Justice Lalit, who serves as a Distinguished Jurist Professor at HNLU, will speak on the topic Law & Ethics in an Era of Artificial Intelligence: The Gandhian Perspective.
This, he said, has led to "quotational jurisprudence" where judgments delivered by different courts including the High Courts and trial courts are studded with “quotations".
The former CJI said that the use of the provision in a cavalier manner, otherwise meant for emergency situations, was not fit for a democracy governed by the rule of law and was disturbing.
Justice U.U. Lalit will be teaching the course, “Affirmative Action under the Constitution of India” to the postgraduate and undergraduate students of Jindal Global Law School.
He also said that as a judge of a Court, which upholds Constitution and which had upheld the Collegium system, he was obliged to work under that system.
In November 2017, a bench of Justices RF Nariman (now retired) and SK Kaul had struck down Section 45(1) of the PMLA insofar as it imposed two additional conditions for release on bail.
"Collegium is established norm and his (Law Minister's) comments are his personal opinion. The collegium system has got the approval of a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court," he said.
Justice Lalit said that Justice Chandrachud, who had made oral remarks on October 14 against listing case on Saturday, never said anything about that when CJI Lalit asked him whether he would be part ...