship be terminated without a fight.
"The petition specifically addresses the disproportionate & involuntary termination of citizenship...compelling individuals to choose between their country of birth (Janmabhoomi) & the protections offered by their country of domicile (Karmabhoomi)."
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Indian Supreme Court cites my work on indirect discrimination with Hugh Collins in a case on sex discrimination in the army: Nitisha v Union [para 51]. 3rd judicial citation for this collection, following Canadian Supreme Ct & Ontario Ct of Appeals.
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@gautambhatia88
is one of the finest human beings. India and the world are a better place with him in it, doing what he does--fighting for justice everywhere.
In solidarity, Gautam!
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Very excited about joining
@BonaveroIHR
@OxfordLawFac
as its Head of Research later this year.
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Constitutional scholars who thoughtlessly include a pathological jurisdiction with a compromised apex court, designed-to-be-dysfunctional govt & a silly constitution in their comparative studies add to its unmerited outsized gravitational pull. Can we try ignoring it sometimes?
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We must strive to write more simply:
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Junior lawyers in India clearly need to organise. If safe to do so, consider tweeting how much you are/were paid in your first full-time job (with relevant year) as a junior. A public conversation on pay for junior lawyers is long overdue.
#JustPay
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Possible 2025 scenario:🧵
The newly reelected Modi govt refuses to extend the constitutional pause on decadal census-based constituency delimitation exercise expiring in 2026. Huge protests in Southern states, whose relative share in state power will nosedive. 1/5
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"आख़िर कब तक दुकानदार और चौकीदार हमारी लाशों पर सियासत करेंगे?"
An absolutely fantastic speech by
@asadowaisi
“कुर्सी है तुम्हारा कोई जनाजा तो नहीं, कुछ कर नहीं सकते, तो उतर क्यों नहीं जाते"
@asadowaisi
talks about Jaipur train hate crime, Manipur, Mewat Buldozer Injustice, Hijab, China, High Inflation & unemployment, Navy Officers in Qatar etc
#NoConfidenceMotion
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Has Vidhi released a draft of the new Constitution yet?
Dear
@bibekdebroy
Our Constitution was the result of the nation-building process. Baba Saheb Dr. Ambedkar supervised its making. Please, don't even dare to think of dismantling it. Don’t try to play with fire. Jal jaoge.
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Many of you are writing PhD research proposals this December. Read the excellent
@SundhyaPahuja
for practical tips on asking the right questions and crafting a sound scholarly proposal. Written for international lawyers, but useful for all legal scholars
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We are probably witnessing an anxious Court carefully calibrating its response to the regime's excesses, giving it a big win on the day of a big loss. May be worth paying attention to judgments of high political salience for the regime being released on the same day...
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Like
#Art370
,
#ElectoralBonds
case was legally easy but politically hard. Unlike
#Art370
, Indian SC has been brave to strike down anonymised political donations. Even so, its failure to grant interim stay 7 years ago means BJP can outspend the combined opposition many times over.
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Just published: My editorial reflections on scholactivism in
@ICON__S
journal, in which I give some instrumental reasons why scholars should reject scholactivism: *because*—rather than in spite—of our concern for justice:
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Perhaps Indian law schools should consider prioritising quality over quantity wrt project/course work. IMO a single (10k words) research paper written under proper supervision over the final year would have been worth many times the 60 papers I wrote during my UG degree.
@Adrienne_Stone1
@Dylan_Lino
@RonWLevy
1. This is a recommendation, not a bar.
2. Indian law school students have to produce 30-60 projects for their degree, each within 3-8 weeks!
3. Even desk rejects use v. scarce+unpaid editorial time, with zero gain for authors.
4. Properly researched articles remain very welcome.
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Here's how I feel about various ways I am addressed in emails:
- Tarun/Tarunabh (preferred)
- Prof Khaitan (fine)
- Mr Khaitan (irritating)
- Sir (am-not-a-knight)
- Prof Tarun (quaint)
- Darling (why-am-I-so-popular-with-hot-Russians?)
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When I first encouraged her to apply to
@OxfordLaw
, this young woman said she wasn't clever enough to get in. Well, she got in, crowd-sourced her funding, made the most of her year, and has now finished her degree with a distinction.
