Commercial Courts In India: Three Puzzles For Legal System Reform
September 2, 2020
In this paper published by the Journal of Indian Law and Society, Dr Sudhir Krishnaswamy…
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Sudhir is a co-founder and trustee of CLPR. He is currently the Vice-Chancellor of National Law School of India University(NLSIU), Bengaluru. Previously he was a professor at the Azim Premji University. He was also the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Visiting Professor of Indian Constitutional Law at Columbia Law School.
He graduated from the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore (B.A. LL.B). He read the BCL and obtained a D.Phil. from Oxford University. He has been a Teaching Fellow in Law at the Pembroke College at Oxford University, an Assistant Professor at NLSIU and a Professor at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata.
In the past, Sudhir has also worked in the Prime Minister’s Committee on Infrastructure and the Kasturirangan Committee on Governance of Bangalore. He has authored a book titled ‘Democracy and Constitutionalism in India’ which was published by the Oxford University Press in 2009.
His main areas of interest are constitutional law, legal education, legal theory, intellectual property law and administrative law.
Publications
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Is the Indian Constitution Liberal?
July 3, 2019
In this essay, Prof. Sudhir Krishnaswamy asks if liberalism is a key value embedded in India’s Constitution. He shows that it was not keenly discussed in the constitution making process or integrated in Supreme Court decisions. Moreover, a brief summary of debates in comparative constitutional design confirms that liberalism is rarely expressly embedded in a constitutional text.
Open PDFThePrint asks: CJI Gogoi’s no leave formula for judges: Fighting backlog in courts or mere rhetoric?
October 12, 2018
Sudhir Krishnaswamy argues that the no leave policy for judges is a partial and incomplete way to understand delay and congestion in the court system. He puts forth three ways in which this problem could be tackled.
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The Philosophy and Law of Information Regulation in India | Call for Papers
August 17, 2020
We invite multi-disciplinary submissions from fields of law, history of science, science and technology studies, informatics and information sciences, political and economic philosophy, design studies, and other related fields to reflect on the relationship between law, technology and information, with specific reference to the institutions of public law in India.
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July 1, 2015
The Constitutional and Civic Citizenship Project seeks to enhance public awareness and critical engagement with…
Read moreProf. Moog’s Talk on Consumer Courts and Access to Justice
June 13, 2013
On 5th of June, 2013, Robert Moog presented a paper titled “India’s Consumer Forums: Access and Justice for…
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