Table Of Contents:
PART I : Working the Constitution
V.R. Krishna Iyer: The Noble Preamble: We have Promises to Keep
Upendra Baxi: Violence, Constitutionalism and Struggle: Or How to Avoid Being a Mahamoorkha!
S.P. Sathe: Civil Society and Liberty, Equality and Justice: Percolation of Values to the Grassroots: Some Concerns
Mahendra P. Singh: Statics and Dynamics of Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles-A Human Rights Perspective
Venkat Iyer: Freedom of Information: Some Lessons from the Commonwealth
Clark D. Cunningham: The World's Most Powerful Court: Finding the Roots of India's Public Interest Litigation Revolution in the Hussainara Khatoon Prisoners Case
Z.M. Yacoob: Some Debates Central to the Making of the Constitution of South Africa
Teesta Setalvad: Hate Speech and Indian Democracy
PART II : Bringing Equality Through Affirmative Action
Margaret Thornton: Neo-Liberalism, Discrimination and the Politics of Ressentiment
Asha Bajpai: Child Rights: Struggles for a New Social Order
Sathya Narayan: A Worn Out Manifesto: For the Disabled in India
Alice Jacob: Protection of Older Persons in the Third Millennium: Legal and Policy Dimensions
Jaya Sagade: Raising Female Age at Marriage: Socio-Legal Constraints and Strategies
Werner Menski: Hindu Law in Modern India: Can the Duty not to Talk about Dharma be Conducive to Justice?
PART III : Environment and the People
Anupa V. Thapliyal: Environment and the Law: Effectiveness of Legal Sanctions
C.M. Jariwala: The Changing Dimension of the Right to Environment in India
Sanjay Sangvai: The New Politics of Environmental Socialism
Donald L. Burnett, Jr.: The Law-and-Economics Movement: Can it Illuminate India's Environmental Issues?
PART IV : Human Rights
Clarence J. Dias: Towards International Human Rights Crimes: Some Asian Concerns and Perspectives
Rebecca J. Cook: Celebrating Vishaka: Judicial Enforcement of Women's Human Rights
Vaijayanti Joshi: Consent in Man-Woman Relations: Law and Patriarchy: Some Examples
Subject Index