Congratulations
@surbhi_karwa
!
@surbhi_karwa
recieved distinction at
@UniofOxford
. So so proud and many congratulations 🎉❤️❤️❤️.
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The outcome was expected. That not one of its appointed guardians would stand up for the Constitution was not.
Cry, the beloved country.
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Awesome. Hope they win. And hope some folks in Delhi are taking notice:
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Many younger South Asian correspondents address me as 'sir'. I appreciate it is meant to show respect. But it reinforces unhelpful feudal hierarchies, esp when used by colleagues. I am very comfortable with 'Tarun' or 'Tarunabh'. 'Prof Khaitan' will also do, if you really must...
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Indian law undergraduates: your generous offers to assist with my research are lovely, but the best use of your time is to read something worthwhile, think about what you have read, and discuss it with peers. RA work will help you more during a postgraduate degree.
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Using Art 143 reference procedure to reopen an issue already settled by the Court fraudulently converts an advisory jurisdiction into an appellate one. If the President demeans her office by using it, SC should immediately decline to answer, as it did in Ismail Faruqui case(1994)
#BREAKING
President of Supreme Court Bar Association writes to President of India Droupadi Murmu that judgment of
#SupremeCourt
in
#ElectoralBonds
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When (increasingly rare) public officials are celebrated for simply doing their job in accordance with their oath of office, you know the system is in deep trouble.
Justice Nagarathna began 2023 with her terrific dissents in the demonetisation & the Ministers hate speech cases
And begins 2024 with a terrific judgement applying the law as it should be.
In these times, even straightforward application of the law must not be taken for granted
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5 privileged men will rewrite the entire substantive & procedural criminal law for 1.3 billion+ people in 6 months after cosmetic 'consultation'.
Be scared. Be very scared.
Act to
#DisbandtheCommittee
now!
#notthisway
@criminalreforms
@citizensspeakup
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New publication just out: "Political Parties in Constitutional Theory". If you don't have access and would like a PDF copy, please DM your email id.
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Oxygen wasn't enough to save his battered lungs. Ajoy, my most optimistic of friends! Happy, impulsive, generous. For one who easily believed good things will happen, to go so young is unfair. Tear-washed memories are the only solace for those of us left behind. Goodbye roomie...
Friend managed to access Oxygen. Deleted old tweet to not divert resources. thanks for retweeting. Have lost relatives, alma mater staff & acquaintances in last week. A dear prof is recovering, an old mentor fighting. I am one of the lucky ones in not losing someone too close yet
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Will be visiting
@UChicagoLaw
as Walter V. Schaefer Visiting Professor of Law in Spring 2022 (pandemic willing) to teach Comparative Constitutional Studies. Look forward to spending quality time with colleagues there, including
@tomginsburg
@aziz_huq
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Forced abortion because parents belong to different faiths: human cost of India's anti-miscegenation laws. I have no fury left. Does the regime have any shame left? Its trolls will deny the story. But there won't be any investigation. The laws will stay.
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Indian court denies access to a straw to a disabled elderly prisoner (in prison without conviction on trumped up political charges) that would enable him to drink liquids! Next time we invoke Gandhi or the Buddha or make claims to 'civilization', let us first die of shame.
Special NIA Court, Mumbai rejects the request of
#BhimaKoregaon
accused Father
#StanSwamy
asking for a warm clothes and sipper-straw for drinking liquids as he is suffering from Parkinson’s disease.
@NIA_India
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A power-broker--not holding public office--brags about a secretive military campaign by the state days before it happens. This is a constitutional nightmare: alongside state capture of media, we need to ask if the state itself has been captured by un-elected vested interests.
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Detailed analysis of how the Indian constitution has been eviscerated since 2014: Killing a Constitution with a Thousand Cuts: Executive Aggrandizement and Party State Fusion in India (free download):
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Editor's rant: why do manuscripts read like extended opinion pieces? Too much interest in law reform. Little effort to first explain what the law is & how it is in fact being practiced (esp outside the SC). With apologies to Dworkin, would like to see more descriptive analyses.
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Recall Nirbhaya, whose suffering shocked us a decade ago. Can you imagine Dr Singh—or *any* former PM—leading an orchestrated PR response with whataboutery regarding violence against women in Opposition ruled states?
