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The nationwide recruitment freeze is not just an administrative failure; it stands in direct defiance of two decades of settled Supreme Court jurisprudence.

The Constitution permits unelected individuals to be appointed as ministers, but only as a temporary exception that cannot be renewed through reappointment.

The remedy does not lie in denying bail to the powerful; it lies in extending, with equal energy, the same solicitude to the ordinary undertrial.

Justice Ujjal Bhuyan is emerging as one of the more outspoken voices on the Bench of the Supreme Court of India.

The settled principles of Indian trade secret law were not designed for generative AI.

The fix is not to abandon publishing, but to stop treating it as a substitute for practical competence.

The sedition trials that Bal Gangadhar Tilak faced and the imprisonments he endured, greatly contributed to India attaining freedom in the next three decades.

A reform intended to strengthen the legal profession should facilitate access to it, not make entry into the profession more unaffordable.

Recently, there were several reported incidents of detention of protesting students without formal arrest across several police stations in the country.

The book brings together contributions from judges, scholars and practitioners to examine the evolution of Indian constitutionalism.