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The shifting scales of justice : The supreme court in neo-liberal India

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New Delhi Orient Blackswan 2014Description: 199p xvISBN:
  • 9788125054320 8125054324.
  • 8125054324.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 347.732600 SUR
Contents:
Contents: Acknowledgements. Preface/Upendra Baxi. Introduction/Mayur Suresh and Siddharth Narrain; 1. Embedded Judiciary: Or the Judicial State of Exception?/Aditya Nigam; 2. In the Name of the People: The Expansion of Judicial Power/Usha Ramanathan; 3. Environment and the Will to Rule: Supreme Court and Public Interest Litigation in the 1990s/Nivedita Menon; 4. Fundamental Rights and Public Interest Litigation in India: Overreaching or Underachieving?/Varun Gauri; 5. Social Justice and the Supreme Court/Sudhir Krishnaswamy and Madhav Khosla; 6. Swallowing a Bitter PIL?: Reflections on Progressive Strategies for Public Interest Litigation in India/Arun K. Thiruvengadam; 7. A Meandering Jurisprudence of the Court: The Evolving Case Law Related to Water/Philippe Cullet; 8. The Judicial Nineties: Of Politics, Power and Dissent/Ujjwal Kumar Singh; Index.
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Contents:
Acknowledgements. Preface/Upendra Baxi. Introduction/Mayur Suresh and Siddharth Narrain;
1. Embedded Judiciary: Or the Judicial State of Exception?/Aditya Nigam;
2. In the Name of the People: The Expansion of Judicial Power/Usha Ramanathan;
3. Environment and the Will to Rule: Supreme Court and Public Interest Litigation in the 1990s/Nivedita Menon;
4. Fundamental Rights and Public Interest Litigation in India: Overreaching or Underachieving?/Varun Gauri; 5. Social Justice and the Supreme Court/Sudhir Krishnaswamy and Madhav Khosla;
6. Swallowing a Bitter PIL?: Reflections on Progressive Strategies for Public Interest Litigation in India/Arun K. Thiruvengadam;
7. A Meandering Jurisprudence of the Court: The Evolving Case Law Related to Water/Philippe Cullet;
8. The Judicial Nineties: Of Politics, Power and Dissent/Ujjwal Kumar Singh;
Index.

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