That is how vile our politics has become under Modi’s decade.
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The regime and its many versatile geniuses...
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When the story of our times is told 200 years later, let no future human plead clemency on our behalf, saying 'We shouldn't apply our values to their times.'
In 2023, we know that mass murder of civilians as collective punishment is wrong. Judge us with the harshness we deserve.
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New paper on political parties in constitutional theory, just published by Current Legal Problems. I explain why representative democracy is impossible without parties & how constitutions can nurture a healthy party system. Happy to email pdf if needed:
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Many constitutions grant special standing rights before Constitutional Courts to opposition political parties or their representatives. Indian Supreme Court--normally indifferent to standing--refuses to stay demolition of homes *because* an opposition party brought the case!
Shaheen Bagh Demolitions| 'Can't Interfere At Political Party's Behest' : Supreme Court Dismisses CPI(M)'s Plea Challenging SDMC Action
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How does
@htTweets
know there are two separate opinions in a judgment that has not yet been publicly delivered? Leaks of draft judgments can seriously hurt the independence of the judiciary, as they can be used to pressurise judges to change their opinions.
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#RaceMeToo
: My coping strategies:
1 Keep a race diary. Always calling out is emotionally costly, doing nothing risks implosion.
2 Occasional humiliation is useful reminder of one’s privilege over those who have it worse.
3 Channel the rage constructively. & remember to laugh.
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Teaching Comparative Constitutional Law
@Harvard_Law
over the next five weeks. Do be in touch if you are in the area.
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The idea of India aspired to plurinationalism, rejected the historically homogenising European ideal of nationhood, sought a kinder country that could co-exist with multiple claims to loyalty. Even as a measure to judge our imperfect or insincere pursuit of it, it mattered.
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'We have made a fool of ourselves. Please give us a face-saver...'
'No.'
'Please? Pretty please?'
'No!'
'We order you to consider giving us a face-saver.'
[Do it now. Three days later will be even harder.]
[Breaking] 'My Statements Are Well Considered And Well Thought Of':Prashant Bhushan Declines SC's Offer To Reconsider His Contemptuous Statements,
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English fluency-with the 'right' accent-defines cultural capital in India: controls access to key opportunities; & intersects strongly with class, caste, gender. Excluded kids, even bright ones, are taught to fear it as an insurmountable barrier to a good life, & to self-respect.
Heartbreaking conversation with an Indian scholar:
Me: You are clearly very clever. Why not apply for phd at a top uni?
X: My English is very bad. Won't clear TOEFL.
His English was fine--lacked confidence, not skills.
@IDIALaw
-- how can we help?
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Prof Joseph Raz will be remembered for not only for his intellect & contributions to legal theory, but also for the grace with which he wore his greatness. Re-reading chs 14 & 15 of 'Morality of Freedom' is a good way to celebrate a life so well lived:
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The opportunity cost of this scholarly obsession with the US is that most of the other, often far-better-functioning, constitutions around the world barely get a look in.
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In
#EqualMarriage
case,
#IndianSupremeCourt
should surprise us by writing a single opinion (if unanimous) or two (if there is dissent) + ensure no opinion is longer than 50 pages. Overlong, ostentatious, multiple opinions tend to serve judicial egos & are bad for legal certainty.
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#MarriageEquality
was legally hard & politically hard. Strategic mistakes by the advocacy team were to blame, not judges.
#Art370
is politically hard but legally straightforward: a litmus test to determine the Court's commitment to democracy, legality & the Constitution.
On 11 December '23, the
#SupremeCourt
will pronounce the
#Judgement
in the challenge to the
#abrogation
of
#Article370
. Here’s your one-stop shop for all our coverage on the case.
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New students
@OxfordLawFac
: a voice in your head may soon whisper: "I'm not clever enough to belong here. They must've made a mistake."
Here's the secret: your peers are also feeling the same way. As
@MindyWishart
told some of you, you are here because "you're bloody brilliant!"
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Call for Proposals: Works-in-Progress Workshop: Comparative Constitutional Law in the Global South
@ColumbiaLaw
. Application deadline March 1, 2023.
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I know first hand the possibilities a scholarship can unlock. Having earned one amidst grave tragedy, I cannot comprehend what this last-minute denial must feel like.
