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Appointment of judges to the Supreme Court of India : Transparency, accountability, and independence / edited by Arghya Sengupta, Ritwika Sharma ; foreword by Justice Jasti Chelameswar. - First edition. - xxiv, 299 pages ; 23 cm

Contributed articles.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents
Foreword by Justice Jasti Chelameswar
Introduction

PART I THE HISTORY OF JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS IN INDIA
I. From Kania to Sarkaria: Judical Appointments from 1950 to 1973
Suchindran B.N.
2. A Committed Judiciary: Indira Gandhi and Judicial Appointments
T.R. Andhyarujina
3. Recovering Lost Ground: The Case of the Curious Eighties
A.K. Ganguli
4. The Judicial Collegium: Issues, Controversies and the Road Ahead
Arun Jaitley
5. A Plague on Both Your Houses: NJAC and the Crisis of Trust
Pratap Bhanu Mehta

PART II THE ANALYSIS OF THE NJAC JUDGMENT
6. Judicial Review and Parliamentary Power: Reorienting the Balance
K.T. Thomas
7. Checks and Balances Revisited: The Role of the Executive in Judicial Appointments
Mukul Rohatgi
8. Opening up Appointments: Civil Society Participation in the NJAC
Madhavi Divan
9. The Obvious Foundation Test: Re-inventing the Basic Structure Doctrine
Raju Ramachandran and Mythili Vijay Kumar Thallam
10. Eight Fatal Flaws: The Failings of the National Judicial Appointments Commission
Arvind Datar
11. The Sole Route to an Independent Judiciary?: The Primacy of Judges in Appointment
Gautam Bhatia
12. Justice Lokur's Concurring View: The Future of Appointments Reform
Alok Prasanna Kumar
13. Justice Chelameswar's Dissent: Reforming to Preserve
Arghya Sengupta
14. The NJAC Case and Judicial Independence: Conceptual and Contextual Safeguards
Gopal Subramanium

PART III COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
15. Comparative Law in the NJAC Judgment: A Missed Opportunity
Suhrith Parthasarathy
16. Judicialisation of Judicial Appointments?: A Response from the United Kingdom
Chintan Chandrachud
17. South Africa: Analysing a Commission Model
Chris McConnachie
18. Appointments to the Supreme Court of Canada: Procedures and Controversies
Peter McCormick
19. Judicial Appointments in Pakistan: The Seminal Case of the 18th Amendment
Sameer Khosa
20. Judicial Appointments in Sri Lanka: A Politicised Trajectory
Rehan Abeyratne
21. Appointments to the Supreme Court of Nepal: A New Beginning
Semanta Dahal

Index

ISBN: 9780199485079 0199485070

Source: Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office

LCCN: 2017353573

Subjects--Corporate Names:
India. Supreme Court.
National Judicial Appointments Commission.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Judges--Selection and appointment--India.

LC Class. No.: KNS3497 / .A97 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 347.014 SEN