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This is an increasingly familiar trope in the North: demanding racists & sexists be represented in the name of 'intellectual/political diversity'. Like so many bad ideas that originate here, it was bound to travel...
Arghya Sengupta writes that Victoria Gowri is “transparent about her politics” and “system needs more such diverse candidates”. I’m struggling to come to terms to the fact that someone actually wrote on a national daily that judiciary needs people displaying open bigotry.
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I feel like a cheetah mum leaving her adolescent cub so it can find its own way in the world. But institutions flourish only when individuals become dispensable.
@IndianLawReview
is in very safe hands. I'll remain grateful for the team's collegiality, committment & selfless toil.
As we prepare to bid farewell to our founding general editor Dr
@tarunkhaitan
, we look back fondly at his six-year term at ILR. We deeply and warmly thank Tarun for his many years of hard work, commitment and dedication to ILR. Please join us in saying goodbye to him!
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Legitimacy of judicial review is a side show that has gone on for far too long (because lawyers still dominate the discipline). Constitutional Studies must divert its scholarly gaze to:
(i) the climate crisis,
(ii) material inequality, &
(iii) political party-state relations.
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Justice Muralidhar ‘has been’ a HC judge for five years. There is no requirement that the appointee must currently be a HC judge. He is also a distinguished jurist, one of our most distinguished. There is *no* reason u/ article 124 why he cannot still be appointed to the SC.
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One of the worst, but all-too-common, tropes of Indian legal writing that I notice as an editor is:
(i) Take an Indian problem
(ii) Find the American 'parallel'
(iii) Apply. Apply. Apply.
(iv) Citing Indian scholarship on the matter optional.
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I am thrilled to be joining the fellowship
@MansfieldOxford
when I begin my role as Head of Research
@BonaveroIHR
in July 2021. Its progressive & welcoming ethos would be an excellent fit and I eagerly look forward to this new relationship.
@mansfieldcollege
is delighted to announce that from 1 July 2020, renowned lawyer Professor
@tarunkhaitan
will become a member of our Governing Body, upon taking up his post as Research Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. More details here:
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Cited by the Canadian Supreme Court several times in this case. Will find out after reading the case whether for the right cause or not! Many thanks to
@mikepalcanada
for letting me know...
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Will be offering a new graduate option on "Constitutionalism in Asia" for BCL/MJur students
@OxfordLawFac
, with Prof Ngoc Son Bui. Check it out.
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Because we all can do with a reminder sometimes:
The Places of Worship Act is clear - by opening up gyaanvapi the SC is basically throwing out the rule of law and creating jurisprudence based on majoritarian sentiment.
That isn’t, never was and shouldn’t ever be their job.
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@SwatiJhaveri
&
@DineshaSam
are the best co-editors one could have, combining intellect & excellence with grace & benevolence. Swati Jhaveri did most of the editorial heavy-lifting. 'Constitutional Resilience in South Asia' is now available for pre-order:
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Heartbreaking conversation with an Indian scholar:
Me: You are clearly very clever. Why not apply for phd at a top uni?
X: My English is very bad. Won't clear TOEFL.
His English was fine--lacked confidence, not skills.
@IDIALaw
-- how can we help?
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This has to become a norm—cops who fail to show reasonable legal grounds for an arrest must be made to compensate the victim out of their pocket. If the arrest is malicious, criminal prosecution of the officers must also follow.
"Police officers cannot be law unto themselves."
Delhi HC awards ₹50,000 compensation to a man who was illegally detained by the Delhi Police for half an hour.
Compensation to be recovered from the salaries of police officers who detained the man.
#DelhiHighCourt
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Constitutional Lawyers: What (legal or conventional) norms govern public & private interactions between members of the political executive and the higher judiciary in your jurisdiction?
PS: the image below is a photo of India's Prime Minister with the judges of its Supreme Court
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Where Dushyant Dave tells the Emperor he has no clothes:
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What is an 'area of law'? How do new areas of law--food law (say)--come about? How to theorise areas of law? Here are 2 sister papers in special jurisprudence (published in OJLS & Legal Theory) to answer these & other questions:
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Comparative constitutional scholars: Are there constitutional norms/conventions anywhere governing unofficial interactions b/w members of the higher Executive and senior judges? Any reason why democracies should not forbid unminuted private interactions b/w the two.
#WATCH
| Delhi: CJI DY Chandrachud says, "I have been associated with AYUSH since covid broke. I had a really bad attack with covid and the Prime Minister called me up and said, 'I believe that you are down with Covid and I hope everything is fine. I realize that you are not in…
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1. PM the institution ≠ PM the person.
2. Constitution permits citizens to disrespect either/ both.
"It is the duty of the citizens to respect the Prime Minister of India:" Kerala High Court
@PMOIndia
#keralahighcourt
Read more here:
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Very pleased to have another piece find favour with the Indian Supreme Court in a new judgement [para 102]:
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India's anti-miscegenation law is working as it was meant to...
Even as the Hindu bride said she as an adult had consensually married, the man was arrested after members of the Bajrang Dal prevented him from registering his marriage.
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Treat this recent piece by Debroy as the regime’s cue for full-on constitutional replacement. Last 9 years’ strategy of incremental 1000 cuts was very successful, but is now exhausted.
Expect growing chorus of bhakts chanting the Big Lie: “Ambedkar’s-Constitution-is-Colonial”
Dear
@bibekdebroy
Our Constitution was the result of the nation-building process. Baba Saheb Dr. Ambedkar supervised its making. Please, don't even dare to think of dismantling it. Don’t try to play with fire. Jal jaoge.
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Renewed effort w/
@ShashiTharoor
for anti-discrimination law. He presented the union bill I helped draft to Lok Sabha in 2017 w/o success. Hope Kerala will become 1st Indian state to enact a comprehensive antidiscrimination law for public + private sector.
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Can an economist help law scholars calculate the opportunity cost of writing yet-another-article on the legitimacy of judicial review & the correct approach to judicial interpretation?
Do these topics really deserve all the collective attention & brilliance of our discipline?
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Is anyone editing a collected works of PK Tripathi? He is easily one of the best scholars of Indian constitutional law. A crying shame his work is so little known. A republication of his works will enrich the discipline immensely.
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Infamous legal moralist Lord Devlin-while opposing Wolfenden committee’s claim that private sexual acts b/w consenting adults were not law’s business-was sexually assaulting his little daughter at home. She speaks out at the age of 81.
#HartDevlinDebate
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A government gets its appointed chair to deem controversial bills passed by a 'voice vote' in the upper house. No actual counting of votes. Legislative numbers rendered irrelevant. This isn't one of the thousand cuts. This is an axe blow to our democracy.
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Should comparative constitutional scholars care about political parties? Download the introduction to a forthcoming edited volume with
@tomginsburg
& Aziz Huq on 'The Comparative Constitutional Design of Elections, Parties and Voting' (
@CUP_Law
2024):
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A book👇🏾that should be read by many more people than it has been. It provides the most attractive--and, dare I say, radical--conception of liberalism imo (albeit written in rather turgid prose). It absolutely will not entertain you, but--if you persist--will certainly educate.
love that feeling of coming back to a great book and finding even more than the last time
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India≠the Indian government
India≠the Indian Prime Minister
India≠its ruling party
India≠two plutocrats
India≠any of its many religions
Criticising any of the latter is not criticism of India, it is a service to India.
#TheIdeaOfIndia
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Very grateful to
@unimelb
for the honour,
@OxfordLawFac
&
@wadhamoxford
where I wrote the book,
@OUPLaw
for publishing it, and to numerous colleagues, friends & reviewers for their inputs. Reviews of the book are available here:
We are delighted to announce Associate Professor
@tarunkhaitan
has been awarded the 2019 Woodward Medal in Humanities and Social Sciences for his 2015 monograph ‘A Theory of Discrimination Law’. Congratulations Tarun!
@OUPLaw
@wadhamoxford
@OxfordLawFac
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Great thread ⬇️on the joys of the Special Marriage Act. Why hasn't some entrepreneurial law student challenged its public notice provisions under the right to privacy yet?
I don't want anybody to take my tweets about special marriage act and queer marriage to think i am against queer marriage
Im going to explain how it is to get married under the special marriage act regime in India
Suppose Fahadh Faasil wants to marry me. How will it happen.
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